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Between July 30 and August 4 this year, fighters of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda and elements of the Mai Mai, a local militia, entered Luvungi and [...]

The following is an abbreviated version of Ernie Regehr's June 15 presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence. Completed versions of his paper and oral presentation [...]

The 2004 Ploughshares working paper on security spending, Reshaping the Security Envelope,1 tried to identify the full extent of Canadian military and non-military spending in support of international peace and [...]

Ernie Regehr visited Kabul, Afghanistan from April 24 to May 4 to explore, among other things, attitudes and approaches toward political reconciliation and negotiations. The room was like any boys' [...]

The January-March 2008 parliamentary effort at bipartisan cooperation in reshaping the Canadian mission in Afghanistan held the possibility of pursuing a genuinely national consensus that spans a broad political spectrum [...]

The international arms trade has to date avoided serious international control measures, but in the fall of 2006 the UN General Assembly launched a process designed to bring the regulation […]

This article is based on Ernie Regehr's presentation to the Pugwash 50th-Anniversary Workshop. ********** Last year Daryl Kimball (2006) of the US Arms Control Association reminded us of just how [...]

If good intentions and serious effort were what it takes, Afghanistan would be a peaceful democracy today, but war on the Taliban regime starting in 2001, followed by a half-decade [...]

Following the May 2006 debate and vote in the House of Commons (257 in favour and 30 opposed), Canada and the United States finalized a permanent extension (rather than the [...]

Iran has consistently disavowed an ambition to acquire nuclear weapons, but its clandestine pursuit of technology and materials useful to that end has rightly put its proclamations into question. The [...]

Prime Minister Harper and President Bush are reportedly set to sign a new Canada-US security pact--essentially a revised version of the North American Aerospace Defence Agreement (NORAD). The current agreement [...]

The current deployment of Canadian Forces to Afghanistan continues a major military, humanitarian, and diplomatic commitment to that country. The grave dangers faced and the extraordinary commitment required are emphatically [...]

The international community has overwhelmingly rejected trade in nuclear materials and technology with India ever since the latter conducted a series of nuclear test explosions in 1998. That position of [...]

The failure of the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference was as predictable as it is disturbing. There is no doubt that it reflects a dangerous erosion of consensus [...]

That the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is under severe strain is not in doubt. The Treaty's three basic provisions mean that it is rightly described as a cornerstone of global security. [...]

This material was originally presented as a Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on November 4, 2004, as the committee began its [...]

This material was first presented as a Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance on November 3, 2004 at the Panel 'Canada's Place on the World Stage,' [...]

In Canada the opposition to ballistic missile defence (BMD) has rightly focused on urging the Government to reject participation and certainly not go beyond the already agreed integration of NORAD's [...]

Ever since the Government announced that it was pursuing ballistic missile defence (BMD) discussions with the United States, the Department of National Defence has made it clear that it wants [...]

Over the next months and years Canadian defence policy will be the focus of extensive public debate, facilitated by, but not confined to, the formal defence review now underway. Military [...]

Over the past year Project Ploughshares has been engaged in a CIDA-funded project with the Africa Peace Forum of Nairobi to engage Sudanese civil society in trying to think ahead [...]

The appeal of ballistic missile defence (BMD) is obvious. What responsible government would not want to shield its people from attack by nuclear-armed missiles if such protection were available? The [...]

While Canada should be upgrading its contributions to international peace and security, there are at least three reasons why such measures should not take the form of defence spending increases: [...]

NGOs involved in the UN Conference on 'The Illicit Trade In Small Arms and Light Weapons In All Its Aspects' generally had only modest expectations for it. There were major [...]

The public response to the horrific events of September 11, 2001 is beginning to engage the difficult questions of how those responsible for planning and assisting in the attacks are [...]

The movement for the early abolition of nuclear weapons received a major boost this fall with the approval of a UN resolution calling on nuclear weapon states (NWS) to undertake [...]

The storyline adopted by many nongovernmental organizations in the immediate wake of the 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was one of 'empty [...]

The guns of the US-led military surge were blazing with renewed zeal in Afghanistan's Helmand Province in February. But off the battlefield, much of the talk and not a few [...]

The current, and by now conventional, wisdom that the war in Afghanistan will not be won by military means alone is meant to highlight the importance of reconstruction, local peace-building, [...]

While no major breakthroughs marked the final two-week meeting of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), there was no denying the [...]

While Afghanistan will certainly dominate the talk at the 60th-anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1) (NATO or the Alliance) in April, leaders are also scheduled to launch [...]

The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States offers genuine hope that real change is in the offing for US approaches to nuclear weapons and the treaties [...]

While ultimately unsuccessful, recent action at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) saw at least some brave attempts to preserve a core nuclear nonproliferation principle - namely, that civilian nuclear cooperation [...]

Last March Project Ploughshares hosted a roundtable on Nuclear Issues in Relation to Iran. It was organized in cooperation with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and the Ottawa Embassy of [...]

'Permanence with accountability' was the central equation of the 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review and Extension Conference. The indefinite extension of the treaty was accompanied by a commitment to [...]

In Ottawa on 1 November 2007, the North-South Institute launched the tenth edition of the Canadian Development Report, Fragile States or Failing Development? with a public panel. One of the [...]

The North Korean test of 9 October 2006 illustrated, as did earlier Indian and Pakistani tests, the inadequacy of unilaterally declared moratoria on nuclear testing and the critical importance of [...]

UN Security Council consensus on Iran is a major achievement, except that it may turn out to be the wrong consensus at the wrong time. Iran's failure to comply with [...]

A version of this article was presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in Ottawa on November 8. Introduction: Debating Afghanistan Canadians are [...]

Resolution of the conflicts at the root of modern wars requires accelerated diplomacy and genuine political and economic attention to the grievances that stoke enmity and desperation. It is widely [...]

Canada's decision to forgo direct involvement in the US ballistic missile defence system (BMD) could yet be vindicated by the Pentagon itself. This country's flirtation with BMD brought us close [...]

This article was originally presented as a sermon at Eglinton St. George's United Church, Toronto in January 2005. In the past week while I was mulling over what I might [...]

2007 NPT PrepCom This year's Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference reflected all the divisions and controversies that continue to dog the global nuclear [...]

By virtue of India's unauthorized use of Canadian-origin technology, Canada has figured prominently, if unwillingly, in five decades of Indian nuclear weapons development. Now, a proposal to exempt India from [...]

The fundamental role and obligation of the churches is to contribute to a dynamic global political culture that generates constructive non-military peace and security policy options and makes them politically [...]

The small arms problem will not be effectively addressed without sustained attention to the conditions that generate the demand for weapons. Ernie Regehr represented Project Ploughshares at the United Nations [...]

Only through collective international attention to the political and security issues that generate proliferation pressures can the threat animating HMD interests be successfully addressed. For the moment, demand for weapons [...]

In 2001 the United Nations will host a world conference to address one of the planet's most potent killers -- the small arms and light weapons that account for up [...]

Canadians can never be immune to the political controversies that regularly engulf the United States, but our stake in the current American debate over whether to deploy a National Missile [...]

As long as the oil flows in Sudan and a Canadian company is involved, we must encourage Talisman to mitigate the negative consequences of the oil operations and meet its [...]