Nuclear disarmament and international humanitarian law: implications, opportunities and challenges for the nuclear non-proliferation regime
Event Details
- Date:
- Monday, 20 April 2015
- Time:
- 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
- Room:
- Terrace Room
- UQ Location:
- Sir Llew Edwards Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.polsis.uq.edu.au//docs/FINALNucleardisarmamentseminar.pdf
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Bronwyn Crook
- Phone:
- 53446
- Email:
- b.crook@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Political Science and International Studies
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Join University of Queensland researchers ahead of the UN’s Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to reflect on the new ‘humanitarian initiative’ which seeks to re-frame the nuclear debate in clear humanitarian terms.
Nuclear weapons remain the single most destructive and immediate threat to humankind and the planet. States possessing them have promised publicly and unequivocally to eliminate them, yet retain a determination to keep them.
A new ‘humanitarian initiative’ is now seeking to re-frame the nuclear debate in clear humanitarian terms. There was resounding agreement, at a recent Intergovernmental meeting in Vienna, on the catastrophic human, health, food production and climate effects that would result from a nuclear weapon detonation.
With 16,300 nuclear weapons still in existence, and with many states frustrated at the slow pace of disarmament, the ‘humanitarian initiative’ is bound to be a source of tension at the upcoming nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York.
Some states are proposing a nuclear weapons ban treaty based on international humanitarian law, which could be pursued without the support of the nuclear weapon states.
UQ panelists will assess international humanitarian law and the implications of the humanitarian initiative for the nuclear non-proliferation regime at the New York meeting and beyond. They will also discuss Australia’s position on the initiative and its implications for Australian foreign and defence policy.
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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