January 11, 2018
Seminar with Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gómez
Hosted by William Potter
Video Seminar: Took place on December 4, 2017, at CNS of MIIS in Monterey.
“We wanted to change the world,” Ambassador Elayne Whyte Goméz MAIPS ’93 said of herself and her classmates 24 years ago to an audience of students, faculty, staff and community members. That aspiration continues to fuel her work. Ambassador Whyte is a career diplomat who has recently served as Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations Office in Geneva. Earlier this year, she successfully led the negotiation of the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
CNS Events and News on the TPNW
- The Role of NWFZs and the TPNW Towards Global Nuclear Weapon EliminationA video with speaker María Antonieta Jáquez Huacuja, Deputy General Director for Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control, Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.
- The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW): a virtual special issue of the Nonproliferation Review.
- Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez on Negotiating the TPNW: A View from 2018Ambassador Elayne Whyte Goméz is interviewed about her presiding over the negotiation of a legally binding instrument to ban nuclear weapons—the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
- The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: What’s NextWEBINAR: Speakers address the treaty’s impact on nuclear disarmament and the international nonproliferation regime.
- Ambassador Gómez Reflects on Negotiating the Nuclear Weapons Ban TreatyVIDEO: Seminar with Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gómez.
- The Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: Negotiations and BeyondGaukhar Mukhatzhanova examines the new nuclear disarmament treaty in this month’s Arms Control Today.
- MIIS Alumna Presides Over Negotiation of Nuclear Weapons Ban TreatyMIIS alumna Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez facilitated the adoption of a treaty banning nuclear weapons.