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Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Status of compliance with non-proliferation and disarmament obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
World Court Project/International Law
A world-wide campaign resulting in an historic opinion from the International Court of Justice on the illegality of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Weapons Convention
The elimination of nuclear weapons through negotiation of an international treaty (convention) on the abolition of nuclear weapons. Includes a model Nuclear Weapons Convention drafted under LCNP's leadership.
Abolition 2000
An international network which seeks a nuclear weapons convention.
Middle Powers Initiative
Campaign calling on middle power countries to encourage nuclear weapon states to abolish nuclear weapons.
Global Action to Prevent War
Programs and initiatives to stop war, genocide and other forms of deadly combat. Includes progress on the International Criminal Court.
Nuclear Energy
LCNP's programs highlight the dangers of nuclear energy and the possibilities of energy alternatives.
Publications
A list of published books, articles and discussion papers.
About LCNP
A nonprofit educational association using national and international law to promote peace and disarmament.

Anyone who has a nuclear weapon as an instrument of foreign policy is ready to break all three categories of law: those of man, god, and nature. The formation of a committee such as yours was a categorical imperative.
- Kurt Vonnegut, letter to LCNP President Peter Weiss, September, 1997


Nuclear Abolition Forum:
Dialogue on the Process to Achieve and Sustain a Nuclear Weapons Free World

A valuable resource for education and advocacy, the inaugural issue features articles by LCNP and other experts examining the humanitarian approach to the abolition of nuclear weapons.

 


The Fin Project:
From Swords Into Plowshares

Sculpture by John T. Young, Seattle and Miami

 


 

Beyond the Bomb: tears, laughter, hope

ENDGAME: posters for sale
Designed by Milton Glaser

Post-Auction Sale
Artwork remaining from our fabulous December 2004 Art Auction is available at minimum bid

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Percival Goodman

"The Waiting Ones"
Spray Paint, 1962
18" x 24"



 


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What's New?

The Challenge of Nuclear Abolition, Remarks of Peter Weiss, May 2, 2012, Vienna

Assured destruction forever: nuclear weapon modernization around the world, Reaching Critical Will, March 2012, with articles by LCNP’s Merav Datan on Israel and John Burroughs on international law.

LCNP Letter Re US Policy on Spread of Enrichment and Reprocessing Technologies, March 14, 2012
US Abandons “Gold Standard” for Nuclear Trade Deals, Peter Weiss, April 30, 2012

LCNP Letter Re Presidential Nuclear Guidance, February 14, 2012

IALANA News, April 2012

The Humanitarian Imperative for Nuclear Abolition, LCNP eNews, No. 10, December 2011

Working towards the elimination of nuclear weapons, Resolution of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, November 26, 2011

Launch of Nuclear Abolition Forum: Dialogue on the Process to Achieve and Sustain a Nuclear Weapons Free World, New York, 21 October 2011. Inaugural issue of journal: International Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weapons, with articles by John Burroughs, Peter Weiss, Nicholas Grief, Randy Rydell, et al.

Mayors for Peace items

Fordham International Law Journal

Nuclear Weapons and Compliance with International Humanitarian Law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Charles J. Moxley, Jr., John Burroughs and Jonathan Granoff, Fordham International Law Journal (Vol. 34, 2011)

Obama's Nuclear Posture Review, Charles J. Moxley, Jr., Fordham International Law Journal (Vol. 34, 2011)

Taking the Law Seriously: The Imperative Need for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, Peter Weiss, Fordham International Law Journal (Vol. 34, 2011)

Vancouver Declaration

Vancouver Declaration: Law's Imperative for the Urgent Achievement of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, February 11, 2011 [In Russian]

Signatories to the Vancouver Declaration, October 2011

Media Release, March 23, 2011

Nuclear Energy and Weapons: Uncontrollable in Time and Space, Alyn Ware, HuffPost Green, March 23, 2011

"Absolute Prohibition of an Absolute Evil," Ernie Regehr, disarmingconflict.ca, March 30, 2011

Law’s Imperative, John Burroughs, Reaching Critical Will Blog, April 15, 2011

Public Momentum Builds Against Nukes, Haider Rizvi, IPS, March 25, 2011

Vancouver Conference

Humanitarian Law, Human Security: The Emerging Paradigm for Non-Use and Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Vancouver, February 10-11, 2011
Hosted by The Simons Foundation and co-convened by IALANA

Conference Statement of Intent

Participant Profiles

Remarks of Nicholas Grief - Nuclear Weapons: The Legal Status of Use, Threat and Possession

Speaking Notes of Victor Vavricka, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Remarks of Peter Weiss: How Many Points of the Law is Possession?

