Arms Trade Treaty negotiations stalled, but campaign achieves gains in global...
Following the inconclusive end to the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations today, I drafted a statement with Thomas Nash, director of Article 36, and former head of the civil society coalition that...
View ArticleFinding Beauty in the Ugly End to the Arms Trade Treaty Conference: The...
Global Policy‘s Comment and Editorial section just posted my final commentary piece on the Arms Trade Treaty Diplomatic Conference in New York. The negotiations came to a frayed inconclusive end last...
View ArticleA Shout Out to Interns in International Conventional Weapons Control
Interns and campaigners for the Control Arms coalition outside the United Nations building in New York July 25, 2012. Control Arms Coalition/Andrew Kelly. Used with permission. International advocacy...
View ArticleProposal for an International Convention on Robotic Weapons
Reflecting a trend toward the outsourcing and technologizing of warfare, robots — aerial drones, armed ground robots, automated turrets, autonomous torpedoes — are becoming an increasing presence on...
View Article44k Signatories of Avaaz Petition Tell NRA “ENOUGH!”
In a petition that on Sunday, 16 December had over 44,000 signatories, concerned citizens from around the US and the world are telling NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre that they “can no...
View ArticleFutureproof the Arms Trade Treaty
The preamble of the United Nations Charter states that the purpose of the Organization is to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” If the delegates currently negotiating the Arms Trade...
View ArticleArms Trade Treaty: I Can’t Help Feeling a Little Giddy!
“the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today the UN General Assembly passed a resolution opening the final draft of the Arms Trade Treaty...
View ArticleArms Trade Treaty: A Victory for African States, Civil Society and Faith Groups
In a landslide UN General Assembly vote last week, representatives of the world’s governments endorsed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which will control the global traffic in conventional weapons,...
View ArticleThe Arms Trade Treaty and Robotic Weapons
During the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations I was involved in an effort to advocate for specific provisions to deal with the rapidly changing landscape of weapons technologies, particularly ‘unmanned’...
View ArticleThe Gun Lobby Joins with North Korea, Iran and Syria in Opposing Effort to...
In a recent article for The Hill‘s Congress Blog, I analyzed the role of the gun lobby in the US Senate’s adoption, bya slim majority, of a nonbinding amendment condemning an Arm Trade Treaty (ATT)....
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