Reaching Critical Will

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

The Model Nuclear Inventory

Jennifer Nordstrom, Editor
with
Ray Acheson, Researcher

© Reaching Critical Will
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

The Women’s International League created the Reaching Critical Will project in 1999 Reaching Critical Will (RCW), in order to increase the quality and quantity of civil society at international fora that address nuclear weapons and other disarmament and security matters. Nuclear disarmament will require coordinated and sustained effort on the part of governments, nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations, so Reaching Critical Will encourages people to act and contribute to international disarmament fora. For non-governmental organizations and concerned individuals to act, they need information, primary documents and analysis. Reaching Critical Will collects, packages and often translates disarmament related information into terms ordinary people can understand.

Based in New York, Reaching Critical Will centralizes and disseminates information, especially through its website, www.reachingcriticalwill.org, about international disarmament processes, and increases the quality and quantity of NGO
preparation and participation in these processes. The project also enhances collaborations among NGOs working on nuclear disarmament by creating opportunities for NGOs to strategize and work together, facilitating e-discussions, organizing joint publications, brokering and coordinating higher quality collaborative NGO presentations to governments, and generating regular newsletters and reports to transmit NGO opinions and analysis to governments. Additionally, the project has served as a valuable source of information and NGO analysis for governments.

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The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom would like to give our warmest thanks to Ciara Gilmartin, for contributing signifi cant research to this publication, and Pickle Press, for printing the book.