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  Ploughshares E-Newsletter

January 28, 2009

Announcements

The Presbyterian Church in Canada Internship

The Presbyterian Church in Canada and Project Ploughshares invite applications for the 2009-2010 Peace and Human Security Internship with Project Ploughshares in Waterloo, Ontario. The internship will run from September 2009 to April 2010. Applications close March 31, 2009; click here for details.

Interns and Volunteers

Project Ploughshares welcomes interns Amalia Biro, Matt Gidomski, and Scott Verhoeve who are senior students in the Global Studies program at Wilfrid Laurier University. They will be working during the winter term to update the conflict descriptions in the Ploughshares Armed Conflicts Report.

In addition, we are pleased to have as volunteers, Monica Bento and Dave Kielstra who are documenting regional trends in conflict over the past 20 years.

First audit of Canada’s military exports released

Project Ploughshares has released On the Record, a detailed audit of the government’s report on Canada’s military exports. The data, published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), is for the period 2003–2005. In addition, we have posted a Media Release and a letter to DFAIT concerning the audit.

Program Updates

“Reaching Out: New Approaches to Security in Space”

On January 8, 2009 Project Ploughshares and Secure World Foundation organized an event hosted by the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. on new approaches to security in space. Drawing on a sense of renewal following the election of President Barack Obama, the event sought to identify critical challenges and opportunities to address them through a framework of cooperative security and peaceful uses in outer space. Jessica West, Ploughshares Program Associate and Program Manager of the Space Security Index, was the keynote speaker. She was followed by Dr. Scott Pace, Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, Richard DalBello, Vice-President of Government Relations at Intelsat General, and Clay Mowry, President of Arianespace Inc. The event was attended by 70 people from civil, commercial, and military space communities in Washington D.C. as well as representatives from the US Congress.

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Jessica West with Ray Williamson, Director,
Secure World Foundation

Arms Trade Treaty

On January 23, Senior Program Associate Ken Epps attended the New York organizational meeting of the United Nations working group that over the next three years will deliberate on details of an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The new ATT “Open Ended Working Group” established by a General Assembly resolution on Christmas Eve is open to all UN member states. It will hold its first week-long session in early March in New York. With other members of the ATT Steering Committee (the civil society network promoting an ATT), Ken also met with diplomats in advance of the Friday meeting to encourage states to speak in favour of constructive and open procedures for the Working Group.

Speaking Engagements

Executive Director John Siebert made a presentation on January 24, 2009 at the student-organized Wilfrid Laurier University Global Citizenship Conference. He was part of a panel looking at building links from problems to solutions on issues that challenge global citizens.

Project Ploughshares in the News

Senior Policy Advisor Ernie Regehr was quoted extensively in the Canadian Press article titled "Critics say Canada enabling India's military nuclear program" which appeared in the January 23rd Globe and Mail and the January 24th Toronto Star. The story was also picked up by Global Security Newswire and Radio Australia News (ABC).

Conditioning Nuclear Co-operation with India
Ernie Regehr
Embassy, January 7, 2009

Documents and Publications Now Online

A Roundtable on Nuclear Issues in Relation to Iran
Hosted by Project Ploughshares and Mennonite Central Committee Canada in cooperation with the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Ottawa.
Ploughshares Working Paper 09-1, January 2009

On the Record: An audit of Canada's report on Canada's military exports, 2003-05
(Letter to DFAIT) (Report) (Media Release)
January 2009

Disarming Conflict
Ernie Regehr's blog has recent postings on Canada-India nuclear cooperation and negotiating the Arms Trade Treaty. Please note the change in address for the blog: http://disarmingconflict.blogspot.com/ . (Past postings remain accessible at http://www.igloo.org/disarmingconflict/disarmingc .)

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