Senior Research Associate Noah Mayhew comments on how the AUKUS partnership was addressed at the 2023 NPT PrepCom and how it may be seen at the 2023 IAEA General Conference.
The VCDNP organised a visit for the UN Disarmament Fellows to the Brussels-based European Union offices dealing with non-proliferation and disarmament policy.
VCDNP experts organised, spoke at, and moderated 10 events at the 2023 NPT Preparatory Committee meeting and the Working Group on further strengthening the review process, and served on two national delegations.
In a side event held on the margins of the NPT Preparatory Committee meeting in Vienna experts and senior officials discussed the origins and implementation of the IAEA’s Seven Pillars for Nuclear Safety and Security.
The VCDNP and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the International Organisations in Vienna hosted an NPT PrepCom side event focused on feminist foreign policy and nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
Research Associate Louis Reitmann recommends measures for the NSG to enhance its transparency and outreach and explains how this will help to universalise and implement the NSG Guidelines in WorldECR, the leading journal on export controls and sanctions.
VCDNP staff participated in seven sessions during the 2023 INMM-ESARDA Annual Meeting, including presentations on the safeguards implications of the war in Ukraine, corporate nuclear governance, partnerships in safeguards, and previous VCDNP research projects.
In a recent UNIDIR paper, Senior Fellow Angela Kane discusses her personal experience as UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs in 2013-2014 consultations on the Middle East WMD-Free Zone Conference.
In their food-for-thought paper, Thomas Markram, CNS, and the VCDNP’s Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova review which aspects of the review process are in greater need of improvement and where changes are most feasible.
Senior Research Associate Dr. Hanna Notte addressed the implications of the war in Ukraine for non-proliferation prospects in the Middle East at the Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn.
The VCDNP held a mini-course for Vienna-based ambassadors on nuclear issues, hosted by Ambassador Pirkko Hämäläinen, Permanent Representative of Finland to the International Organisations in Vienna.
Following the AUKUS countries’ announcement of their intention to move forward with the provision of nuclear powered submarines to Australia, Research Associate Noah Mayhew published his analysis in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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