International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament
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The International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament took place in Oslo
on 26 and 27 February 2008. It was organized by The Government of Norway
, the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority in collaboration with the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative) and the Hoover Institute. The Conference entitled "Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons" had the purpose of building consensus between nuclear
weapon states and non-nuclear weapon states and about the importance of all the actions in the NPT
.
The specific aims were twofold:
• To identify and formulate disarmament
, non-proliferation and nuclear risk reduction proposals that can realistically be implemented in the mid-term (2–5 years)
• To discuss long-term objectives and how progress can be made toward achieving them.
The conference focused on the discussion over several issues, some of them were: what nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states can do to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in national security policies, how regional conflicts impact efforts to reduce nuclear dangers, the role of treaties and ways of reconciling nuclear energy expansion with nonproliferation efforts.
Dr. Alexei Arbatov Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Moscow
Center
Ms. Irma Arguello
Founder and Chairwoman, Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation
- NPSGlobal, Buenos Aires
Dr. Bruce Blair
President, World Security Institute, Washington D.C.
Dr. Hans Blix
Chairman, The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Stockholm
Ambassador Richard Butler
Convenor, Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Dr. Shahram Chubin
Director of Studies, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala
Visiting Professor, Vancouver University
Dr. Sidney Drell
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Ambassador Sergio Duarte High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, New York
Mr. Robert Einhorn Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei Director General, IAEA, Vienna
Dr. Ali Fahmy El-Saiedi Executive Advisor to the Board, Power Generation Engineering and Services Co., Cairo
Mr. Gareth Evans
President and Chief Executive, International Crisis Group, Brussels
Mr. Mark Fitzpatrick Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Ms. Annalisa Giannella Personal Representative to the High Representative for Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Council of the European Union, Brussels
Dr. Pierre Goldschmidt
Visiting Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.
Ambassador James Goodby
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Ms. Rose Gottemoeller Director, Carnegie Moscow Center
Dr. Patricia Lewis
Director, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Geneva
Ambassador Abdul Samad Minty Deputy Director-General and Special Representative on Disarmament Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, Pretoria
Ambassador Takeshi Nakane Director General, Disarmament, Non-proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo
Senator Sam Nunn
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington D.C.
Dr. George Perkovich Vice President for Studies–Global Security and Economic Development, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.
Sir Michael Quinlan Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Mr. Vasantha R. Raghavan Lt. Gen. (Ret.) and Director, Delhi Policy Group
Dr. Ramamurti Rajaraman Co-chair, International Panel on Fissile Materials
Ms. Joan Rohlfing Senior Vice President for Programs & Operations, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington D.C.
Dr. Dingli Shen Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai
Secretary George Shultz Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution
, Stanford University
Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
, Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
on 26 and 27 February 2008. It was organized by The Government of Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority in collaboration with the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative) and the Hoover Institute. The Conference entitled "Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons" had the purpose of building consensus between nuclear
weapon states and non-nuclear weapon states and about the importance of all the actions in the NPT
NPT
- Codes :* NPT, the reporting mark of Portland Terminal Railroad of Oregon, United States* NPT, the former postcode of Newport, Wales, United Kingdom* NPT, an IATA code of Newport State Airport, Middletown, Rhode Island, United States- Law enforcement :...
.
The specific aims were twofold:
• To identify and formulate disarmament
Disarmament
Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear arms...
, non-proliferation and nuclear risk reduction proposals that can realistically be implemented in the mid-term (2–5 years)
• To discuss long-term objectives and how progress can be made toward achieving them.
The conference focused on the discussion over several issues, some of them were: what nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states can do to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in national security policies, how regional conflicts impact efforts to reduce nuclear dangers, the role of treaties and ways of reconciling nuclear energy expansion with nonproliferation efforts.
The panelists
The panelists were:Dr. Alexei Arbatov Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Moscow
Moscow
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Center
Ms. Irma Arguello
Irma Arguello
Irma Arguello is an international security expert from Argentina. She founded and currently chairs the Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation- NPSGlobal, a private, non-profit initiative oriented to help reduce risks derived from the proliferation and use of armaments, with a special...
