Events on the topic
Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
Lunch Discussion on May 30th, 2011
on the envisaged Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East. Experts from the region outlined the different national contexts and regional dynamics. Read a summary of the main insights here
The Future of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
Lecture and Public Panel Discussion
Two processes dominated the global agenda 2010 with regard to security policy: the U.S. NPT Review Conference and the reassessment of the NATO strategy.These two major issues were discussed during this conference organised by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in Berlin.
Interviews
International Policy Dialogue:
"New Momentum for Nuclear Disarmament ?"
21/22 April 2009 in Berlin
Interviews on our YouTube Channel:
Publications
Disarmament and Arms Control - Showdown at the UN in 2012?
ATT negotiations, UNPoA review, and WMDFZ-ME conferences
by Marius Müller-Hennig
FES Berlin, December 2011
Prospects for arms control in Europe
by Michael Brzoska et al.
FES International Policy Analysis, November 2011
15 Years without Nuclear Arms: Experience and Security Guarantees for Ukrainees
Taras Mykhalniuk
FES Ukraine, February 2010
open publication (in Kyrillic)
All FES publications on Nuclear Disarmamant can be found here.
Contact
Christos Katsioulis
Phone ++49 (0)30/269 35-7707
MailChristos.Katsioulis[at]fes.de
Henrik Meyer
Phone ++49 (0)30/269 35-7462
MailHenrik.Meyer[at]fes.de
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Disarmament and Arms Control
Nuclear weapons are on top of the international security agenda again. The new vision for nuclear disarmament articulated by US president Barack Obama as well as the international movement for a nuclear weapons free world, “global zero” have been the main drivers for change in this field.
Yet, apart from these positive developments there is a downside, too. Shortly before the review conference of the Non-Proliferation-Treaty (NPT) in May 2010, negotiations risk to come to a deadlock. 20 years after the end of the cold war, the international community is confronted by an array of problems which endanger the effectiveness of the overall nonproliferation regime in its very existence. Questions of how to deal with non-NPT nuclear weapon states (like Pakistan and India), the handling of NPT treaty defaulting states or the balance between the containment and prevention of state and non-state nuclear proliferation on the one and nuclear disarmament on the other hand generate headache in capitals around the world. The upcoming NPT review conference will be one of the very few occasions to come up with decent solutions to deal with these substantial challenges.
In its international work, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung deals with these questions of disarmament and nonproliferation and tries to contribute to a strengthening of the nonproliferation regimes. The FES organizes workshops and conferences, involving politicians, experts, and civil society. In addition FES tries to provide comprehensive background information and policy briefs for national and international decision makers.
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities and Challenges
Conference on November 8/9, 2010 in Montevideo, Uruguay
On initiative of the government of Uruguay, its Foreign Ministry, the FES and Global Action to Prevent War (GAPW) organised an international seminar in Montevideo on opportunities and challenges of disarmament policy from a Latin American and Carribean perspective. UN Undersecretary for disarmament issues Sergio Duarte was one of the participants and opened the event with a welcome note from UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon. Beside the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, small arms control was one of the urgent topics on the agenda of this seminar, as small arms can be viewed as WMD themselves, given the number of victims.
Read the complete report by GAPW
Towards a Nuclear-Weapon’s-Free World:
German Parliamentarians in Support of a Successful NPT Review Conference
Expert Roundtable on 5 May 2010 in New York
This side event to the NPT Review conference provided the opportunity for an off-the-record exchange between the Bundestag's leading parliamentarians on nuclear disarmament --representatives of government as well as opposition faction-- and participants to the Review conference. UN Missions, nuclear disarmament experts, and non-governmental organizations addressed a number of key challenges for nuclear disarmament and Germany's potential role towards that end.
A Multilateral Framework for the Civil use of Nuclear Energy?
On October 6 th/7 th in Brussels, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung gathered experts from Brazil, China, Egypt, the USA and the EU to discuss the issue of civil use of nuclear energy. In a public debate and during an expert roundtable the supposed phenomenon of a renaissance of the civil use of nuclear energy was questioned and risks of proliferation and multilateral approaches to prevent it were reviewed. Is it correct to characterize the civil use of nuclear energy as a “renaissance”? Opinion on this issue was divided.