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December 12th, 2011
Why it's time for a serious conversation about nuclear weapons
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-edWriting in the San Francisco Chronicle, Benoît Pelopidas says we must review and debunk "three misguided ideas about nuclear weapons."
November 1st, 2011
Stanford's Weinstein reflects on shaping Obama's foreign policy
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, CISAC in the newsAfter two years as President Barack Obama’s director for development and democracy at the National Security Council, Jeremy Weinstein is back at Stanford as an associate professor of political science. Read more »
April 18th, 2011
Leonard Weiss: The U.S. may have hid Israel's nuclear test
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsCISAC's Leonard Weiss, a former staff director for the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator John Glenn, provides a first-hand account.
January 27th, 2011
Ethics and War: Why So Many Civilians Are Dying
There are more laws and international treaties designed to protect human rights in conflict zones than ever before. Yet civilians continue to pay the ultimate price, with women and children frequently caught in the crossfire. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was one civilian casualty for every eight or nine military casualties, said Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist who played a key role in helping his country overcome apartheid, served as the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals on Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and became a household name in 2009 for his controversial fact-finding mission after an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. During World War II, the ratio increased to 1-to-1. Today, after what was, Goldstone said, a "very bloody century," every combatant casualty is matched by nine civilian deaths. What explains this? Goldstone joined Stanford historian James Campbell and Peter Berkowitz, a political scientist, to grapple with this paradox as part of Stanford's Ethics and War Series, co-sponsored by the Center for International Security and Cooperation. 
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July 22nd, 2010
Kate Marvel named 2010-2011 Perry Fellow
Press ReleaseThe Perry Fellowship honors an early or mid-career researcher from the United States or abroad with a record of "outstanding work in natural science, engineering or mathematics...who is dedicated to solving international security problems." Read more »
November 12th, 2008
Transitions 2009 conference to focus on action plan for President-elect Obama
CISAC's Stephen Stedman, Bruce Jones from NYU and Carlos Pascual from the Brookings Institution will unveil a "plan for action" for President-elect Obama to tackle emerging transnational threats at FSI's annual conference Nov. 13. The plan is part of "Managing Global Insecurity," a project launched in 2007 that seeks to build international support for institutions and partnerships that can help foster peace and security for the next 50 years. Read more »
June 29th, 2007
Activism is medicine's vital 'fourth dimension,' CISAC scholar tells graduates
in the news: Stanford Report on June 20, 2007Addressing Stanford School of Medicine's 2007 graduates, Herbert Abrams, CISAC member-in-residence, spoke of activism as medicine's "fourth dimension" after patient care, research, and teaching. Abrams, who received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, of which he was founding vice-president, shared examples from his own career. 
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