International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament

The International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament took place in Oslo on 26th and 27th February, 2008. It was organized by The Government of Norway, the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority in collaboration with the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative) and the Hoover Institute. The Conference entitled "Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons" had the purpose of building consensus between nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapon states and about the importance of all the actions in the NPT.The specific aims were two-fold:

• To identify and formulate disarmament, non-proliferation and nuclear risk reduction proposals that can realistically be implemented in the mid-term (2-5 years)

• To discuss long-term objectives and how progress can be made toward achieving them.

The conference focused on the discussion over several issues, some of them were: what nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states can do to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in national security policies, how regional conflicts impact efforts to reduce nuclear dangers, the role of treaties and ways of reconciling nuclear energy expansion with nonproliferation efforts.

The panelists

The panelists were:

Dr. Alexei Arbatov Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Moscow Center

Ms. Irma Arguello Founder and Chairwoman, NPS Global, Buenos Aires

Dr. Bruce Blair President, World Security Institute, Washington D.C.

Dr. Hans Blix Chairman, The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Stockholm

Ambassador Richard Butler Convenor, Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Dr. Shahram Chubin Director of Studies, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala Visiting Professor, Vancouver University

Dr. Sidney Drell Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Ambassador Sergio Duarte High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, New York

Mr. Robert Einhorn Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.

Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei Director General, IAEA, Vienna

Dr. Ali Fahmy El-Saiedi Executive Advisor to the Board, Power Generation Engineering and Services Co., Cairo

Mr. Gareth Evans President and Chief Executive, International Crisis Group, Brussels

Mr. Mark Fitzpatrick Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Ms. Annalisa Giannella Personal Representative to the High Representative for Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Council of the European Union, Brussels

Dr. Pierre Goldschmidt Visiting Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.

Ambassador James Goodby Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Ms. Rose Gottemoeller Director, Carnegie Moscow Center

Dr. Patricia Lewis Director, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Geneva

Ambassador Abdul Samad Minty Deputy Director-General and Special Representative on Disarmament Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, Pretoria

Ambassador Takeshi Nakane Director General, Disarmament, Non-proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo

Senator Sam Nunn Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington D.C.

Dr. George Perkovich Vice President for Studies–Global Security and Economic Development, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.

Sir Michael Quinlan Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Mr. Vasantha R. Raghavan Lt. Gen. (Ret.) and Director, Delhi Policy Group

Dr. Ramamurti Rajaraman Co-chair, International Panel on Fissile Materials

Ms. Joan Rohlfing Senior Vice President for Programs & Operations, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington D.C.

Dr. Dingli Shen Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai

Secretary George Shultz Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, Oslo

External links

* [http://disarmament.nrpa.no/ International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament]
* [http://disarmament.un.org/wmd/npt/ Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]
* [http://www.nti.org/ Nuclear Threat Initiative]
* [http://www.carnegieendowment.org/ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]
* [http://cns.miis.edu/ James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies]
* [http://www.nrpa.no/ Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority]