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Fund for Peace Initiatives (FFPI) Attends Atlanta Consultation III organized and by the Global Security Institute. January 20-22, 2010. Atlanta, GA.

fundforp — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:40:36 +0000

The Atlanta Consultation III was hosted by President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center in Atlanta and was attended by diplomats from twenty nations including nuclear weapon states (UK and US), and representatives of the international and non-governmental organizations such as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, the Two Futures Project, the Carnegie Corporation and the Nobel Peace laureates and several other organizations, who all worked together during the two-day conference.

The purpose of the Atlanta Consultation III was to find consensus on the agenda priorities for the upcoming review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which will take place at the United Nations headquarters in New York City in May 2010.

President Jimmy Carter was a keynote speaker. Other notable addresses were presented by the Honorable Greta Evans (Australia), Ambassador Libran Cabactulan (Philippines) the 2010 NPT Review Conference President, and the Honorable Sergio Duarte, Chairman of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs. All urged an NPT action plan that is “doable and aggressive” and one that will lead to the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

The Global Security Institute organized and ran the consultations, as it did in 2000 and 2005, but this year consultation was markedly different in its optimism for new advances and consensus amongst the global community lead by the United States on the need to cut nuclear weapon stockpiles worldwide and strengthen nuclear nonproliferation.

The Fund for Peace Initiatives was invited to participate in the consultation as a guest non-governmental organization, and was represented by Mr. Les DeWitt.

For more information please contact mpi-ny@gsinstitute.org or visit http://www.gsinstitute.org/

Sidney D. Drell Addresses Menlo Park Peacebuilders

fundforp — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:12:35 +0000

Melanie Greenberg, Sidney Drell, David Holloway, Siegfried Hecker, Richard Rhodes and guests discuss nuclear nonproliferation, treaties, and US policy towards Iran, Russia and North Korea.

Moderator Melanie Greenberg is president and founder of the Cypress Fund for Peace and Security.
Greenberg was director of the Conflict Resolution grantmaking program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Prior to joining the Hewlett Foundation, Ms. Greenberg served as the associate director of the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation, and deputy director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. In her work on international conflict resolution, Ms. Greenberg has helped design and facilitate public peace processes in the Middle East, the Caucasus and Ireland. She is a member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Genocide. Ms. Greenberg holds an BA magna cum laude from Harvard, and a JD from Stanford Law School.

Listen to Melanie Greenberg talk about the goals of Cypress Fund

Sidney D. Drell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor of theoretical physics (emeritus) at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where he served at deputy director until retiring in 1998. An arms control specialist, he has advised the executive and legislative branches of government on national security and defense technical issues for more than four decades. From 1983 to 1989, he was the founding codirector of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Arms Control.

Listen to Sidney Drell’s 15 minute talk

David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, a professor of political science, and an FSI senior fellow. He was co-director of CISAC from 1991 to 1997, and director of FSI from 1998 to 2003. His research focuses on the international history of nuclear weapons, on science and technology in the Soviet Union, and on the relationship between international history and international relations theory.

Listen to David’s 20 minute talk

Questions from the audience

How does the economic future of Russia filter through all of our perceptions of what is going on there?

David Holloway Answers

What are the motivations that might bring Iran and North Korea to the table? Do you have any hope to offer us?

David Holloway Answers

Richard Rhodes and Siegfried Hecker Respond

What does it mean to verify. You talked about the improvements in 2007 in North Korea, they gave us all sorts of information but it wasn’t quite enough-what is enough? Can America hold back and not get the full story on these places and still come up with the vision that works?

Sidney Drell Answers

The Hoover Initiative is focused on nuclear nonproliferation. Where is the major push back against the Hoover initiative in this country and is there anything that we as citizens can do to increase the likelihood of it being successful during this administration.

Sidney Drell Answers

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fundforp — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:56:35 +0000

On Wednesday, January 28th we have an event in Menlo Park, California with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. who is Cypress Fund Chairman and Co-founder www.cypressfund.org. Internationally known as a leading authority in the field of arms control agreements to combat the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. has served as a senior U.S. diplomat involved in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement between 1970 and 1997. Ambassador Graham serves as the chair of Thorium Power, Inc., and previously served as the President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. From 1994 until 1997, he served as the Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament, appointed by President Clinton. During his work with the Clinton Administration Ambassador Graham spearheaded the international agreement for the indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Ambassador Graham currently chairs the Bipartisan Security Group (Global Security Institute). He received a L.L.B. from Harvard University, and an A.B. from Princeton University.

Ambassador Graham is one of the world’s leading experts on nuclear terrorism and proliferation. He will walk us through the dangers of today’s nuclear landscape – and suggest strategies for countering them.