UN's Role in the Global Disarmament Agenda

About

Speaker: Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

In this conversation with Christina Davis (Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Director and Professor of Government), Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Nakamitsu will address the goals of elimination of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and strict control of conventional weapons. She will also discuss opportunities and challenges of multilateral agreements and norm-setting in disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation.

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP); it is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the International Security Program. 

Please register in advance via Zoom:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IZ_PcPHoQCSk4Y7g5-Cbwg

Contact

For more information, email the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Program at astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu.