This primer explores how Nuclear Weapon States and Non-Nuclear Weapon States have invoked the concept of “responsibility” in the context of the NPT, analysing its evolving use to address security challenges, foster shared norms, and promote collaborative efforts for nuclear risk reduction amidst rising threats and strained global relations.
Publication
Rethinking European Security: Vilnius Workshop Report
In March 2024, in partnership with Rethinking Security, BASIC hosted a track 1.5 workshop in Vilnius, Lithuania to discuss the present and future of European security.
Mapping the Influence of Disruptive Technologies on Future Arms Control Agreements
This report details how emerging technologies will drastically change the world in which nuclear weapons exist, but not the weapons themselves.
Report: De-siloing Existential Threats II: Tracking the Interconnections Between Global Dangers
This report presents findings and policy recommendations from four EVN focus groups on interconnected existential threats and explores legislative strategies for collective mitigation.
Anthology: Strengthening the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Agenda within the NPT
The EVN Anthology ‘Strengthening the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Agenda within the NPT’ presents a range of policy recommendations and valuable insights in the context of strengthening the HINW agenda within the NPT.
Report: NATO and Climate Change: Towards a Joint Understanding and Response
This report shows that different states have different approaches to climate change and security. It suggests that some states still consider climate change effects on security of less importance than traditional considerations, or perhaps that some states believe that adapting their war fighting ability to the effects of climate change is detracting from its primary responsibility of protecting and defending the state.
Report: Crisis Prevention and Management in South Asia: Mutual Confidence, Risk, and Responsibility
‘Crisis Prevention and Management in South Asia: Mutual Confidence, Risk, and Responsibility’ emerged from a series of dialogues with the Indian and Pakistani nuclear policy communities at the Track 2 / 1.5 level held by the BASIC-ICCS Programme on Nuclear Responsibilities in 2023-2024.
EVN Away Day: The Student/Young Pugwash Conference 27/01/2024
On Saturday the 27th of January, several EVN Members presented at the 7th annual SYP Conference at King’s College London titled: “Artificial Intelligence: implications for peace and security”. Read the report on the EVN Member Presentations.