Secretariat of the Group of Governmental Experts

Monitoring, Database and Information Branch

Room S-3151 A

Department for Disarmament Affairs

United Nations

New York, NY 10017

Dear Sir/Madam,

NGO submission to the Expert Group preparing a Study on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education

The IPB does not itself run courses or educational programmes of the type you describe. However this is a field in which we are active in other ways. We wish to associate ourselves with the points made by the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, USA in their submission to the UN Study.

In addition, I would refer to my detailed paper (attached) delivered to the UN Advisory Board for Disarmament Affairs on July 6, 2000. This outlines the work of the Global Campaign for Peace Education, initiated by the Hague Appeal for Peace (see: www.haguepeace.org), and addresses a wide range of points, including those raised earlier by other contributors to the Advisory Board, notably Potter, Pettigrew and Reardon.

We recognise that in a number of key countries the climate for public discussion of disarmament issues (notably nuclear and missile issues) is rather unfavourable at this time. This is all the more reason to wish you good luck in your most important endeavour. I shall follow your work with great interest, and for this reason I have some time ago forwarded your Information Note to our member organizations and Global Campaign partners. I sincerely hope the response to your request has been positive.

Yours sincerely

Colin Archer

Secretary-General

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