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Commentary by Amb (Ret'd) Paul Meyer
Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation
Published by Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper
November 9, 2011

Opinion by Amb (Ret'd) Paul Meyer
Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation
Published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
September 19, 2011

Remarks by Jennifer Allen Simons, CM., Ph.D., LL.D.
Simons Symposium on European Security and Nuclear Disarmament 
59th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs:
Euopean Contributions to Nuclear Disarmament & Conflict Resolution
Berlin, Germany
July 1-4, 2011

Opinion by Amb (Ret'd) Paul Meyer
Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation
Published by Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper
February 2, 2011

Complete results of the global study from The Simons Foundation in partnership with Angus Reid Strategies
October 2008

Keynote address by Jayantha Dhanapala
International Conference: Building a Nuclear Weapon Free World
Astana, Kazakhstan

Amb. (Ret.) Jayantha Dhanapala, former Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations, is President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and one of The Simons Foundation's Peace Shapers as a previous recipient of The Simons Foundation Award for Distinguished Global Leadership in the Service of Peace and Disarmament.

August 23, 2016
The current Canadian Defence Policy Review is not focused on questions of disarmament and arms control; Global Affairs Canada is the lead agency on those issues, and it would do well, by the way, to undertake a thorough review of related policies and priorities. Defence policies and postures do nevertheless help to either strengthen or undermine disarmament prospects. A case in point is NATO’s nuclear posture. Canada is involved as a NATO member and as a participant in NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group and as a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as well, Canada has a responsibility to pursue alliance defence policies and practices that are conducive to full implementation of the NPT and ending NATO’s reliance on nuclear deterrence. That would in turn also advance the individual and collective security interests of NATO member states, including Canada, and all the states of the Euro-Atlantic. 

It is little credit to the practice of diplomacy in Europe and North America that their military alliance has been allowed to become the primary institution through which they now seek to understand and engage Russia. NATO defines the Russian threat and prescribes the response – habitually reorganizing, rebranding, and redeploying military forces which, if they ever came to serious blows with their Russian counterparts, would leave in their wake a trail of destruction out of all proportion to the political, economic, territorial, or moral interests and values at stake. Canada, as a part of both NATO and the wider Euro-Atlantic community, has a role to play in righting east-west relations, but is a battle group in Latvia the best option?

Remarks by Paul Meyer
Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation
Space Security Conference 2012: Laying the Groundwork for Progress
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Geneva, Switzerland
March 29-30, 2012
 

Speech by Jennifer Allen Simons, C.M., Ph.D., LL.D.
Pugwash Workshop: Science and Social Responsibility: Rising Problems, Wise Initiatives
UNESCO Headquarters
Paris, France
March 14 - 15, 2012