A world free from nuclear weapons : the Vatican conference on disarmament / Drew Christiansen, SJ, and Carole Sargent, editors.

"A conference from the Holy See's Disastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, November 10-11, 2017. Nobel laureates, religious leaders, senior diplomats, scholars."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : toward a positive peace / Drew Christiansen, S.J. -- Address of His Holiness Pope Francis -- Address of Cardinal Pietro Parolin -- Surviving the atomic bomb / Masako Wada -- Hiroshima heritage and the role of companies in city reconstruction : how this experience shaped today's values / Bruno Mueller -- To His Holiness Pope Francis on the occasion of the international conference -- Nuclear weapons : confronting armageddon / Mohamed ElBaradei -- For the disarmament of injustice (Por el desarme de la injusticia) / Adolfo Pérez Esquivel -- Would human beings survive another century? / Muhammad Yunus -- The achievement that the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons can offer for the future work of NGOs / Beatrice Fihn -- Nukes, landmines and killer robots / Jody Williams -- The peace process in Northern Ireland / Mairead Corrigan-Maguire -- The UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Ban Nuclear Weapons : a debate / Rose Gottemoeller -- Beyond nuclear deterrence : transforming the U.S.-Russian equation / Alexei Georgevich Arbatov -- International diplomacy and international security issues / Izumi Nakamitsu -- The humanitarian initiative as a condition for the ban on nuclear weapons / François Bugnion -- The role of civil society / Susi Snyder -- The risks of nuclear war today (by mistake, miscalculation, escalation...) / Paolo Cotta-Ramusino -- Reconciliation and disarmament / Marie-Noëlle Koyara -- Dealing with weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East / Emily Landau -- Nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolving the deadlock / Ayman Khalil -- The role of international diplomacy and international organizations / Thomas Stelzer -- We must do no less / Monsignor Robert W. McElroy -- Transforming the human spirit / Hiromasa Ikeda -- Migrations and wars / Monica Attias -- The social and moral responsibilities of knowledge workers / Fr. Drew Christiansen, S.J. -- Salutations / H.E. Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson -- Afterword : the Holy See and nuclear disarmament : achievements and challenges / H.E. Archbishop S.M. Tomasi.

"In November 2017 Pope Francis made the first declaration in the nuclear area rejecting the possession of nuclear weapons, even as a form of deterrence. To set the stage for this statement, he hosted a conference at the Vatican. Under the leadership of Cardinal Turkson, a charismatic priest from Ghana and potential future pope, religious and secular leaders came together, from representatives of NATO and Russia to members of ICAN who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, to make an historic statement about the unacceptability of nuclear arms. One of the last speakers was a hibakusha, a survivor of Hiroshima. This book collects the official statements made during that conference. Beginning with Francis' own words, it includes contributions from Nobel Laureates Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Muhammad Yunus, Mohamed El Baradei, and Mairead Maguire, as well as essays by Cardinal Turkson and Nato Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller"--

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