Year: 2014

The Austrian Pledge to Ban Nuclear Weapons

by Dr Rebecca Johnson Driven by “the imperative of human security for all", Austria pledged at the HINW conference to work to "stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons in light of their unacceptable humanitarian consequences and associated risks”....

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Gathering speed to ban nuclear weapons

The Third International Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons (HINW) opens in Vienna today, with arguments for humanitarian disarmament growing in strength. This time the UK and the US will attend. What will be the likely outcome? by Rebecca...

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Feminist peacebuilding – a courageous intelligence

There are patriarchal reasons why women are disproportionately made to suffer in wars. It should not be surprising that women are disproportionately active in resisting and challenging violence, wars and armed oppression, says Rebecca Johnson. by Rebecca Johnson via...

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Civil society and banning nuclear testing

Rebecca Johnson's chapter "The role of civil society in negotiating the CTBT" in Banning the Bang or the Bomb? edited by Mordechai Melamud, Paul Meerts, and I.William Zartman, published by Cambridge University Press, 2014. This book deals with a range of analyses on...

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