Founder and Chairwoman, Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation
Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation
The Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation – NPSGlobal is a private, non-profit institution with the goal of reducing risks derived from proliferation and use of arms. It has a special emphasis on weapons of mass destruction...
- NPSGlobal, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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Dr. Bruce Blair
Bruce Blair
Bruce Robert Blair is a New Zealand cricketer. He played 14 One Day Internationals for New Zealand in the 1980s. After retiring from playing, Blair went onto coach Northern Districts from 2001 to 2006...
President, World Security Institute, Washington D.C.
Dr. Hans Blix
Hans Blix
is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs . Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos...
Chairman, The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Stockholm
Stockholm
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Ambassador Richard Butler
Richard Butler (diplomat)
Richard William Butler AC has served as an Australian diplomat, a United Nations weapons inspector and the Governor of Tasmania.-Life and career:...
Convenor, Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Dr. Shahram Chubin
Shahram Chubin
Shahram Chubin, born in Iran and educated in Britain and the US is a Swiss national. Before joining the GCSP he taught at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva .- Background :...
Director of Studies, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala
Jayantha Dhanapala
Professor Jayantha Dhanapala is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a governing board member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Dr. Dhanapala was Sri Lanka's official candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations,...
Visiting Professor, Vancouver University
Dr. Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell
Sidney David Drell is an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. He is a professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell is a noted contributor in the field of quantum electrodynamics and particle...
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Stanford University
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Ambassador Sergio Duarte High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, New York
New York
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Mr. Robert Einhorn Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei Director General, IAEA, Vienna
Vienna
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Dr. Ali Fahmy El-Saiedi Executive Advisor to the Board, Power Generation Engineering and Services Co., Cairo
Cairo
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Mr. Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans (politician)
Gareth John Evans, AO, QC , is a former Australian politician from 1978 to 1999 representing the Australian Labor Party, serving in a number of ministries including Attorney-General and Foreign Minister from 1983 to 1996 in the Hawke and Keating governments. He was president and chief executive...
President and Chief Executive, International Crisis Group, Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
Mr. Mark Fitzpatrick Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
London
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Ms. Annalisa Giannella Personal Representative to the High Representative for Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Council of the European Union, Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
Dr. Pierre Goldschmidt
Pierre Goldschmidt
Mr. Pierre Goldschmidt, a Belgian nuclear scientist, retired June, 2005, as Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency, , succeeded by Olli Heinonen. Mr...
Visiting Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.
Ambassador James Goodby
James Goodby
James Eugene Goodby is an author and former US diplomat.Goodby was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard University in 1951 and served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Air Force during the Korean War....
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Ms. Rose Gottemoeller Director, Carnegie Moscow Center
Dr. Patricia Lewis
Patricia Lewis
Dr. Patricia Lewis is a British nuclear physicist and arms control expert, who is currently the Deputy Director and Scientist in Residence at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She was previously the Director of the United...
Director, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Geneva
Geneva
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Ambassador Abdul Samad Minty Deputy Director-General and Special Representative on Disarmament Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, Pretoria
Pretoria
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Ambassador Takeshi Nakane Director General, Disarmament, Non-proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
Senator Sam Nunn
Sam Nunn
Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative , a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a...
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington D.C.
Dr. George Perkovich Vice President for Studies–Global Security and Economic Development, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.
Sir Michael Quinlan Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Mr. Vasantha R. Raghavan Lt. Gen. (Ret.) and Director, Delhi Policy Group
Dr. Ramamurti Rajaraman Co-chair, International Panel on Fissile Materials
International Panel on Fissile Materials
The International Panel on Fissile Materials , established in 2006, is a group of independent nuclear experts from 16 countries. It aims to advance international initiatives to “secure and to sharply reduce all stocks of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, the key materials in nuclear...
Ms. Joan Rohlfing Senior Vice President for Programs & Operations, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington D.C.
Dr. Dingli Shen Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
Secretary George Shultz Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then future U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, an early alumnus of Stanford....
, Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre is the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, having been appointed to Jens Stoltenberg's second cabinet on 17 October 2005. He represents the Norwegian Labour Party.-Personal life:...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...