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Today's Fresh Blogs...| BWC: 2007 Meeting of Experts |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 3:52 am |
| Tags: Disarmament, Non Proliferation, Meeting, Biological Weapons, Millett, Wmd |
| If you were in the Palais des Nations last Friday morning, you might have heard applause emanating from one of the conference chambers. That was the end of the 2007 Meeting of Experts of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). In comparison to other events in the Palais like the Human Rights Council, it was a low-key gathering. It is, however, |
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| What can our ancestors teach us about building trust? |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 2:49 am |
| Tags: Trust, Seabright, Security Dilemma, Wheeler, Frans De Waal, Icrc, Borrie, Coupland, Disarmament Insight |
| as part of the Disarmament Insight initiative. Their workshop brought together disarmament diplomats from Missions in Geneva, officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and UN with considerable experience of disarmament negotiations, and researchers specialising in trust issues.The challenge posed for |
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| Last Chance for the Conference on Disarmament? |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 11:14 pm |
| Tags: Conference On Disarmament, Npt, Mc Carthy, Fmt, Enmod, Btwc, Paros, Cwc, Fissile Material, Ctbt, Fmct, Bwc |
| justification of maintaining disarmament Ambassadors in Geneva while the CD languishes. The more governments withdraw their most experienced disarmament negotiators to Capitals, the less likely it becomes that the "world's sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum" will be able again to live up to that lofty description. Patrick Mc |
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| The Power of Priming |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 9:31 am |
| Tags: Conference On Disarmament, United Nations, Thornton, Psychology, Priming, Perceptions, Decision Making, Diplomacy |
| like a museum than a working disarmament body, such is the reverential hush of CD meetings there, as interventions are delivered and translated through elderly surgical plastic wired earpieces to formally attired diplomats.A legacy of deadlock sends one message to disarmament diplomats. But perhaps murals that portray human struggle, in the |
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| 0800-HOW-IS-MY-DIPLOMACY? Technology and humanitarian action |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 5:47 am |
| Tags: Humanitarian Impacts, Humanitarian Action, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Borrie, Human Security, Altruism, Civilians, Accountability |
| readers of the Disarmament Insight blog will have gathered that, among many things, we're interested in the impacts of technology on international decision-making. Patricia Lewis, for instance, has offered some of her personal observations about the changes mobile phones and Blackberries have wrought on interactions in multilateral |
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| "Cognitive Ergonomics"? |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:41 am |
| Tags: Social Interactions, Human Nature, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Borrie, Intuitions, Cognitive Ergonomics, Diplomacy |
| remarks from our 25 May Disarmament Insight symposium on Human Security, Human Nature and Trust-building in Negotiations', John Borrie talked about what he calls cognitive ergonomics and the relevance of the concept in thinking about the structures and procedures in multilateral negotiations. Not to mention Jimi Hendrix, the Who |
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| New Podcast Warring instincts: what we can learn from behavioural economics & neuroscience? |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 2:43 am |
| Tags: Trust, Social Interactions, Human Violence, Human Nature, Cooperation, Borrie, Podcast, Intuitions, Paul Seabright, Conflict, Disarmament Insight |
| 25 May we held our latest Disarmament Insight symposium with disarmament practitioners including diplomats, international civil servants, representatives of civil society groups and researchers, entitled Human security, human nature and trust-building in negotiations'.We're pleased to unveil the latest free podcast we've prepared from the |
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| New podcast: What do we know about levels of human violence? |
| Published: July 13, 2007, 6:04 am |
| Tags: Human Violence, Borrie, Podcast, Paul Seabright, Disarmament Insight |
| this year we set up the Disarmament Insight initiative with support from our funders, the governments of Norway and the Netherlands, to help multilateral practitioners think differently about human security, disarmament and arms control.On 25 May, as part of that work, we held a symposium near Geneva with a group of disarmament practitioners |
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| Is there a Geneva / New York divide? |
| Published: July 8, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: United Nations, New York, Civil Society, Mc Carthy, Negotiators, Humanitarian Impacts, Disarmament, Arms Control, Geneva, Multilateral Negotiations, Bob Dylan, Diplomacy |
| a much higher proportion of disarmament specialists. Also, disarmament diplomats in Geneva have a greater degree of informal interaction with non-governmental experts than do their colleagues in New York. All of this naturally translates into a good number of ideas and initiatives on disarmament and arms control being generated in Geneva. These |
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| Grapes, apes and the world's fate |
| Published: June 27, 2007, 7:58 pm |
| Tags: Npt, Frans De Waal, Arms Control, Perceptions, Non Proliferation, Cooperation, Borrie, Disarmament Insight |
| lack commitment to nuclear disarmament.Now, of course, it can be (and is) argued that the five NPT nuclear-weapon states do take their obligations seriously, and it is geopolitical conditions - not lack of political will - that explains their lack of progress in nuclear disarmament efforts over the last decade. They have only to point to Iran |
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| Complexity and Arms Control Diplomacy |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 2:27 am |
| Tags: Social Interactions, Mer Ay, Complexity Theory, Frans De Waal, Borrie, Paul Seabright, Network Theory, Philip Ball, Paul Ormerod, Disarmament Insight |
| part of its work, the Disarmament Insight initiative has hosted a sequence of workshops this year with Geneva disarmament practitioners to encourage them to think out of the box in their work. For example, previous visitors to our site may recall that on 25 May we held a workshop on 'human security, human nature and trust-building in |
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| North Korea nuclear talks resume in Beijing |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 10:16 am |
| Tags: World, Korea Nuclear Talks, North Korea, Nuclear Disarmament |
| Six nations engaged in protracted talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament gathered for a new round of negotiations in the Chinese capital Thursday after a six-month break. |
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| Because, when you live in a dangerous world, what better thing to do? |
| Published: September 29, 2007, 9:39 pm |
| Tags: Britain, British Navy, Disarmament, Navy, World War Ii |
| The world is currently a place of roiling international tensions. The British Navy recently distinguished itself for being undistinguished in a confrontation with Iran that turned into a national humiliation for England. Under those circumstances, there’s really only one thing to do, right? Yup, destroy your Navy: Ministers have drawn up |
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| New podcast - the physics of social behaviour |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 7:49 am |
| Tags: Social Interactions, Complexity Theory, Podcast, Rational Choice, Network Theory, Philip Ball, Disarmament Insight |
| has inspired our work on the Disarmament as Humanitarian Action project, especially two chapters of our third volume of research discussing a "physics of diplomacy" and examining the mechanisms involved in demand for small arms. Quite simply, the ideas Ball writes about are relevant to multilateral decision-makers and the ways they frame |
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| Gore and Nobel Win: A coup for junk science! |
| Published: October 13, 2007, 6:32 pm |
| Tags: Canada, Absurd, Activists, Agency, Assortment, Award, Boost, Causes, Climate, Committee, Consensus, Coup, Court, Culture, Disarmament, Dozen, Environment, Environmental, Errors, Film, Focus, Forgotten, Fringe, Futile, Gameen, Global, Gore, Heap, Inconvenient, Inef |
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