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One Year On: Global Governance and Human Security in Post-Quake Haiti
On 12 January 2010, Haiti suffered literal state collapse, as thousands of buildings crumbled in the 21st century’s deadliest earthquake. Over 200,000 were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.5 million...
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Diplomatic Epistemology: Debating the Existence of Objective Knowledge at the...
For the rest of this month, I will be following closely the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) negotiations at the UN building here in New York City. Today Global Policy’s online “Comment and Opinion” column...
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A Drafty Treaty? The Holes in the Draft Arms Trade Treaty
Yesterday morning the chair of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) diplomatic conference released the his long-awaited draft of an international instrument to regulate the trade in conventional weapons....
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Arms Trade Treaty: A Victory for African States, Civil Society and Faith Groups
In a landslide UN General Assembly vote last week, representatives of the world’s governments endorsed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which will control the global traffic in conventional weapons,...
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Breaking News: US Signs the Arms Trade Treaty!
BREAKING: Secretary of State John Kerry signs the UN #ArmsTreaty #ATT pic.twitter.com/rDGWX9TzQJ via @HayesBrown — Arms Control Assoc (@armscontrolnow) September 25, 2013 US Secretary of State John...
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My Statement on Disarmament on Behalf of Global Civil Society Organizations...
Dr. Matthew Bolton, assistant professor of political science in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University New York, presenting a statement on disarmament at the UN General Assembly’s...
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Taking a Stand Against Gender Discrimination in Disarmament Policymaking
Last week, I attended the discussions on fully-autonomous weapons (“Killer Robots”) at the UN in Geneva as a representative of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC). The...
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Killer Robots Remain on UN Agenda
At a meeting of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN in Geneva, states agreed to keep autonomous weapons systems — “killer robots” — on the agenda for the coming year. States...
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My Statement for the International Committee for Robot Arms Control at the UN...
On 17 April, I delivered the closing statement for the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Informal Meeting of Experts at the...
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No New Information on the Consequences of Nuclear Weapons?
Deconstructing Nuclear Discourse at the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference Adapted and republished from a version published in NPT News in Review. Many diplomatic discussions of...
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