non-proliferation

Explore "non-proliferation" with insightful episodes like "Jeffrey Lewis: The Work of an Open Source Intelligence Researcher: Keeping Goverments Accountable - MBM #27", "Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation - Future of the NPT after 50 years", "Tilman Ruff AO - Associate Professor at Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne and Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War", "A New Approach to Nuclear Disarmament: Learning from International Humanitarian Law Success" and "Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?" from podcasts like ""Minds Behind Maps", "MultiPod", "Better Place: Talking International Law", "Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009" and "Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009"" and more!

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Jeffrey Lewis: The Work of an Open Source Intelligence Researcher: Keeping Goverments Accountable - MBM #27

Jeffrey Lewis is a Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and one of the most influential people in the Open Source Intelligence Community. He is also the host of the "Arms Control Wonk" podcast.

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00:00 Introduction
02:42 Conversation begins: Jeffrey is an Open Spy
05:05 The appeal of doing Intelligence Analysis in Public
09:36 Jeffrey's OSINT early days: the War in Irak
16:49 An example of 'bad OSINT'
20:49 The Tricky Nature of Confirmation Bias
25:05 How an OSINT Story Starts
28:10 Being Right, or at least Wrong for the Right Reasons
30:30 Reputation in reporting, especially in the Open
35:55 Monitoring for news
39:26 Machine Learning in OSINT
41:37 The Difficult Yet Informative Nature of Synthetic Aperture Radar
47:58 Partnering with Satellite Image Providers
59:22 Satellite images yes, but they're only 1 component
01:06:40 The use of Open Satellite Imagery Data
01:17:55 Teaching OSINT
01:25:07 The ever faster increase in our access to Data
01:29:40 Filtering out the crap
01:33:20 Knowing who to trust: The Ukraine use-case
01:37:43 How Jeffrey's team called out the Russian Invasion 1h before it happened
01:43:21 The power of Companies
01:48:52 Funding & How to Stay Independent
01:52:51 Advocacy
01:59:00 The tools used for OSINT
02:07:48 The Surprising Impact of Ukraine on the Public's View of Nuclear Dissuasion
02:10:54 Nuclear weapons are not fun, like really not
02:14:18 Working with a Community
02:17:37 Jeffrey's podcast: Arms Control Wonk
02:22:51 Books & Podcast Recommendations

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enAugust 15, 2022

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation - Future of the NPT after 50 years

With Tariq Rauf, Member of the Board of Directors of Atomic Reporters and former Alternate Head of the NPT Delegation, International Atomic Enegry Agency (IAEA), and Christina Bellmann, Policy Advisor for Multilateral Dialogue at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin

deDecember 18, 2021

Tilman Ruff AO - Associate Professor at Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne and Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

In this episode Jonathan chats with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tilman Ruff on his lifelong pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons.

Tilman Ruff AO is an infectious diseases and public health physician, with particular focus on the urgent planetary health imperative to eradicate nuclear weapons. His work also addresses the broader public health dimensions of nuclear technology.

He is Associate Professor in the Nossal Institute for Global Health in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Dr Ruff has since 2012 been a co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, Nobel Peace Laureate 1985), and has previously served as Asia-Pacific Vice-President, Boston-based Consultant on Policy and Programs, and Board member. He is a co-founder and was founding international and Australian chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and serves on the Committee of ICAN Australia. ICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize “... for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". ICAN is the first Australian-born Nobel Peace Laureate.

Dr Ruff has been active in the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) since 1982 and is a past national president. He was one of two civil society advisors to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, the first civil society representative on Australian nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty delegations, and a civil society delegate to the landmark intergovernmental Conferences on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Norway, Mexico and Austria (2013-14). In 2017, he led the IPPNW delegation in New York through the negotiation of the historic United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Dr Ruff has clinical interests in immunisation and travel medicine, and was the inaugural head of travel medicine at Fairfield Hospital and then Royal Melbourne Hospital. He served as Australian Red Cross international medical advisor from 1996 to 2019. Dr Ruff worked on hepatitis B control and maternal and child health in Indonesia and Pacific island countries with the Australian and NZ government aid programs, Burnet Institute, UNICEF and WHO. He spent five years as regional medical director for an international vaccine manufacturer.

In June 2012, Dr Ruff was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to the promotion of peace as an advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and to public health through the promotion of immunisation programs in the South-East Asia - Pacific region". In 2019, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) “For distinguished service to the global community as an advocate for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and to medicine.”

Better Place: Talking International Law

en-auNovember 30, 2020

A New Approach to Nuclear Disarmament: Learning from International Humanitarian Law Success

Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. Few issues are more appropriate subjects of humanitarian concern and international humanitarian law than the choice, possession, use and misuse of weapons. A body of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Disarmament Treaty Law has been built up over the last century to control and prohibit a range of weapons and weapons use. IHL and the social norms and values on which it is based, are the tools by which humanity has protected itself from misuse of its technical capacities for destruction and demonstrated its capacity for wisdom. Recent successes in disarmament through the merging of international humanitarian law and disarmament treaty law could be built upon to push for a radical, practical approach to nuclear disarmament, putting people and human frailty at the centre of the debate and being focused on achieving a safer world, free from nuclear weapons. This seminar was delivered by Dr Patricia Lewis: Deputy Director, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, California, USA.

Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

enNovember 25, 2009

Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?

Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. To stand any chance of getting near to zero, nuclear weapons must be marginalised in military and security doctrines. That means creating international norms and, if feasible, agreements that until nuclear weapons are universally prohibited by treaty, their use will be treated as a crime against humanity. Dr Johnson considers how the problems of doctrine and use could be addressed. This seminar was delivered by Dr Rebecca Johnson: Executive Director, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, London.

Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

enNovember 24, 2009

Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?

Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. To stand any chance of getting near to zero, nuclear weapons must be marginalised in military and security doctrines. That means creating international norms and, if feasible, agreements that until nuclear weapons are universally prohibited by treaty, their use will be treated as a crime against humanity. Dr Johnson considers how the problems of doctrine and use could be addressed.

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

enNovember 11, 2009

Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

The Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP on how, in the 21st century, nuclear weapons pose a greater danger than ever before and their possession is less necessary. The time has come to forge agreement on a process of multilateral disarmament. Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. Yet, in a century of globalization, when the life of every individual is directly affected by a vast network of forces beyond their control, this concept has the power to inspire action on some of the most intractable problems of our time.

Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

enOctober 28, 2009

Zero chance? Aiming for zero in weapons control

These seminars were run by the Oxford Martin School (formerly the James Martin 21st Century School) in association with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Three intersecting considerations will be examined for their relevance in assessing the wisdom of adopting 'zero' as the goal for an international initiative: 1) Tactics: Whether and how framing an issue in terms of getting to zero can be a successful technique for issue advocates? 2) Diplomatic strategy: What is the wisdom of going ahead with a major initiative even without key players? 3) Ethics: Even if we forecast that a campaign of getting to zero is not likely to be entirely or even terribly successful, can initiatives of getting to zero still recommend themselves ethically nonetheless or even be plausibly counted as moral imperatives? This seminar was delivered by Professor Richard Price: Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

enOctober 21, 2009

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Episodes (8)

Jeffrey Lewis: The Work of an Open Source Intelligence Researcher: Keeping Goverments Accountable - MBM #27

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation - Future of the NPT after 50 years

Tilman Ruff AO - Associate Professor at Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne and Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

A New Approach to Nuclear Disarmament: Learning from International Humanitarian Law Success

Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?

Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?

Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

Zero chance? Aiming for zero in weapons control