David Franco

David Franco is a Research Assistant in the Disarmament and Globalisation programme at the SOAS Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy where he is coordinating SCRAP. He is also Editor and Col

Disarmament is more practical than we are conditioned to think

As attention shifts to the NATO summit in Chicago, a statement by sixteen non nuclear weapons states, including Switzerland and Norway - an ally of the nuclear weapons states, says that nuclear weapons and programmes have catastrophic humanitarian consequences and should be abolished.

By Dan Plesch and David Franco

/ 11 May 2012

SCRAP-GDAMS: realising global disarmament

Governments and the military industrial complex continue to do business as usual and such business is fostering conflict and war around the world. The year 2011 was particularly conflictive and 2012 is reaching new alarming levels, particularly in the Middle East. Sino-American relations remain te

By David Franco

/ 12 Apr 2012