NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security

NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security

"For more than thirty years, the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security has provided services and facilities to hundreds of citizens' groups concerned with the peace and disarmament activities of the United Nations." 

Staff
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 * Jim Nelson, Co-President
 * Vernon C. Nichols, Co-President
 * Ann Hallan Lakhdhir, Vice President for Program
 * Masako London, Vice President
 * Sohrab Kheradi, Vice President
 * Melissa J. Gillis, Editor of "Disarmament Times"
 * Nancy Colton, Secretary
 * Hiroyuki Sakurai, Treasurer

Funding
"The NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security has received support over the years from several foundations. These include: the Ploughshares Fund, Ford Foundation, Boehm Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust, Newman's Own, and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Committee also receives support from individual missions to the UN and from individual donors and membership fees." 

Board of Directors
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 * Bernard Bellush, World Veterans Federation
 * Newton Bowles, Group of 78, Canadian United Nations Association
 * Selma Brackman, War and Peace Foundation
 * Caroline Bridgman-Rees, Center for International Peace-Building
 * John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
 * Shirley Chesney, Peace Action
 * Nancy Colton, International Association for Volunteer Effort and Co-Secretary
 * Eryl Court, Voice of Women,Canada
 * Peter J. Davies, Saferworld
 * Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists
 * Sr. Florence Deacon, Franciscans International
 * Sr. Jean Fallon, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
 * Jonathan Granoff, Lawyers Alliance for World Security
 * Robert James, Center for Defense Information
 * Sohrab Kheradi, UNA-USA, Riverdale Chapter
 * John Kim, Fellowship of Reconciliation
 * Ann Hallan Lakhdhir, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
 * Masako London, Nihon Hidankyo Japan, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
 * Margaret Malkonian, Hague Appeal for Peace
 * Zia Mian, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University
 * Vina Nadjibulla, United Methodist UN Office
 * The Rev. Vernon Nichols, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Sr.
 * John Phelan, Ph.D., Union of Concerned Scientists
 * Myles K. Ren, Ph.D., Economists for Peace and Security
 * The Rev. Koichi Saito, Rissho Kosei-Kai
 * Hiro Sakurai, Soka Gakkai International
 * Eldon Shields, Loretto Community
 * Mary Shoiket, Gray Panthers
 * The Rev. Robert Smylie, World Conference of Religions for Peace
 * Susi Synder, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
 * Archdeacon Tai, Anglican Observer at the United Nations

Contact
Web: http://disarm.igc.org

Recent articles by the Committee
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 * Alyn Ware