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Last revised:
Friday May 29, 2009
What's New?
Good
Faith Negotiations Leading to the Total Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons: Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International
Court of Justice, International Association of
Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, International Human Rights Clinic
at Harvard Law School, May 2009
Press release
Groups
Seek World Court Opinion on Nukes, Thalif Deen, IPS, May
11, 2009
Good
Faith, International Law, and Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons, May 1, 2008 Conference, Geneva
Judge
Mohammed Bedjaoui, Keynote Address, May 1, 2008,
Geneva
Peter
Weiss, Remarks on Judge Bedjaoui’s Keynote Address
Professor
Karima Bennoune, The Intersection of Nuclear
Weapons and International Human Rights Law
Professor
Marcelo Kohen, Remarks
Good
Faith: A Fundamental Principle of International
Law, John Burroughs, News
in Review, Final Edition, No. 9, 28 April –
9 May 2008
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North
Korea Test a Setback to Nuke-Free World, Thalif Deen,
IPS, May 27, 2009
No
Nuclear Weapons. Why Not?, Peter Weiss and
Elizabeth J. Shafer, NY Times Letter, May 2009
2009
NPT Preparatory Committee
NGO
Presentations Introduction, Peter Weiss
Steps
Toward a Safer World, John Hallam, John Burroughs and Marcy
Fowler
The
Imperative of Good Faith, John Burroughs, Elizabeth Shafer,
Phon van den Biesen, and John Loretz
News
in Review, NGO daily reports
Judge
Weeramantry, Response to President Obama’s Prague speech: bridging
the vision and the corridors of power, April 20, 2009
Nuclear
Abolition, Climate Protection, and Our Cities' Future:
Conference Report, April 2009
Letter
from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Judge Weeramantry,
President of International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear
Arms (LCNP's international body), February 9, 2009
Letter
from Judge Weeramantry to the Secretary-General, November
25, 2008
UN
Secretary-General address, October 24, 2008, to East-West
Institute conference, “The United Nations and Security
in a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World”
The
Trident and International Law: Scotland's Obligations,
Judge Christopher Weeramantry, Edinburgh, February 3, 2009
Recent
Developments in the Illegality of Nuclear Weapons, John
Burroughs, Edinburgh, February 3, 2009
Nuclear
Free Obligations and Trident II, Anabel Dwyer, February
26, 2009, Seattle
A
Global Public Good of the Highest Order, Middle Powers
Initiative Briefing Paper for the Berlin Article VI Forum, January
2009
The Challenges of Security in a World without Nuclear Weapons, John Burroughs, January 16, 2009
Sean
MacBride Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Jacqueline Cabasso,
annual seminar of the International
Peace Bureau, November 14, 2008, Copenhagen
Press
release
First Committee Monitor, November 2008, reporting on UN General Assembly deliberations on disarmament and security, edited by Reaching Critical Will;
Resolution on follow-up to the International Court of Justice opinion on nuclear weapons, Marcy Fowler
Nuclear
fastball: Palin, Biden strike out, John Burroughs, DisarmamentActivist.org,
October 6, 2008 - commentary on vice-presidential debate question:
Should nuclear weapons use ever be put into play?
The
Legal and Policy Imperatives for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons,
Statement of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, July
2008
Ending U.S. Reliance
on Nuclear Weapons and Achieving Their Global Elimination: Wise
Policy and Required by Law, Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear
Policy, March 2008
Think
Globally / Act Locally: Working with Your Mayor of the Abolition
of Nuclear Weapons and Other Peace and Justice Issues, November
2008
US Conference of Mayors
Adopts Resolution for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons by 2020,
June 23, 2008
2020
Vision Aimed at Dismantling Nukes, Thalif Deen, June 26,
2008, IPS
US Member Cities, Mayors
for Peace, November 1, 2008
Updated
Model Convention Prohibiting and Eliminating Nuclear Weapons,
2007
Securing Our
Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, 2007
Background and Resources
Nuclear
Disorder or Cooperative Security? An Assessment of the
Final Report of the WMD Commission and Its Implications for
U.S. Policy, May 2007
ONLINE
EDITION NOW AVAILABLE, July 2008
Book
Review, Natalie J. Goldring, INESAP Information Bulletin
28, April 2008, p.92
The WMD
Commission One Year Later: Impact and Assessment, John Burroughs,
Disarmament Diplomacy, summer 2007
About the Book
Order
Print Edition
Executive
Summary
Recommendations
World Court Project to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons: Return to the International Court of
Justice on the Nuclear Disarmament Obligation
Good Faith Negotiation
of Nuclear Disarmament, Elizabeth Shafer, January 2008
Debating
Disarmament: Interpreting Article VI of the NPT, Nonproliferation
Review briefing, November 29, 2007, with Christopher Ford, Nabil
Fahmy, and John Burroughs
Six
Reasons Why Nuclear Weapons Are More Dangerous Than Ever,
Peter Weiss, American University International Law Review, 2007
Controlling
the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Michael Spies, Disarmament Times,
Spring 2008, p.1
The
best U.S. weapon against Iran is diplomacy, John
Burroughs, September 26, 2007, Newsday op-ed
US/Iran
Confrontation: Intensified Diplomacy and Adherence to International
Law, Middle Powers Initiative Statement, September 20, 2007
Iran
and The Limits of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime,
Michael Spies, American University International Law Review,
2007
More Iran resources...
