Public Declaration on Peace and Security
To the President of the United States
Mr. President,
Prior to September 11, the U.S. government had embarked on a unilateral course that frequently
disregarded several peace and security treaties. In light of the horrific and tragic events in New York
City, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania, the undersigned people and non-governmental organizations
call upon the United States government to reverse actions that jeopardize international agreements to
prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) bans the development, production and
stockpiling of biological and toxic weapons. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) places limits on the
testing and deployment of defensive systems in order to prevent the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) aims at the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear weapon test explosions and all
other nuclear explosions. We believe that U.S. adherence to these treaties would promote greater security
and peace worldwide.
However, the United States government is undermining all four treaties by rejecting a Verification
Protocol on the BTWC that was to be finalized in November in Geneva and by developing a large
bioweapons research system that may be in violation of the BTWC; by developing missile defenses and
seeking to withdraw from the ABM Treaty; by deploying modified bunker-busting nuclear weapons,
conducting research aimed at making nuclear weapons more useable, and maintaining more than 2,000
nuclear warheads on high alert despite recently reaffirming a commitment to the NPT; and by refusing to
ratify the CTBT. The U.S. also is researching space-based weapons and is resisting international efforts to
ban the placement of weapons in outer space. These actions by the United States threaten peace and
security globally by provoking the development of hostile weapons by other countries in an escalating
arms race.
Therefore, we urge that:
1) The United States rely on multilateral negotiations and the existing body of international law and
treaties to resolve international conflicts.
2) The United States, at the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Review Conference beginning on
November 19th, make an unqualified commitment to uphold Article I, which prohibits all development,
acquisition, and stockpiling of biological agents for hostile purposes, and unequivocally endorse prompt
completion of the draft BTWC Verification Protocol.
3) The United States abide by the terms of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
4) The United States meet its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, in particular Article VI that
calls for complete nuclear disarmament, as unanimously confirmed by the International Court of Justice.
5) The United States maintain its nuclear testing moratorium and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty.
Signatories to the Public Declaration on Peace and Security
United States
Anarchist Action Of Rochester, NY
Cleveland Peace Action
Flyby News
Georgians Against Nuclear Energy, Atlanta, Georgia
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
Grandmothers For Peace/San Luis Obispo County Chapter, CA
Ground Zero Minnesota,
Hanford Watch, Paige Knight, President, Portland, OR
Harambee House, Inc. Project: Citizens For Environmental Justice
Institute For Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis MN
Institute For Energy And Environment Research
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
No Nukes North: Alaskan & Circumpolar Coaltion Against Missile Defense
North American Water Office
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA
Nuclear Watch Of New Mexico
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Organic Consumers Association
Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ
Prairie Island Coalition
Regional Association Of Concerned Environmentalists, IL
Resource Center Of The Americas, MN
San Luis Obispo Mothers For Peace, CA
Sunshine Project
The Peace Farm, TX
Western States Legal Foundation
Aaron G. Lehmer, Director Of Grassroots Globalization Network
Adele Kushner, Action For A Clean Environment
Alanna Hartzok
Alfredo Quarto, Mangrove Action Project
Alice Dubois
Alistair Millar, Vice President Fourth Freedom Forum, Goshen Indiana
Alix Fano, MA, Campaign For Responsible Transplantation
Amy Antonucci, Madbury NH
Amy Best, Iowa
A.V. Krebs, Corporate Agribusiness Research Project, Washington
Andrea M. Garcia
Andrew Harris, M.D.
Ann M. Hendricks
Ann M. Sullivan
Annette Segall, Cleveland Heights, OH
April Cotte, Pacifica, CA
Arnold J. Dahm, Cleveland, OH
Arthur Halenbeck, Ventura, CA
Arjun Makhijani, Institute For Energy And Environment Research
Axel Meyer, Union Concerned Scientists
Beth Burrows, The Edmonds Institute
Bettyann Larson, Worldwide Humanitarian Aid, Apopa Medical Clinic for the
Poor, El Salvador
Bevin Begilmore, Eugene, Oregon
Bill Freese
Bob Kinsey
Bonnie Urfer, The Progressive Foundation
Brenda Bell Brown, MN
Brewster Kneen, Author; Publisher, The Ram's Horn
Brian Schultz, Assoc. Prof. of Ecology and Entomology, Hampshire College, MA
Bridget A.V. Trump
Bruce G. Ferguson, Michigan
Carah Ong
Carol Brouillet, The Who's Counting Project
Carol S. Wolman MD
Carol Thayer Cox, Fredericksburg, VA.
Carolyn Raffensperger, Iowa
Cassandra March
Cecile Johnston, Cabot, VT
Cecile Meyer, DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace & Justice
Cecilia Freeman
Chanda Meek, Boreal Footprint Project
Charles K. Johnson, Center For Energy Research
Christine Shahin-Wood, Director Kids Against Pollution
Christy And Dale Dowdy Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Claire Hope Cummings, Food And Farming Forum, Mill Valley, California
Colin King, Nuclear Watch Of New Mexico, Santa Fe
Dale L Wampler, Huntingdon, PA
Darla R. Sparks, Yukon, Oklahoma,
David C. Korten, People-Centered Development Forum
David K. Hendricks
David Matias
David N. Pyles New England Coalition On Nuclear Pollution
Deborah Kushner
Dennis Thomas, Mount Diablo Peace Center
Dianne Lobes, Ed.D., Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)
Diana Skipworth, Geneva, IL
Director Of Research And Publications Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Don Larkin
Dr Robert Anderson
Dr. And Mrs. Thomas And Annemarie Abowd,Toledo, Ohio
Dr. John E. Gross
Dr. Kathleen Sullivan Co-Ordinator, Nuclear Weapons Education And Action Project
Dr. Mary B. Abu-Saba, NC
Elizabeth Henderson, Peacework Organic Farm, Newark
Elisabeth Hebert, Seattle, WA
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington, DC
Eric Wilson,
Fleur Burke
Francis U. Macy, Center For Safe Energy
Frank Walter, Yachats, OR
Gabriela C. Flora, Iowa
Gar Smith, Editor Earth Island Journal
Garth Liebhaber
Gary Cohen, Executive Director, Environmental Health Fund, Boston, MA
Gladys Schmitz, MN
Heather Grace Leigh
Hillel W. Cohen, Assistant Professor Of Epidemiology And Social Medicine
Homas Ulick, Mineral Point WI
Ilias Chrissochoidis, Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center
Ira Helfand, MD, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Isabel Castillo, Sol Manik, Inc., Washington and Latin America, MD
Jackeline Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation
Jackeline Hansen, Washington D.C.
