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March 30, 2017
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Preambular Provisions on Normative Development in Disarmament Treaties: Relevance to Nuclear Weapons Ban

Commentary by Matthew Bolton, Director of Pace University’s International Disarmament Institute in an interactive session on the preamble during the UN negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban treaty. Thank you for the President’s kind invitation for input from academia, echoed by several delegations … Continue reading

March 30, 2017
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Op-Ed: The Case for Positive Obligations in the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

Republished from Nuclear Ban Daily, 1(4), pp. 2-3. The case for the nuclear weapons ban treaty has been rooted in the traditions of international humanitarian law and humanitarian disarmament law, which bind states to acknowledging the suffering caused by war, … Continue reading

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