Why common security is back on the agenda
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Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the ground-breaking Palme Commission Report, which introduced the concept of ‘common security’ into a world dominated by the Cold War, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, and the existential threat of a nuclear winter.
Olof Palme was one of my early heroes – a Swedish prime minister who epitomised the vibrant generation of social democrats that included the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former German chancellor Willy Brandt, the former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke, and the former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland.
Palme’s Commission began the process of reducing tensions and thawing that led to a Cold War warrior like the former US president Ronald Reagan reaching key arms control agreements with the reforming Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
HONORARY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL The Rio de Janeiro International Uranium Film Festival 2021 has awarded two in the world of nuclear disarmament well known personalities with the festival’s Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award: Sérgio Duarte, former Brazilian diplomat who served as Ambassador in several countries and has dedicated his life to end…