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1 John Borrie & Tim Caughley, After Oslo: Humanitarian Perspectives and the Changing Nuclear Weapons Discourse 1 (2013)

handle is hein.unl/aftoslo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: kla! 1 Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Corference: humanitarian impact of nudear weapons<. After Oslo: Humanitarian Perspectives and the Changing Nuclear Weapons Discourse John Borrie, Senior Researcher and Policy Adviser Tim Caughley, Resident Senior Fellow Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons project paper no. 3 Summary This paper examines recent international policy discourse concerning new initiatives on nuclear disarmament that draw primarily from, or are influenced by, humanitarian concerns about the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. In particular, it analyses recent criticism from the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT)'s five nuclear-weapon states that these initiatives constitute distractions from a practical step-by-step approach towards nuclear weapons reductions. Introduction Recently, the humanitarian consequences of the detonation of nuclear weapons have become the renewed focus of widespread international attention. One concrete manifestation of this was Norway's hosting of an international conference in Oslo from 4 to 5 March 2013 to explore those impacts. Almost 130 states, United Nations humanitarian and development agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and civil society organizations (coordinated by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)) attended this event.' The Oslo Conference was centred on expert presentations about the various humanitarian impacts stemming from detonation of nuclear weapons and not disarmament themes. Many participating states and other actors nevertheless expressed hopes that more international emphasis on the effects of nuclear weapons would contribute to greater momentum for reductions and eventually total elimination of these arms. However, the Oslo Conference was also subject to criticism of various kinds from five governments declining to attend: the NPT nuclear-weapon states-China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Their key criticism was that initiatives such as the Oslo Conference divert discussion away from practical steps to create conditions for further nuclear weapons reductions. <

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