HIGHLIGHTS |
"NEW" Global Action Newsletter
Updates on Global Action conferences/activities
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| "Enhancing Capacity for Rapid and Effective Troop Deployment" by Kavitha Suthanthiraraj |
Security Council Resolution 1820, Sexual Violence in Conflict
'Landmark' resolution passed unanimously on June 19th 2008
Click here for NGOWG Press Release in SCR 1820
Summary of Security Council Open Debate - June 19th 2008 |
20:20 Vision Aimed at Dismantling Nukes
by Thalif Deen
Including comments by Mayors for Peace and John Burroughs, Executive Director, LCNP |
Global Action to Prevent War; Workshop on the Eradication of Armed Conflict
Report from Conference held in Brisbane, Australia |
"Bring on the Bricklayers without Borders" April 2008
Constructive debate on Peace in Iraq and role of UNEPS
by Stuart Rees; Centre for Peace and Conflict, Sydney, Australia |
| Launch of the Ira D. Wallach Fund for the Eradication of Genocide |
"Calls Grow for Creation of Standing U.N. Army" by Marc Perelman in the Jewish Daily Forward
TAKE ACTION! Tell your US Representatives to support House Resolution 213 on UNEPS! |
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: 
Watch the 6 minute ICAN film
Sign the ICAN petition
Get informed about nuclear dangers and solutions
Get involved. There are 10 things you can do today
Download Securing our Survival (SOS): The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention |
Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis, and Paths to Peace An assessment of the report of the Hans Blix-led Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and its implications for U.S. policy. |
| U.S. House Resolution 213 on a United Nations Emergency Peace Service. |
 Final Report: Preventing Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Diverse Perspectives on a Standing, Rapid-Reaction UN Emergency Peace Service
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"A United Nations for the 21st Century: From Reaction to Prevention," Dr. Detlev Wolter. Chapter outline, introduction and commentary.
Chapter on Global Action and the UN Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) Initiative! |
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A UNEPS ‘White Paper’ Launched in Washington, DC
A UN Emergency Peace Service: One Step Towards Effective Genocide Prevention
Hosted by the Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping and Citizens for Global Solutions
On May 27th 2008, Citizens for Global Solutions and Global Action to Prevent War led a panel discussion focused on increasing the effectiveness of UN and regional genocide prevention efforts. Hosted by the Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping (PEP), the purpose of the event was to introduce and discuss a White Paper produced by Citizens for Global Solutions entitled, “A UN Emergency Peace Service: One Step Towards Effective Genocide Prevention.”
The panel was led by Don Kraus (CEO of Citizens for Global Solutions) and included Robert Zuber of GAPW and Mark Malan of the Peacebuilding Unit of Refugees International. The event chair was Kevin Bacon (Director of Refugees International).
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UNEPS Workshop in South Africa
The UNEPS meeting/workshop with partners from South Africa, Cameroon and Mozambique was conducted at the University of Pretoria (at the Centre for International Political Studies). Students, academics, NGO leaders and representatives of UN agencies gathered for a vigorous discussion of the merits and challenges of a UNEPS in African contexts.
Panel: Christian Tanyi, Hussein Solomon, Robert Zuber and Alejandro Soto Romero
The point was made strongly by the panelists – Hussein Solomon (who hosted the event), Alejandro Soto Romero, Christian Tanyi and Robert Zuber – that UNEPS is being designed and promoted as a service-integrated, complementary capacity that would work alongside existing UN and regional peacekeeping operations.
This discussion underscored two important mandates for UNEPS. First, that the non-military components of UNEPS, including police, health and development assistance, must receive the same levels of strategic attention as the military components. And second, that a UNEPS must continue to seek a complementary ‘fit’ both with the constellation of existing regional and UN peacekeeping operations and with the articulated security needs and concerns of nations in the ‘global south’ that would most likely be the recipients of any future UNEPS deployment.
Click here for to read the full conference report
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OUR PROGRAM STATEMENT (a revised version will be uploaded shortly) grounds the goal of conflict prevention in specific integrated phases over a three to four-decade period and demonstrates in a practical and concrete way that we can move from an international system based on conflict and power relations to one based on law and multilateral institutions.
Download Our Global Action to Prevent War Program Statement:
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This reasonable timetable thoughtfully integrates action towards successive advances in early warning, prevention of armed conflict, nonviolent means of conflict resolution, peacekeeping and peacemaking, transparency and other confidence-building measures, disarmament, and the implementation of criminal law regarding genocide and crimes against humanity. |
