Australia, New Zealand and Pacific launch of:
Assuring our Common Future:
Parliamentary Handbook on Disarmament for Security and Sustainable Development
Tuesday June 29, 2021. 3:30-5:30pm New Zealand time.
Online round-table meeting for parliamentarians and parliamentary officials from the Pacific region.
Hosted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union New Zealand Group and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
About the Handbook
Assuring our Common Future is an important resource for parliaments to support disarmament for security and sustainable development. The handbook provides background and examples of effective policies and parliamentary actions on a wide range of disarmament issues including weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons, small arms and light weapons, future weapon technologies and disarmament in outer space and cyber space.
It follows UN Secretary-General António Guterres 2018 report, Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament, which outlined a set of goals and practical measures across the entire range of disarmament issues, including weapons of mass destruction, conventional arms and future weapon technologies.
The roundtable meeting
This round-table meeting will be chaired by the Inter-Parliamentary Union New Zealand Group’s Louisa Wall MP. It will include some opening comments to introduce the handbook and disarmament topics of relevance in the Pacific region. This will be followed by open discussion amongst participants.
Opening comments by:
- Hon. Phil Twyford MP, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control, New Zealand (opening address)
- Moetai Brotherson MP, Member of the French National Assembly (from Tahiti);
- Philip Alpers, Adjunct Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health. Programme Director for the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction. Founder of GunPolicy.org;
- Shatabhisha Shetty, Director of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN);
- Alyn Ware, PNND Global Coordinator and editor of the parliamentary handbook.
This is a closed event for parliamentarians, parliamentary officials and some invited experts. It will be run under Chatham House rules in order to provide space for parliamentarians to freely discuss these issues. Participation by invitation only. Contact PNND or IPU NZ Section to request participation.
View the handbook at www.disarmamenthandbook.org.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union contributed to the handbook in partnership with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Parliamentarians for Global Action, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons and the World Future Council, supported by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.