Nuclear Disarmament Highlights

The Simons Foundation Canada is pleased to share an invitation to attend the launch of this new book by Prof. M.V. Ramana, Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, The University of British Columbia. All are welcome to attend.

Visit The Hill Times at the link below for this commentary by The Hon. Douglas Roche, a Peace Leader at The Simons Foundation Canada.

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs held the Simons Panel on Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament in cooperation with the Vienna School of International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna on September 13, 2024. See the link below for video of the full event.

We are pleased to share the announcement that The Simons Foundation Canada's Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence, Ernie Regehr, O.C., will receive the Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (CNWC) 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award.

Visit The Globe and Mail at the link below for this op-ed by Ernie Regehr, O.C., our Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence, and The Hon. Douglas Roche, a Peace Leader at The Simons Foundation Canada.

Monday, July 8, 2024, 3:30 - 5:00pm. We are pleased to share an invitation to this free, public event on behalf of the School for International Studies and the David Lam Centre at Simon Fraser University (SFU). All are welcome to attend.

The Simons Foundation Canada is pleased to share this paper jointly issued by Canadian Pugwash Group, Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention and Project Ploughshares, authored by Douglas Roche, O.C., one of The Simons Foundation Canada's Peace Leaders, and Tariq Rauf.

Visit The Hill Times at the link below for this commentary by The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., a Peace Leader at The Simons Foundation Canada.

Click here for remarks by Prof. Frank N. von Hippel at the Bruce Blair Memorial Lecture in Washington, DC. Dr. Bruce G. Blair was Co-Founder of Global Zero, Research Scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, and a Peace Shaper with The Simons Foundation Canada as the 2018 recipient of The Simons Foundation Award for Distinguished Global Leadership in the Service of Peace and Disarmament.

The Simons Foundation Canada and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) co-convened this International Parliamentary Conference at the United Nations in New York during the Second Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).