History

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Alyn Ware

The Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) was initiated by the Middle Powers Initiative (MPI) in 2001 to help parliamentarians, an increasingly vital constituency, understand the details and appreciate the urgency of nuclear threats.

PNND provides guidance and helps parliamentarians effectively utilize their positions to advance domestic and international disarmament. PNND and MPI both became programs of the Global Security Institute in early 2002, and share the same steering committee. Since then PNND has more than doubled its membership and has spread to more than 40 countries. Outreach to parliamentarians has been assisted considerably by PNND’s regional coordinators, Hiro Umebayashi (East Asia) and Karel Koster (Europe).

PNND members have been actively promoting disarmament in their own parliaments and courts, in the media and civil society, and in a number of international forums including the United Nations General Assembly, Non-Proliferation Treaty meetings, the European Parliament, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and regional Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone bodies.

- Alyn Ware
Global Coordinator