NGO Resources on the 2005 NPT Review Conference

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

NGO Initiatives toward the 2005 NPT Review Conference

British American Security Information Council/Oxford Research Group

Breakthrough or Bust in 2005? is an Overview, which introduces a series of concise, issue-based briefings that will be published by BASIC and the Oxford Research Group in the run up to the 2005 Review Conference. The briefings will provide concrete, achievable recommendations to strengthen the non-proliferation, compliance and disarmament functions of the NPT. Sign-on for the briefing series with Nigel Chamberlain (nchamberlain@basicint.org).

Abolition Now!

Abolition Now! asks individuals, citizens groups and community and civic leaders to support the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in their Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons (see below) by enrolling your own Mayors and government leaders in the Campaign during this 60th Year of Remembrance and Action for a Nuclear Weapons Free World. It's time to make a personal commitment to support the Mayors' call for concrete plans for the total elimination of nuclear weapons. The Time to Dare to Plan is NOW.

Activists around the world are working on the Abolition Now! campaign. See here for a full list of local and regional initiatives.

The Time for Nuclear Disarmament is NOW!

Contact your Foreign Ministry and Ambassadors to follow up on the Abolition2000 mailing. Our mailing calls on every nation attending the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May 2005 to come prepared with national plans and a timeline for disarmament of their country's nuclear arsenals, including a complete inventory of all fissile materials for their country as well as an outline of conditions that must be met in order for nuclear weapons and nuclear-capable states to start the irreversible, verifiable dismantlement of their nuclear arsenals.

Campaign to Strengthen the NPT

A joint initiative from the Arms Control Association and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, www.NPT2005.org and the Campaign to Strengthen the NPT are designed to provide the public, journalists, and policymakers with the latest and best information about the NPT, the challenges it faces, and leading proposals to make it stronger and more effective.

Mayors for Peace Emergency Campaign

The Mayors for Peace Emergency Campaign has proposed a reasonable timetable for achieving a nuclear weapon free world by 2020, with negotiations to begin in 2005 and to conclude by 2010, with global nuclear disarmament implemented no later than 2020. International lawyers and disarmament experts have drafted a Model Nuclear Weapons Convention for use in such negotiations (see www.lcnp.org). We have our plan! All that is lacking is the political will to get started. Abolition Now! asks individuals, citizen groups, and community and civic leaders to make a personal commitment to support the call for a nuclear weapons free world through actions leading up to the negotiation and adoption of a Nuclear Weapons Convention. Through the mobilization of civil society, the Abolition Now! Campaign aims to create the political will to abolish all nuclear weapons - by calling upon nations to dare to plan for a nuclear weapons free world and to begin negotiations for a treaty for the total elimination of nuclear weapons. Now is the time to take action!

Project Protect: Enforce the Nuclear NPT

Project Protect is an internet and PR campaign to (1) alert the public to the devastating dangers of nuclear weapons and proliferation, and (2) to encourage the public to contact their U.S. Senators (treaty advice and consent) with our opposition to weakening or avoiding US obligations under this popular treaty. We believe that a vigorous campaign along these lines will make it much more difficult for the administration to weaken the treaty, and to continue its reckless and misguided policy of making our nuclear weapons more useable while denying them to other nations.

An educational aspect is necessary for Project Protect because most of the US population did not experience the education of the "Ban-the Bomb" campaign of the1950s. The Project will emphasize the continuing cancers, deaths and genetic defects of Americans from manufacturing and testing nuclear weapons. At its core is the belief that the dangers from terrorists are not lessened by continuing present nuclear policies, and that "nonproliferation is inherently unachievable, unstable and unsustainable without the elimination of nuclear weapons from all of the world's arsenals." --The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy.

Policy Briefs on the Implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons A publication from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

Since the 2000 Review Conference, a number of challenges to the regime have emerged and the stage is set for a demanding process. This publication is a set of policy briefs written by contributors to "Halting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century", an international project chaired by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and financed by the Norwegian Research Council.

A full text version is available from NUPI's website, at: http://www.nupi.no/IPS/filestore/PolicyBriefsApril2005.pdf