Signatories to the Vancouver Declaration
(as of February 15, 2013; * = current affiliation listed for purpose of identification only)
Initiating Organizations
Jennifer Allen Simons, C.M., Ph.D., LL.D., President, The Simons Foundation, Vancouver
Peter Weiss, Vice President, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA),
and Christopher G. Weeramantry, President of IALANA; former Vice President, International
Court of Justice
Judges, Lawyers, Law Professors
Jennie Abell, Law Professor
Waheed Ahmad, Advocate High Court, and Director Human Rights, Pakistan Labour Federation
Ian Anderson, Board of Directors, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP), New York
André Andries, former First Advocate-General by the Military Court of Belgium and Honorary
President of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War,* Brussels
Tara Ashtakala, Ottawa
Frank Askin, Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law, Newark,* USA
Mohammed Bedjaoui, former President of the International Court of Justice, Paris
Carl D. Birman, LCNP Consultative Council
John Burroughs, Ph.D., LCNP Executive Director; Director, UN Office of IALANA
Michael Byers, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law,
University of British Columbia*
Theodora Carroll, Squamish, Canada
Roger S. Clark, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers Law School, Camden,* USA
Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law,* USA
Lynda M. Collins, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa,* Canada
Eric David, Professor Emeritus, Université libre de Bruxelles*
Diane Davidson, Vancouver
Liz Davies, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, UK
Dr. Dieter Deiseroth, Judge, Federal Administration Court of Germany
("Bundesverwaltungsgericht")*; Academic Council of IALANA Germany
Beverley J. T. Delong, President, Lawyers for Social Responsibility, Canada; Chairperson, Canadian
Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Mona Duckett, QC, Barrister, Dawson, Stevens, Duckett & Shaigec,* Edmonton, Canada
Louise Doswald-Beck, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies,* and Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human
Rights*
Anabel Dwyer, LCNP Board of Directors
Richard Falk, Albert G. Milibank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University,*
USA
Dr. Juan E. Garcés, Spain, Right Livelihood Award 1999
Elaine Gibson, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University,* Canada
Nicholas Grief, Professor, Kent Law School,* UK, and Doughty Street Chambers,* London
Neshan Gunesekera, Director, South Asia Office, IALANA, Sri Lanka
Richard J. Harvey, Garden Court Chambers,* London
Peg James, Burnaby, Canada
Paul Joffe, Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada
Rebecca Johnson, Professor of Law, University of Victoria,* Canada
Hugh Kindred, Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University,* Canada
Marcelo Kohen, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and
Developmental Studies,* Geneva
Peter D. Larlee, Vancouver
Nicole LaViolette, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa,* Canada
Andrew Lichterman, Board of Directors, Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF), Oakland,
California, USA
John Liss, Toronto
Kathleen Mahoney, Trudeau Fellow and Professor of Law, University of Calgary,* Canada
Saul Mendlovitz, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and World Order Studies Emeritus, Rutgers
School of Law, Newark,* USA; Vice President, LCNP
Howard Meyer, LCNP Consultative Council
France Morrissette, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa,* Canada
Charles J. Moxley, Jr., Professor of Law (Adjunct), Fordham University School of Law,* New York;
LCNP Board of Directors
Ved Nanda, Evans University Professor, Nanda Center for International and Comparative Law,
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, USA
Osamu Niikura, Professor, Law School, Aoyama Gakuin University*; President, Japan Lawyers
International Solidarity Association; Secretary General of International Association of
Democratic Lawyers
Phyllis Olin, WSLF Board of Directors
Andrew J. Orkin, Hamilton, Canada
Marion M. Perrin, Toronto
James Pope, Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law, Newark,* USA
Bill Quigley, Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights,* New York, and Professor of Law,
Loyola University New Orleans*
Tim Quigley, Saskatoon, Canada
Guy Quinlan, Chair, All Souls Nuclear Disarmament Task Force, New York; LCNP Board of
Directors
James Ranney, former Professor of Law, University of Montana, USA; LCNP Board of Directors
Simon Reeves, IALANA Board of Directors, New Zealand
Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Founder and Head, Doughty Street Chambers, London
Sharmila Sekarajasekaran, Malaysia
Elizabeth Shafer, LCNP Vice-President
Elizabeth Sheehy, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa,* Canada
Penelope Simons, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa,* Canada
James Stewart, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia,* Canada
Andrew Strauss, Distinguished Professor of Law, Widener University School of Law,* USA
Andrey Talevlin, Director, Lawyers for Nature, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Kenji Urata, Professor Emeritus, Waseda University,* Japan
Rob van Riet, Coordinator, Disarmament Working Group, World Future Council, London
Carlos Vargas Pizarro, San Jose, Costa Rica; IALANA Vice-President
Michael Veiluva, WSLF Foundation Counsel
Alan Webb, IALANA Board of Directors, New Zealand
Burns H. Weston, Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior
Scholar, UI Center for Human Rights (UICHR), The University of Iowa,* USA
Roland Weyl, Droit Solidarité,* France; First Vice-President, International Association of
Democratic Lawyers
Toshinori Yamada, Lecturer, School of Law, Meiji University,* Japan
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Jules Zacher, USA
Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños, Costa Rica
Former Diplomats and Officials
Nobuyasu Abe, Professor and Director, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and
Nonproliferation, The Japan Institute of International Affairs*; former UN Under-SecretaryGeneral for Disarmament Affairs and former Ambassador of Japan
Hon. Lloyd Axworthy, PC, OC, OM
Jayantha Dhanapala, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs; former
Ambassador of Sri Lanka
Hon. Gareth Evans, AO, QC, Chancellor, Australian National University*; Professorial Fellow,
University of Melbourne*; Co-Chair, International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation
and Disarmament (2008-2010); President Emeritus International Crisis Group*; former