Remarks of Randy Rydell: Bringing Democracy and the Rule of Law to Disarmament

Paper by Toshinori Yamada: Japan's View of the Use of Nuclear Weapons

Paper by Elizabeth Shafer: Humanitarian Law and the Nuclear Disarmament Obligation

Sign Citizens’ Affirmation on Criminality of Use of Nuclear Weapons, June 2011

The U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and International Law, John Burroughs, Michigan International Lawyer, Summer 2010, pp. 2-8

Peace, Law and Nuclear Weapons (As Seen by Two Jews and an Arab), Peter Weiss, Palestine-Israel Journal, March 2010

Good Faith Negotiations Leading to the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, May 2009
Press release
Groups Seek World Court Opinion on Nukes, Thalif Deen, IPS, May 11, 2009
Resolution of IALANA General Assembly, June 2009

Good Faith, International Law, and Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, May 1, 2008 Conference, Geneva

Judge Mohammed Bedjaoui, Keynote Address, May 1, 2008, Geneva
Peter Weiss, Remarks on Judge Bedjaoui’s Keynote Address
Professor Karima Bennoune, The Intersection of Nuclear Weapons and International Human Rights Law
Professor Marcelo Kohen, Remarks
Good Faith: A Fundamental Principle of International Law, John Burroughs, News in Review, Final Edition, No. 9, 28 April – 9 May 2008

The Legal and Policy Imperatives for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Statement of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, July 2008
Ending U.S. Reliance on Nuclear Weapons and Achieving Their Global Elimination: Wise Policy and Required by Law, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, March 2008

Updated Model Convention Prohibiting and Eliminating Nuclear Weapons, 2007
Background and Resources

Weapons of Mass Destruction and Human Rights, Peter Weiss and John Burroughs, Disarmament Forum, July 2004

Newsletters & Books

IALANA News, February 2012

IALANA News, August, 2011

Nuclear Abolition Forum Dialogue on the Process to Achieve and Sustain a Nuclear Weapons Free World. Issue 1, 2011, $5 (incl. S&H)

Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? An Assessment of the Final Report of the WMD Commission and Its Implications for U.S. Policy, May 2007
Online edition, July 2008

Securing Our Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, 2007

Security Without Nuclear Deterrence, 2010

More Newsletters & Books

Blogs:

Disarmament Activist
Arms Control Wonk
Russian Forces
Strategic Security Project

Links:

Nuclear Abolition Forum
Global Action to Prevent War
Middle Powers Initiative
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Disarmament
Mayors for Peace
Western States Legal Foundation
WMDreport.org
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
Daisy Alliance
Learn About Nuclear Weapons

Other Websites of Interest

Hague Appeal for Peace
LCNP's parent body IALANA, in coalition with other organizations in 1999, initiated the Hague Appeal for Peace, a global call to enter the 21st Century with a firm program for the abolition of war. The Global Campaign for Peace Education (subscribe to newsletter) was created by the Hague Appeal for Peace and is now hosted by the National Peace Academy. The campaign aims to build public awareness and political support for the introduction of peace education in schools throughout the world and to promote the education of all teachers to teach for peace. Resources available from the Hague Appeal for Peace include International Law and Peace: A Peace Lesson, Peace Lessons from Around the World, Peace and Disarmament Education, Time to Abolish War: Youth Manual created by Youth for Youth, and Learning to Abolish War: Book One & Book Two.

Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP): UN Office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA)

Accredited as a citizens' organization (NGO) at the United Nations.

This site is part of the Hague Appeal for Peace webring.
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