Disarmament Insight on GigaDial Public: Recent Episodes
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Our podcasts are aimed at negotiators, policy wonks, activists, researchers and anyone curious about disarmament and human security.
What have 1950s toys, the sinking of Titanic, NASA space shuttles and Richard Feynman got to do with disarmament diplomacy? In this 30 minute presentation from Disarmament Insight?s first workshop with diplomats, activists and others, John Borrie observes that, in life, the answers we get reflect the questions we ask. Do multilateral disarmament practitioners always ask the right questions about what works and what doesn?t in their endeavours? Looking beyond mere analogies, this presentation use
The pioneering conflict researcher Quincy Wright concluded that the main cause of war is the difficulty in organising the institutions of peace. In this thoughtful and frank 20 minute presentation, Dutch diplomat and arms control negotiator Daniël Prins reflects on multilateral disarmament practice drawing, in part, from his own practical experience. In particular, he considers how flexibility and initiative can be encouraged in order to maintain and organise institutions of peace like the Unite
The multilateral system is not working well for many reasons. But for certain tasks in improving human security it remains the only alternative. The conundrum for civil society actors is that, to get things done, they must accept the multilateral system, which itself is often a cause of ineffectiveness and in which they are usually marginalised. David Atwood, Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva, has spent most of his life in peace and social change work. In this talk, he dr
Professor Frans de Waal, one of the world?s foremost primatologists, explores what multilateral practitioners can learn from our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, including the chimpanzee and the bonobo, about negotiating, the nature of conflict and reconciliation.
Professor de Waal is Director of the Living Links Center C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University's Department of Psychology. He has written many books, including Chimpanzee Politics, Peacemaking
In the first half of this edited two-part podcast, Professor Paul Seabright discusses what’s known about levels of violence since prehistoric times as part of a presentation entitled "How have human beings tamed our warring instincts?". Audio on this podcast is accompanied by slides.
This podcast is an edited recording of Professor Seabright’s presentation at a Disarmament Insight symposium on ‘Human Security, Human Nature and Trust-building in Negotiations’ held near Geneva on 25 May 2007.
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