Foreign Minister of Australia
Robert T. Grey, Jr., former US Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament; Director, Bipartisan
Security Group,* USA
Margaret (Peggy) Mason, former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
Paul Meyer, former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
Hon. Matthew Robson, Barrister, Former Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control of New
Zealand
Hon. Douglas Roche, OC, former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
Henrik Salander, former Head of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Swedish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs; Senior Advisor, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)*
Christopher Westdal, former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
Parliamentarians
Abdullah Abdullah, Palestinian Legislative Council and Chairman of Political Committee
Lyn Allison, former Senator, Australian Parliament; Alumni Council Member, Parliamentarians for
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND)*
Angelika Beer, Chair, Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention (EWI)
Frieda Brepoels, Member of the European Parliament, and Chair of PNND delegation to the
European Parliament*
Brendon Burns, MP Aotearoa-New Zealand
Saber Chowdhury, Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change and Environment,
Bangladesh Parliament; First Vice President of Inter Parliamentary Union's Standing
Committee on Peace and International Security*
Senator David Coltart, Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture,* Zimbabwe
Jeremy Corbyn, MP, United Kingdom
Dr. Kennedy Graham MP, List MP for the Green Party, Aotearoa New Zealand*
Bill Kidd, Member of Scottish Parliament
Hallgeir H. Langeland, MP Norway
Holger K. Nielsen, MP Denmark
Bill Siksay MP Canada; Chair, Canadian Section PNND*
Hon. Maryan Street, MP Aotearoa-New Zealand
Civil Society Organizations
Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor, City of Hiroshima; President, Mayors for Peace
Annelies Allain, Director, International Code Documentation Centre, Penang, Malaysia
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Marcos Arana Cedeño, Centro de Capacitacion en Ecologia y Salud para Campesinos/Defensoria del
Derecho a la Salud, Chiapas, Mexico
Reiner Braun, Director, European Office, IALANA
Richard Butler, AC, former Australian Ambassador for Disarmament; Chairman of the Canberra
Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (1995-96); Chairman, Middle Powers
Initiative
Jacqueline Cabasso, Sean MacBride Peace Prize 2008; Executive Director, Western States Legal
Foundation, Oakland, California, USA
George Farebrother, Secretary, World Court Project UK
FUNAM - Fundacion para la defensa del ambiente, Cordoba, Argentina
Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute, USA
David T. Ives, Executive Director, The Albert Schweitzer Institute, USA
Rebecca E. Johnson, Ph.D., Director, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, UK
David Krieger, Ph.D., President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, USA
Ida Kuklina, Union of Soldiers’ Mothers Committee of Russia, Right Livelihood Award 1996
Tomas Magnusson, Co-President, International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Prize 1910
Ron McCoy, Malaysian Physicians for Social Responsibility
Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace; President, Mehta Centre, London
Nataliya Mironova, Ph.D., President, Movement for Nuclear Safety, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Madeleine Rees, Secretary General, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Dave Robinson, Executive Director, Pax Christi USA
Hiro Sakurai, President, NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security, New York
Jürgen Scheffran, Vice Chair, Executive Committee, International Network of Engineers and
Scientists for Global Responsibility
Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation New York; LCNP Board of Directors
Vappu Taipale (Finland), Sergey Kolesnikov (Russia), Robert Mtonga (Zambia), Co-Presidents,
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Nobel Peace Prize 1985
Hirotsugu Terasaki, Executive Director, Office of Peace Affairs, Soka Gakkai International, Tokyo,
Japan
Jakob von Uexkull, Founder and Chair, World Future Council
Hiro Umebayashi, Special Advisor, Peace Depot, Japan
Alyn Ware, Right Livelihood Award 2009, Director, Pacific Office, IALANA
Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares, Right Livelihood Award 2001
Gabino Zavala, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and President, Pax Christi USA;
Dave Robinson, Executive Director, Pax Christi USA
Robert Zuber, Ph.D., Director, Global Action to Prevent War
Individuals
Dr. Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Indonesia
Dipal C. Barua, Founder & Chairman, Bright Green Energy Foundation,* Bangladesh
Nnimmo Bassey, Right Livelihood Award 2010, Nigeria
Josef Pepe W. Beerli, Kuessnacht, Switzerland
Carmel Budiardjo, Right Livelihood Award 1995, UK
Annabel Champetier, France
Tad Daley, Writing Fellow, IPPNW, USA
Heather Davison, Board of Directors, Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland, California, USA
Trevor Findlay, Director, Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance, Carleton University,* Canada
Pierre Jasmin, President of Artistes pour la Paix,* Montreal
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Alice Teppler Martin, USA, Right Livelihood Award 1990
Ben Manski, Executive Director, Liberty Tree Foundation,* USA
Sarah Manski, CEO, PosiPair.com,* USA
Siddharth Mallavarapu, Assistant Professor in International Politics, Centre for International Politics,
Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University,* India
Raul Montenegro, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, National University of Cordoba,* Argentina,
Right Livelihood Award 2004
Masashi Nishihara, Ph.D., Japan
Helena Norberg-Hodge, UK
P.K.Raveendran, Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad,* India, Right Livelihood Award 1996
Ernie Regehr, OC, Research Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel
University College, University of Waterloo,* Canada; Fellow, The Simons Foundation; CoFounder, Project Ploughshares*
Steven Starr MT (ASCP), Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility,* Clinical Laboratory
Science Program Director, University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics,* USA
Cheikh Sylla, Ambassador at large, Senegal*
John F. Charlewood Turner, Right Livelihood Award 1988, UK
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