BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network (EVN) is hosting an online launch event for its policy paper report on ‘De-siloing Existential Threats II: Tracking the Interconnections Between Global Dangers’. We are delighted to have Ploughshares Fund’s Director of Programs, Dr. Sara Z. Kutchesfahani, as our keynote speaker for the event.
Register to join us on Monday 23rd September from 15:00 – 16:00 GMT+1/UK Time.
In November 2023, BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network (EVN) launched the second phase of a policy cycle focused on de-siloing existential threats and how they relate to nuclear weapons. With generous support from the Ploughshares Fund, this EVN policy cycle investigated the web of interconnections between existential threats and how all states can better recognise these links and develop policies that reflect these connections. In the previous iteration of this work (Phase I), EVN members tackled the siloing of the nuclear field, investigating issues such as social justice, racism and white supremacy, and environmental impacts.
BASIC organised a focus-group-based policy cycle for EVN members to develop their understanding of these issues and use this to inform policy recommendations for states, Non-State Actors (NGOs), and civil society. This policy cycle examines the intersection of interconnected existential threats and asks how we can legislate to mitigate them on a collective basis.
