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Nuclear Disarmament and International Security
Reaching Critical Will: NGO Strategy Summit
October 18-20, 2002
United Nations Church Center
777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd floor
New York, NY
Friday 18 October
6-8 pm Reception
Remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs Jayantha
Dhanapala
"Disarming Humor" with Bill Hartung, World Policy Institute
Saturday 19 October
8-9 am Breakfast
9-10:30 Welcome and Introduction: Emily Schroeder
International Security and Nuclear Weapons: The Political Context
John Burroughs, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
Merav Datan, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association
Randy Rydell, UN Department for Disarmament Affairs
10:30 Break
11-1 The Non-Governmental Role and the Funding Environment
Paul Carroll, Ploughshares Fund
Wayne Jaquith, Peace and Security Funders Group
Jennifer Simons, The Simons Foundation
Aaron Tovish, UN NGO Committee on Disarmament, Geneva
Felicity Hill, UNIFEM
1-2 pm Lunch
2- 3:30 The Current Agenda for Disarmament and Security
With governmental participants and observers from Canada, New Zealand,
South Africa, and Sweden.
- What are the current political openings or opportunities?
- What contribution can NGOs make?
- Which NGO practices and tactics work best? Which don't work?
Sunday 20 October
8-9 Breakfast
9-10:30 Disarmament Education
Michael Cassandra, UN Department for Disarmament Affairs
Natalie Goldring, Program on General Disarmament, University of
Maryland
Kathleen Sullivan, Educators for Social Responsibility
10:30 Break
11-1 Strategic Planning
Comments: Janet Bloomfield, Atomic Mirror
Andrew Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation
Small group discussions building on the following questions:
- Given the political context and NGO realities, what are the possible
roles for NGOs? What are the obstacles to NGO influence and involvement?
- Which strategies of the past still apply? Which need revision
or replacement?
- What assumptions underlie NGO research and advocacy?
- How can we have input into traditional fora (NPT, Conference
on Disarmament, Disarmament Commission, General Assembly, governments,
parliaments) and what other fora exist (universities, industry,
other movements)?
- How do we expand the peace/disarmament networks?
- How do we reach out to other networks (globalization, environment,
women's, human rights, indigenous)?
- What lessons have we learned? Best practices? Themes?
- What outcome and follow up processes can we develop now?
1pm Lunch
2-3 Summaries from small group/thematic discussions
Identification of follow up process
Reaching Critical Will
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
777 UN Plaza, 6th Floor, New York,
NY 10017, USA
Tel: 1 212 682 1265, Fax: 1 212 286 8211, Email:
info@reachingcriticalwill.org
www.reachingcriticalwill.org
777 UN Plaza - 6th Floor - New York, NY - 10017 - Ph: 212.682.1265 - Fax: 212.286.8211 - info@reachingcriticalwill.org
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