Nabil Fahmy is Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States of America and former Head of Egypt’s delegation to the Middle East Arms Control and Regional Security talks (ACRS). Ambassdaor Fahmy has also served on the Egyptian delegations to the First Main Committee (Disarmament and International Security) of the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Conference ...

The Nonproliferation Review/Winter 1999 20 George Bunn, the first general counsel of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, served on the US delegation that negotiated the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and later became a US ambassador to the Geneva disarmament conference. He is now working on nuclear nonproliferation problems as a consulting professor at the Stanford U...

Jayantha Dhanapala is the Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations. He served as President of the 1995 Nonproliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference. He has also served as the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva and the United States, worked as Director of the Geneva-based United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), and ...

Much recent work in the AI community concerns algorithms for computing optimal mixed strategies to commit to, as well as the deployment of such algorithms in real security applications. Another possibility is to commit not to play certain actions. If only one player makes such a commitment, then this is generally less powerful than completely committing to a single mixed strategy. However, if p...

Korzybski's general semantics recommends considering living beings as organisms-as-a-whole in their environment. Our cognitive abilities, specific to the human species, have thus to be taken into account. In this framework we establish a semantic similarity between particular stressful events of the 20th century and AIDS in which the immune-deficiency-caused is semiotically seen as a biological...

Although armed violence in southern Sudan has diminished since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), civilians are still exposed to comparatively high levels of insecurity. National and local authorities continue to insist on forcible disarmament as a strategy to stabilise the situation. Drawing on the findings of three victimisation surveys, this paper considers the prospects...