Conference hosted by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
United Nations, New York
Agenda
SESSION I: 11am-12:30pm. Conference Room B of the UN building
11:00 – 11:10 Welcome and Introductions – Michele Boyd (IEER)
11:10 – 12:30 The state of treaty compliance
- Compliance with security treaties: Overview – Nicole Deller
- State of the ABM, CTBT, and Kyoto Protocol – Arjun Makhijani (IEER)
- NPT compliance – John Burroughs (Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy)
SESSION II: 2pm-5pm. Conference Room B of the UN building
2:00 – 3:45pm The role of treaty compliance and nuclear proliferation
- The function of treaties in international security – Merav Datan (IPPNW/PSR)
- Role of the nonproliferation regime in preventing non-state nuclear proliferation – Natalie Goldring (University of Maryland)
- International law related to terrorism – Peter Weiss (Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy)
3:45 – 4:00pm Break
4:00 – 5:00pm Technical issues related to nuclear proliferation
- Role of nuclear material accounting and control in the NPT – Ed Lyman (Nuclear Control Institute)
- Reprocessing and proliferation – Arjun Makhijani (IEER)
SESSION III: 6pm-9pm. Church Center, 2nd Floor of 777 UN Plaza
6:00 – 7:00pm Reception
7:00 – 7:30pm The Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear disarmament, and terrorism – Jayantha Dhanapala (UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament)
7:30 – 8:00pm Discussion
8:00 – 9:00pm Panel response and discussion
- View from Russia – Alla Yaroshinskaya (Ecological Foundation, Russia)
- View from South Asia – Admiral L. Ramdas (India-Pak People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy)
- Arjun Makhijani (IEER) – Moderator
Related IEER literature
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties, IEER/LCNP report, April 2002
- Nuclear Weapons and International Law (Science for Democratic Action vol. 9 no. 3, May 2001)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Science for Democratic Action vol. 8 no. 2, February 2000)