Event Date: October 23, 2023 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: FSS 4007, 120 University Private, University of Ottawa

Read the related Policy Brief by Tariq Rauf here.

Presented by Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention and Centre for International Policy Studies

Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention and Centre for International Policy Studies invite you to a lecture by Tariq Rauf, a leading global expert on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. His lecture will focus on the heightened risks inherent in the large and continually “modernizing” nuclear arsenals of the major powers and point to the policies and actions needed to make meaningful progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

Followed by a reception at 5:30 pm
The event will be in English.

CNWC is a civil society initiative sponsored by the Canadian Pugwash Group and endorsed by more than 1,000 recipients of the Order of Canada, calling on Canada to work for the start of comprehensive negotiations on the agreements, regulations, institutional arrangements, and verification measures essential for accomplishing the prohibition and irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons.

Please note that this a hybrid event – participation can be in person or online.

Invited speaker:

Tariq Rauf is the former Head of Verification and Security Policy at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and former Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Among his many appointments, Mr. Rauf has served as consultant and senior advisor to successive Review Conferences of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the UN General Assembly’s Committee I (nuclear disarmament), and the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). Earlier in his career, Mr. Rauf was Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Arms Control and Disarmament in Ottawa and has served as Expert/Advisor to Canadian delegations to NPT Review Conferences. He is currently a Vienna-based member of the Board of Directors of Atomic Reporters and the International Advisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on preventing nuclear catastrophe. He mentors young diplomats in nuclear disarmament topics.

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