It is noteworthy to mention that amid these citizen diplomacy initiatives, the doctors from the USA and the USSR founded an organisation called International Physicians for the Prevention of the Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 1980, which was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1985…… Read More Guest article: Roles of key civil society actors in nuclear disarmament (part 2)
This paper applies epistemic communities’ lens in order to demonstrate that civil society in the field of nuclear disarmament can serve in the role of experts and provide expertise not only in the policy related but also practice-oriented actions…… Read More Guest article: Roles of key civil society actors in nuclear disarmament (part 1)
In a rare moment in foreign policy, nuclear politics was thrown into the limelight as the nuclear ban treaty entered into force in January 2021, signalling renewed momentum for non-proliferation and disarmament. Although the number of nuclear weapons is at the lowest it has been in the last 50 years, stockpiles globally are beginning to… Read More Far From a Done Deal: Europe and the Nuclear Ban Treaty – by Olamide Samuel