Briefing 11-2 Author John Siebert The NATO implementation of a no-fly zone to protect Libyan civilians, which began on March 19, has now explicitly morphed into regime change by bombing …
Since We Can’t Beat the Taliban, Focus on Reconciliation
Author Ernie Regehr Published by The Globe and Mail online If Canada’s newly announced post-2011 military mission in Afghanistan is to amount to more than training Afghan forces for perpetual …
NATO Misses Another Opportunity
Author Ernie Regehr Published by Embassy, an Ottawa-based foreign policy weekly NATO foreign ministers met in Estonia last month, and the opportunity they missed was for a serious rethink of …
NATO’s Nuclear Declarations
Author Ernie Regehr The Ploughshares Monitor Spring 2010 Volume 31 Issue 1 NATO’s current nuclear declarations are at serious odds with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and with the reinvigorated global …
Practical Steps to Zero Nuclear Weapons: Conference Report
Sponsored by the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the Canadian Pugwash Group, Physicians for Global Survival, Project Ploughshares and World Federalist Movement Canada, the report outlines recommendations made during …
NATO’s Strategic Concept, the NPT and Global Zero
Briefing 10-1 Author Ernie Regehr At the 2009 NATO Summit in Strasbourg/Kehl the Alliance Secretary-General was asked to develop a new Strategic Concept. Member Governments called for a participatory review …
Harper Government Missing on Non-Proliferation
Authors Ernie Regehr and Douglas Roche Published by Embassy, an Ottawa-based foreign policy weekly Retired senator Douglas Roche is Canada’s former ambassador for disarmament High-ranking officials of the US State …
World Council of Churches Calls on NATO Leaders to Address Nuclear Policy (2)
Follow-up letter to the leaders of NATO and of the European Union concerning NATO nuclear policy and its current strategic review from the councils that represent churches across the member …
Statement of Hope in a Year of Opportunity: Seeking a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
World Council of Churches, Central Committee 26 August – 2 September 2009 Geneva, Switzerland “The production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against …
Our Nuclear Ambivalence Must End
Author Ernie Regehr Published by the Waterloo Region Record Canada had more than a front row seat at the dawn of the nuclear age. As part of the Manhattan Project, …