Towards a global ban on nuclear weapons – The Role of African States

From 5-6 June 2012, the International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) in collaboration with the Institute for Security Studies hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “Towards a global ban on nuclear weapons – The Role of African States”, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.




For more information about the event, download the documents below:

• Chairpersons summary of the proceedings
• ILPI discussion paper on Towards a Global ban on nuclear weapons – The role of African states
• ILPI background paper by Helle Winge Laursen on An IntroductIon to the Issue of Nuclear Weapons in Africa

Nuclear Weapons and their Consequences: The Relevance of International Humanitarian Law

Noel Stott, Senior Research Fellow, Transnational Threats and International Crime 

According to the African Union (AU), the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems remains one of the greatest threats to international peace and security. This was reaffirmed during the recent preparatory committee (PrepCom) meeting for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), held from 30 April to 11 May 2012 in Vienna. At the meeting the AU also reaffirmed Africa’s continued commitment to realising the goals and objectives of the NPT; to a world without nuclear weapons in which nuclear science and technology is [only] harnessed for the development of humankind.