Sharad Joshi, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Policy & Management and Research Associate, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies & The Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program (MonTREP), spoke to Free Speech Radio News today on recently-released UN report on the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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The recently elected Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano visited the Monterey Institute last week following his participation at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC. A former Diplomat-in-Residence at the Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), the Director General spoke to a large group of Monterey Institute students on Friday in a class focusing on nuclear proliferation trends and trigger events.
Director General Amano previously served with CNS Director William Potter on a United Nations Experts Group on Disarmament and Nonproliferation Education, and has long emphasized the vital role of education in promoting disarmament, nonproliferation, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy. MIIS President Sunder Ramaswamy hosted a lunch for the Director General during his visit to Monterey.
A text of Director General Amano’s prepared remarks to students as well as pictures of the class session is available on the CNS website.
Sharad Joshi, Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program (MonTREP), gave a lecture titled “India and Israel in Global Counter-Terrorism” at the group Israel Peace Alternatives, based in Davis, CA, on April 8.
As reported in the Monterey Herald,
More than 100 students and teachers from 12 U.S. high schools and 10 schools in Russia’s closed nuclear cities will gather in Monterey to present their research on “Nuclear Nonproliferation: Global Opportunities and Regional Challenges” this month.
The Critical Issues Forum spring conference will be April 22 and 23 and is sponsored by the Monterey Institute of International Studies’ James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. “
Elena Sokova has published an article entitled “Prioritizing investment in nuclear security education,” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist. In this article she calls for a National Nonproliferation Education Act and increased investment in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Nuclear Security Fund and the G-8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.
CNS News
Apr 2
CNS Director Bill Potter was quoted and the new MIIS MA in Non-Proliferation and Terrorism Studies was featured in a recent article in the Faster Times.
Johan Bergenäs was quoted in an Associated Press article on nuclear security and UN Security Council Resolution 1540 and in a Voice of America Russia article on the new START; had two articles published in World Politics Review, on March 2 and March 30; and had an article published in CISTEC, a Japanese Journal
Sharad Joshi presented a paper titled “India’s regional foreign policy and its realist basis” at the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, in Philadelphia, March 27, 2010.
In the recent widespread coverage of the latest START treaty, CNS director Bill Potter was interviewed on ABC News Radio and Voice of America, CNS Senior Research Associate Miles Pomper was quite by Agence France Presse. Nikolai Sokov, one of the Russian negotiators of START I and START II, and now a CNS researcher, was quoted in the New York Times‘ coverage of the treaty.
Johan Bergenas, a CNS staff member in the Washington office, published a commentary in the Guardian defending the EU’s new foreign policy chief, Lady Ashton.
CNS researchers Ray Zilinskas and Kenneth Coleman were featured in a front page story in today’s Monterey Herald, based on an article that appeared in the Washington Post on Monday. According to the article, “The chilling prospect of an exploding international black market for beauty drugs morphing into a bio-weapons bazaar for terrorists is highlighted in a recent study by two researchers at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.”
CNS in the News
Jan 5
Foreign Policy magazine has published an article on nuclear energy in the Middle East, written by CNS Research Associate Chen Kane. The full article can be read here .
Another CNS expert, Gordon Hahn, was cited in a Voice of America article on militants in the North Caucasus.
Finally, CNS Dirctor Bill Potter recently did an interview with the Voice of America on the subject of reported Kazakh plans to sell Iran 1350 tons of uranium.