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New on the PPNN Website:
Briefing
Book, April 2004 Edition
 PPNN
Briefing Meeting
In
conjunction with the launch of its Study, "Putting
the Final Document into Practice", the Programme for
Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PPNN) and the Center for
Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute for International
Studies (CNS) convened a meeting with Ambassadors from the Conference
on Disarmament, Geneva on 8 and 9 March 2002 in Annecy, France.
The purpose was to address and discuss issues likely to be prominent
in discussions at the first session of the Preparatory Committee
for the 2005 NPT Review Conference. Six presentations were made
during this meeting, which was chaired jointly by Ben Sanders,
Executive Chairman of PPNN and William Potter, Director of CNS.
Copies of the text of these presentations are now being made
generally available through the PPNN and CNS websites and of
the Study on the PPNN one. The presentations were, in order
of delivery:
- The
Evolving Political and Strategic Context after 11 September
and Commitments in the 2000 Final Document - Harald
Müller, Director, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
(PRIF)
- Core
Non-Proliferation Regime Problems - Non-Compliance and Universality
- John Simpson, Programme Director, Programme for Promoting
Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Southampton
- Disarmament
- General Principles and Multilateral Actions - Rebecca
Johnson, Executive Director, The Acronym Institute for Disarmament
Diplomacy, London
- Disarmament
- Unilateral and Bilateral Actions - Lewis Dunn, Senior
Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation,
McLean, Virginia
- Dealing
with the Risks of Nuclear Terrorism: Physical Protection,
Nuclear Safety and Other Initiatives - Grigori Berdennikov,
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the
International Organizations in Vienna
- Procedural
Issues: The Nature of the Revised Review Process and the New
Reporting and Consultation Procedures - Tariq Rauf,
Director, International Organizations and Nonproliferation
Program, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey
Newsbrief No. 52, Fourth
Quarter 2000
2000 editions of the PPNN Briefing
Books are now available on the publications pages
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PPNN is
an international non-governmental networking organisation structured
around a Core Group
of acknowledged authorities in the field of nuclear non-proliferation
and disarmament. PPNN's aim is the strengthening of the nuclear non-proliferation
regime. Following a policy of strict objectivity in respect of the political
issues involved, PPNN seeks to make diplomats, government officials,
the academic community, industry and public media, more aware of the
nature and causes of the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the need
to deter it, and the factors that might advance nuclear disarmament.
PPNN's Objectives
are:
- To help strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation
regime;
- To promote progressive abolition of nuclear
weapons;
- To promote the implementation of the 1995 Decision on Principles
and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament;
- To ensure the realization of the 1995 Decision
on creating opportunities for dialogue on methods of strengthening
the nuclear non-proliferaton regime and promoting the abolition of
nuclear weapons;
- To work for the universalization of the NPT
and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime.
- To build on the achievements
of the 2000 NPT Review Conference by making recommendations aimed
at facilitating the implementation of the action statements contained
in the Final Document.
Funding
PPNN currently receives its funding from charitable
and other organisations in Japan, the United Kingdom and the United
States including: B. & G. S. Cadbury Trust, The W. Alton Jones Foundation,
The Ford Foundation, The Japanese Atomic
Energy Relations Organisation, The
J.D. and C.T. MacArthur Foundation, The Ploughshares Fund, The Prospect
Hill Foundation, The Rockefeller Brothers
Fund and The Rockefeller Foundation.
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