In collaboration with ILPI, this publication is the third of the five thematic briefing papers produced for the April-May 2015 five-yearly review meeting of the NPT.
Opinion piece for the NZ Herald, from the five-yearly Review Conference of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), at the United Nations headquarters in New York in 2015.
This paper examines recent international policy discourse concerning new initiatives on nuclear disarmament that draw primarily from, or are influenced by, humanitarian concerns..
This paper considers the relevance of viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens—along with some criticisms of it—with a view to informing contemporary policy debate.
In this publication, Robert Green, DSC Co-Director, suggests the need for a reframing of the security paradigm surrounding nuclear weapons from a discriminatory system based on nuclear deterrence to..
The funding of international nuclear risk mitigation is ad hoc, voluntary, and unpredictable, offering no transparent explanation of who is financially responsible for the task or why. Among many..
This publication contains brief papers prepared by UNIDIR as background information for delegates in the Conference on Disarmament’s series of thematic debates during 2012.
This paper examines the notion of catastrophic humanitarian consequences and the origins of similar expressions as orienting concepts in the context of use of WMD in particular.
When David Krieger invited me to give this lecture, I discovered the illustrious list of those who had gone before me – beginning with Frank King Kelly himself in 2002. I was privileged to meet him...