War
and Occupation in Iraq, Global Policy Forum, June 2007,
co-sponsored by LCNP
U.S.
Nuclear Hypocrisy and the Iraq War (audio), written,
Citizens' Hearing on the
Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq, John Burroughs, January
21, 2007
The UN Charter and the
Iraq War, Peter Weiss, May 8, 2004, World Tribunal on Iraq,
New York session
Jus ad Bellum: Law Regulating Resort to Force, Nicole Deller
and John Burroughs, Human Rights, Winter 2003
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Good
Faith: A Fundamental Principle of International
Law, John Burroughs, News
in Review, Final Edition, No. 9, 28 April –
9 May 2008
Trial
of the Ground Zero Three, Port Orchard,
Washington, January 2007
From
Auschwitz to Trident (YouTube), John Burroughs,
Seattle Town Hall, January 20, 2007 (slides)
The
Legal Framework for Non-Use and Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons, Briefing Paper for Greenpeace International,
John Burroughs, February 2006
Legal
Requirements to Achieve Non-Proliferation and Disarmament,
John Burroughs, Article VI Forum, The Hague, March
2, 2006
Thirteen
Practical Steps: Legal or Political?, Peter
Weiss, John Burroughs, Michael Spies, May 2005
Fundamental
Legal Obligations Regarding Nuclear Weapons,
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, May 2007
LCNP
Statement on Replacement of the UK Trident System,
March 2007
Peacerights
legal opinion on the replacement of the UK Trident,
March 6, 2007
Law School Readings
on Nuclear Weapons, Iraq War
Weapons
of Mass Destruction and Human Rights, Peter Weiss and John
Burroughs, Disarmament Forum, July 2004 |
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Nuclear
Disarmament Campaign, United for Peace and Justice To
join the UFPJ nuclear disarmament/redefining security working
group, send a blank email to ufpj-disarm-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Newsletters:
IALANA
News May 2009
Bombs
Away! and eNews issues
Books:
Nuclear
Disorder or Cooperative Security? An Assessment of the
Final Report of the WMD Commission and Its Implications for
U.S. Policy, May 2007
Securing
Our Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention,
2007
Rule
of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and
Actions Regarding Security- Related Treaties, 2003
Executive Summary
Armageddon
or Brave New World? Reflections on the Hostilities in Iraq,
Judge Weeramantry, 2nd ed. 2005
The
World Court in Action: Judging Among the Nations, Howard
Meyer, 2002
This
Is My Homeland: Stories of the effects of nuclear
industries by the People of the Serpent River First Nation and
the north shore of Lake Huron,
2003
The
Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the
Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice,
John Burroughs, 1997
Nuclear
Weapons and International Law in the Post Cold War World,
Charles J. Moxley, Jr., 2000
Warfare or Welfare? Disarmament for Development in the 21st Century, Colin Archer, 2005
Beyond
Hiroshima, Douglas Roche, 2005
No
Time to Kill, Bruce A. Roth, 2007
Blogs:
Disarmament
Activist
Arms Control Wonk
Los Alamos Disarmament
Center
Russian Forces
Strategic Security Project
Links:
Learn
About Nuclear Weapons
ArmsControlReporter
Global Action to Prevent
War
Middle Powers Initiative
Parliamentarians
for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Disarmament
Mayors
for Peace
Western States Legal Foundation
WMDreport.org
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
NuclearFreeFuture.org
Campaign for a
Nuclear Weapons Free World
Daisy Alliance
Other
Websites of interest
Hague
Appeal for Peace
LCNP's parent body IALANA, in coalition with other organizations
in 1999, initiated the Hague Appeal for Peace, a global call
to enter the 21st Century with a firm program for the abolition
of war. The Global
Campaign for Peace Education (subscribe to newsletter here)
was created by the Hague Appeal for Peace and is now hosted
by the Peace Education
Center, Teachers College, Columbia University. The campaign
aims to build public awareness and political support for the
introduction of peace education in schools throughout the world
and to promote the education of all teachers to teach for peace.
Resources
available from the Hague Appeal for Peace include International
Law and Peace: A Peace Lesson, Peace
Lessons from Around the World, Peace
and Disarmament Education, Time
to Abolish War: Youth Manual created by Youth for Youth,
and Learning
to Abolish War.
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
(LCNP)
866 UN Plaza, Suite 4050
New York, NY 10017-1830 USA
Tel. (212) 818 1861
Fax: (212) 818 1857
E-Mail: lcnp@lcnp.org
UN Office of the
International Association
of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA)
Accredited as a citizens' organization (NGO) at the United
Nations.
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