Following the end to Liberia’s 14-year civil war in 2003, the current challenge is to successfully resettle and reintegrate its displaced population. Central to this, and essential in terms of long-term peace and sustainable development, will be the disarmament, demobilisation, reintegration and rehabilitation (DDRR) of young ex-combatants. If the DDRR programme is to be a success in Liberia, t...

Increasing attention has been focused in recent years on the need for multilateral negotiation processes in the disarmament and arms control field to “think outside the box” in addressing contemporary challenges. But beyond recognition that there are imperfections in current approaches, it is not always clear that the parameters of the existing box are sufficiently understood or, indeed, what t...

The Adelphi Paper Abolishing Nuclear Weapons will play an important part in the whole nuclear disarmament initiative that was kicked off in 2007 by a combination of the Hoover Institution and Nuclear Threat Initiative's " Reykjavik Revisited " project; the Kissinger–Nunn–Perry–Shultz op-ed articles in the Wall Street Journal; Margaret Beckett's keynote address at have woven a strong fabric of p...