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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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• Putting Predictions to the Test

  Published: November 2, 2007, 3:53 am

  Tags: Tetlock, Fact Based Analysis, Psychology, Expert Judgment, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Prediction, Accountability

  part of it's work, UNIDIR's Disarmament as Humanitarian Action project is currently working on a publication looking at some constraints on multilateral negotiations, and how some of these might be overcome or at least potentially mitigated.One conundrum for policy makers in general is that it's very difficult to accurately predict outcomes of

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• Disarmament Insight: 2007 in review

  Published: December 12, 2007, 2:37 am

  Tags: Unidir, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Geneva, Disarmament Insight

  manifestation of disarmament as humanitarian action'. But there are others, including the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, work on small arms and the Arms Trade Treaty, and even reframing in the context of nuclear disarmament. In June we were present in Washington D.C. when outgoing British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett outlined

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• Cluster Munition Convention: "Disarmament as humanitarian action"

  Published: May 30, 2008, 9:34 am

  Tags: Cluster Munition Coalition, Oslo Process, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Cluster Munition Convention, Dublin Conference

  Process leading to it as "disarmament as humanitarian action".Those of us associated with UNIDIR's project on 'Disarmament as humanitarian action: Making Multilateral Negotiations Work' couldn't agree more. It is an historic day, indeed.John BorriePhotograph by John Borrie. Ambassador D ith O'Ceallaigh, President of the Dublin Conference,

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