Gareth Evans

The president of the International Crisis Group, Evans serves as the co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, a global initiative established in 2008 by Australia and Japan to reenergize high-level political discussion about the elimination of nuclear weapons. Previously, he has chaired many other global commissions, including the U.N. Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change in 2004.

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Articles by Gareth Evans

Opinion
4 February 2009
Nuclear Weapons

Revitalizing high-level nonproliferation and disarmament talks

Gareth Evans

Unproductive blame shifting has dominated the nuclear debate in recent years, frustrating progress and serving only the interests of those who are content to see no movement on nonproliferation and disarmament. Rekindling a spirit of common purpose on the nuclear agenda is an urgent task.

Despite the post-Cold War decline in public attention, the consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation and an indifferent international performance on nuclear disarmament remain potentially catastrophic.