Opinion
For decades, women have fought the hierarchy that characterizes patriarchy, which is maintained by obedient norms and structures. While obedience has been challenged in more …
For the first time, an international legal instrument on nuclear weapons recognizes the disproportionate impact on both women and indigenous people.
Courage is needed to seek and introduce women’s perspectives in disarmament since such revision will alter how arms control is perceived and developed.
Critically, the modernization of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)- counter opposing forces designed to destroy incoming missiles- poses a further destabilising threat to strategic stability.
Whilst key individuals and groups of women have had tremendous impact around the world there is still a disproportionate lack of female representation within society
The Ban Treaty now outlaws nuclear weapons. What now for nuclear armed states and other non-signatories?
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW or …
Even though the world’s big nuclear weapons states today did not adopt it, the TPNW is going to change the conversation on nuclear weapons, how …
2020 marks the 25th anniversary from the Beijing Declaration, which promoted the most visionary agenda in terms of gender equality in many areas, including …
Women and Conflict
How peacebuilding efforts can benefit us ALLSexual violence is continually used as a tool to harm and humiliate women; it’s reported that 50,000 …
Disarmament that Saves Lives
Opportunities and Challenges drawn from the Panel Discussion, “Building on the Secretary General’s Disarmament Agenda”
Dan PleschDirector, CISD SOAS
Relevance of the Secretary-General’s Agenda …
In considering denuclearizing the DPRK and efforts to address the Iranian situation and the JCPOA, steps can be taken to strengthen security in the regions …
Even when broken down into statistics, the humanitarian toll is sobering. With 10,000 civilians dead, 22 million in need of aid, 8 million subjected to …
Comparisons are often made between the regulation of cyber and nuclear weapons. This analogy, however, is severely limited – particularly in relation to disarmament – …
Former SCRAP Project Manager David Franco shares his experience with the project. Franco is a alumnus of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at …
It’s been 73 years this week since the United States detonated atomic bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during the final …
A network of global institutions were created in 1945 to try and avert another global conflict. They have been gradually undermined over the last 20 …
Fear of war looms in the background of the latest round of presidential meetings. At a time when Stanley Kubrick’s General Jack D. Ripper in …
Reconciling National Security With General and Complete Disarmament
SCRAP was recently mentioned in a new paper by Marc Finaud, an expert from the Geneva Centre for Security …
40 Acts to Save the World : Secretary-General’s Agenda for Disarmament
WATCH: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres introduces his disarmament agenda.
We’ve summarised the Securing Our Common Future: An …
UN Secretary General Disarmament Report: A Comprehensive Agenda for Disarmament
On 24th May, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres released his new agenda for general and …
The world is currently inching towards a precipice. North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have put Asian security in a precarious position and it risks dragging in …
It comes with little surprise that the nuclear disarmament agenda is heavily supported by multilateral institutions and member states that are non-nuclear. Getting nuclear-armed states …
Twenty years ago, the US Air Force began to develop the next generation of fighter aircraft aimed at securing total air superiority. The F-22 Raptor …