David Franco is a Research Assistant in the Disarmament and Globalisation programme at the SOAS Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy where he is coordinating SCRAP. He is also Editor and Columnist at InPEC, an independent online magazine on international politics, energy, and culture founded by SOAS alumni in 2011
-
Published in: HomeDisarmament is more practical than we are conditioned to thinkAs attention shifts to the NATO summit in Chicago, a statement by sixteen non nuclear weapons states, including Switzerland and Norway - an ally of the nuclear weapons states, says that nuclear weapons and programmes have catastrophic humanitarian consequences and should be abolished.
-
Published in: HomeSCRAP-GDAMS: realising global disarmament
Governments and the military industrial complex continue to do business as usual and such business is fostering conflict and war around the world. The year 2011 was particularly conflictive and 2012 is reaching new alarming levels, particularly in the Middle East. Sino-American relations remain tense and the situation in North-East Asia is also fluctuating. SCRAP fights back…