July, 20, 2016
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Mexican Foreign Ministry partnered in conducting the third annual Summer School on Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation in Mexico City from July 4-8, 2016. Summer school participants were predominantly young diplomats from 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries and representatives from the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL). The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Matías Romero Institute, and OPANAL provided support to the program.
Panelists and Participants in the Summer School in Mexico Discuss the Nonproliferation Treaty and Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament
The school was opened by Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico Ambassador Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, Vice-President on Academic Affairs and Dean of MIIS Dr. Jeffrey Dayton-Johnson, CNS Director Dr. William Potter, and Director General of the Matías Romero Institute Natalia Saltalamacchia. Dr. Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, gave the key note speech on the opening day. A survivor of the nuclear explosion in Nagasaki, Yamashita Yasuaki, shared with participants his personal recollections about the tragic event and life after it. The agenda included lectures and discussion panels on a broad range of topics central to the current state and the future of the nuclear nonproliferation regime and nuclear disarmament. The list of speakers included US Special Representative for Nonproliferation Ambassador Adam Scheinman, Director General for the United Nations Secretariat of the Mexican Foreign Ministry Ambassador Joel Hernández, Deputy Director General of Disarmament, Non-proliferation, and General Assembly of the Mexican Foreign Ministry María Antonieta Jáquez, Deputy Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations Shorna-Kay Richards (View full text of the presentation), and other government and nongovernmental experts. Speakers and panelists representing the Center for Nonproliferation Studies included Dr. William Potter, Deputy Director Elena Sokova, and Senior Fellow Dr. Nikolai Sokov.
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