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Nuclear
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Initiatives for non-proliferation including the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty and implementation of obligations under
the Non-Proliferation Treaty. |
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World
Court Project/International Law
A world-wide campaign resulting in an historic opinion
from the International Court of Justice on the illegality
of nuclear weapons. |
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Nuclear
Weapons Convention
The elimination of nuclear weapons through negotiation
of an international treaty (convention) on the abolition
of nuclear weapons. Includes a model Nuclear Weapons Convention
drafted under LCNP's leadership. |
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Abolition
2000
An international network which seeks a nuclear weapons
convention. |
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Middle
Powers Initiative
Campaign calling on middle power countries to encourage
nuclear weapon states to abolish nuclear weapons. |
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Global
Action to Prevent War
Programs and initiatives to stop war, genocide and other
forms of deadly combat. Includes progress on the International
Criminal Court. |
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Nuclear
Energy
LCNP's programs highlight the dangers of nuclear energy
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Publications
A list of published books, articles and discussion papers. |
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About LCNP
A nonprofit educational association using national and
international law to promote peace and disarmament. |
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Anyone
who has a nuclear weapon as an instrument of foreign
policy is ready to break all three categories of law:
those of man, god, and nature. The formation of a committee
such as yours was a categorical imperative.
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- Kurt Vonnegut, letter to LCNP President
Peter Weiss, September 14, 1997 |
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What's
New?
LCNP
eNews, December 2011, No. 10:
The
Humanitarian Abolition for Nuclear Abolition
Working
towards the elimination of nuclear weapons, Resolution
of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, November
26, 2011.
Asian
Leaders Campaign Against Nukes in Own Backyard, Thalif
Deen, IPS, December 12, 2011. Inaugural
Statement of Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation
and Disarmament, December 12, 2011
Unfreezing
Disarmament, John Burroughs, Nuclear Abolition News/IPS
Columnist Service, November 2011
Launch
of Nuclear Abolition Forum: Dialogue on the Process to Achieve
and Sustain a Nuclear Weapons Free World, New York,
21 October 2011. Inaugural issue of journal: International
Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weapons, with articles by John
Burroughs, Peter Weiss, Nicholas Grief, Randy Rydell, et al.
The
Nuclear Question: The Church’s Teachings and the Current State
of Affairs, Remarks by Archbishop Francis Chullikatt,
Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN, Kansas City, MO,
July 1, 2011
Key
Points of Landmark Speech, LCNP, July 2011
International
Environmental Law and Nuclear Winter, Ed Chen, 2010
Mayors
for Peace items
Fordham International
Law Journal
Nuclear
Weapons and Compliance with International Humanitarian
Law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Charles
J. Moxley, Jr., John Burroughs and Jonathan Granoff, Fordham
International Law Journal (Vol. 34, 2011)
Obama's
Nuclear Posture Review, Charles J. Moxley, Jr., Fordham
International Law Journal (Vol. 34, 2011)
Taking
the Law Seriously: The Imperative Need for a Nuclear Weapons
Convention, Peter Weiss, Fordham International Law
Journal (Vol. 34, 2011) |
Vancouver Declaration
Vancouver
Declaration: Law's Imperative for the Urgent Achievement
of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, February 11, 2011
[In
Russian]
Signatories
to the Vancouver Declaration, October 2011
Media
Release, March 23, 2011
Nuclear
Energy and Weapons: Uncontrollable in Time and Space,
Alyn Ware, HuffPost Green, March 23, 2011
"Absolute
Prohibition of an Absolute Evil," Ernie Regehr,
disarmingconflict.ca,
March 30, 2011
Law’s
Imperative, John Burroughs, Reaching Critical Will
Blog, April 15, 2011
Public
Momentum Builds Against Nukes, Haider Rizvi, IPS,
March 25, 2011 |
Sign
Citizens’ Affirmation on Criminality of Use of Nuclear Weapons,
June 2011
The
U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and International Law, John
Burroughs, Michigan International Lawyer, Summer 2010,
pp. 2-8
Peace,
Law and Nuclear Weapons (As Seen by Two Jews and an Arab),
Peter Weiss, Palestine-Israel Journal, March 2010
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
Resolution of IALANA
General Assembly, June 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 –
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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
Updated
Model Convention Prohibiting and Eliminating Nuclear Weapons,
2007
Securing Our
Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, 2007
Background and Resources
Weapons
of Mass Destruction and Human Rights, Peter Weiss and
John Burroughs, Disarmament Forum, July 2004
IALANA
News, August 2011
IALANA
News, June 2011
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
Online edition,
July 2008
Securing
Our Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention,
2007
Security
Without Nuclear Deterrence, 2010
More Books
Blogs:
Disarmament
Activist
Arms Control Wonk
Russian Forces
Strategic Security Project
Links:
Nuclear
Abolition Forum
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
Campaign for a
Nuclear Weapons Free World
Daisy Alliance
Learn About Nuclear
Weapons
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) was created by the Hague Appeal for Peace
and is now hosted by the National
Peace Academy. 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: Book
One & Book
Two.
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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