Publications

Where Our Defense Money Goes
By Bob Edgar and Bill Goodfellow, Boston Globe, August 5, 2009. Bob Edgar, a former Congressman, addressed the PSFG Federal Policy Briefing in March.

Obama to Chair UN Meeting on Nonproliferation
By Edith M. Lederer, AP, August 4, 2009

Recommended UN Security Council Actions to Advance Nuclear Disarmament
By John Burroughs, Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy, July 2009

Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide to Smart Philanthropy
By Paul Brest and Hal Harvey. Paul Brest, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, addressed PSFG members during an Expert Briefing Conference Call in June.

Global Peace Index 2009

Building Blocks of Peace
Downloadable teaching materials from the Institute for Economics and Peace, 2009

From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence - A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
By the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Federation of American Scientists, April 2009

Transforming the U.S. Strategic Posture and Weapons Complex for Transition to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
Prepared by the Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation (NWCC) Policy Network, including NRDC, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley CARES, and others, April 2009

Smarter Grantmaking in Challenging Economic Times
By Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, May 2009

Funding and Fostering Local Democracy: What philanthropy should know about the emerging field of deliberation and democratic governance
By Matt Leighninger, presented by Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, April 2009

From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment
By the United Nations Environment Programme, 2009

Back from the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan
An Asia Society Task Force Report, April 2009

The Future of Afghanistan
Edited by J. Alexander Thier, United States Institute of Peace, 2009

The End of Exceptionalism in War Crimes: The International Criminal Court and America’s Credibility in the World
By David Scheffer, Richard Cooper and Juliette Voinov Kohler
Harvard International Review, August 12, 2007

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation
By Charles Piller, Edmund Sanders and Robyn Dixon, Times Staff Writers
Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2007

Are We Safer? Five Years After the September 11th Attacks
Published by the Security Policy Working Group, October 2006

Confronting the Spector of Nuclear Terrorism
Edited by Graham Allison, September 2006

US in the World: Talking Global Issues with Americans

Peace and Security Community Priorities for Collaborative Action, 2007