James Facette
James Plagmann, Arvada, CO
James Wilson
Jane Milliken, Greenwich Forum On War And Peace
Jason Francis, Clarksburg, MA
Jean Grossholtz, South Hadley, MA
Jenefer Ellingston, Washington DC
Jeanneth Vazquez, Augustana College
Jeannie B. Marvin
Jenelle Disanto
Jennifer E. Pope, Chicago, IL
Jennifer Maassen
Jennifer Wagner, MN
Jeremy Evans Phd, Visiting Fellow
Jeremy Weber
Jesse Hendrich, Seminary student
Jessica Hopkins,
Jody Ohmacht
John Burroughs, Lawyers' Committee On Nuclear Policy
John C. Bollinger, PE
John C. Hotchkiss, Global Renaissance
John Laforge, Nukewatch
John Passacantando, Executive Director Greenpeace USA
John Steinbach, Grey Panthers
John Wickham, Environmental Consultant
Jonathan Mark, Flyby News
Josefina M. Castillo, AFSC-TAO, Austin, Tx
Joseph Holder
Judy Treichel , Nvl
Juliet S. Erazo, MI
Jyoti Wind, Citizens Concerned About Nuclear Waste Impacts
Kaia Svien, Mn
Karen Paluzzi, CA
Karen Vitulano, CA
Kat Brady, Hawaii
Kathryn Halenbeck, Ventura, CA
Kay B. Forest, Associate Professor of Sociology
Kathleen Mcafee
Kathryn Troxler, M.A.
Kay Dellinger, Coalition Against Global Exploitation (CAGE)
Ken Seaman The Colorado Coalition For The Prevention Of Nuclear War
Kev Hall
Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange, CA
Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action
Kevin Murray
Kirsten Stade, MW
Kristin Fuhrmann, Lyons, Colorado
L. Christina Cobb, Free Agency
Laird W. Hastay, Western Washington County Coalition for Human Dignity, Pacific Green Party of Oregon Forest Grove, OR
Larry J. Goodwin, Washington, DC
Larry S. Jones, Honolulu
Laura Weaver, Writer
Laurence H. Ebersole, WA
Laverne Coleman,
Leah Williams, Ph. D
Leon Lefson
Leroy Moore, Rocky Mountain Peace And Justice Center
Leuren Moret, CA
Libby J. Goldstein,
Lin Romano, Baltimore Emergency Response Network (BERN)
Linda Greco From Brooklyn, NY
Lisa Thomas, Grandparents for Justice, Texarkana, Texas
Livermore Conversion Project, CA
Lloyd J. Dumas, Professor Of Political Economy
Madeline Duckles, Berekely/East Bay Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom; Berkeley Women For Peace
Maggie Schneider, writer
Mag Seaman The Colorado Coalition For The Prevention Of Nuclear War
Marcello Aurelio Lanfranchi
Maria Hondros, Qwest
Marianne Simmons
Marilyn Krysl, CO
Mary Ann Beattie, M.D., Physicians for Social Responsibility, Wichita, KS
Mary B. Abu-Saba
Mark E. Sloan
Mary Krane Derr, Writer, Chicago
Mary Sprunger-Froese,
Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley Cares,
Max Obuszewski, American Friends Service Committee
Michael Andregg, MN
Michael Gregory, Director Arizona Toxics Information
Michael V. Ruby, Exponent,
Monica William-Olsson
Noel Kaufmann Takoma Park, MD
Norbert Johnson
Nancy Arrowsmith, writer and journalist
Nancy Elkins
Nancy Macleod, Oakland, CA
Neil Sorensen, Minneapolis, MN
Octavia Taylor, Community-Based Hazard Management
Pamela Miller, Director Alaska Community Action On Toxics
Patrice Sutton
Patrice Sutton
Patricia A. Keefe
Patricia O'Leary College Park, MD
Paula Palmer, Executive Director Global Response
Paula Palmer, Global Response
Pax Christi, Carbondale
Penny Swanson
Peter La Follette, CA
Peter Riggs, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Peter Wilk, M.D. Maine
Phoebe Wilson
Priscilla Schiltz, Citizens for Legitimate Government
Priscilla Voss, Dekalb Interfaith Network For Peace And Justice
R Stockwell, IWW (Industrial Workers Of The World)
Randy Ziglar
Rev. Dr. Nathan S. Smith, Ohio
Rev. Stan Dueck Denver, Pennsylvania
Richard E. Sclove, Ph.D
Richard Larson
Risa Aratyr
Robert M. Gould, CA
Rev. Robert Moore, Executive Director, Coalition for Peace Action, Princeton, NJ
Rod Leonard, Communiy Nutrition Institute
Ronald N Weiss
Rosemary F. Moser, Middletown Springs, VT
Ruth L. Raffensperger
Sabel Castillo,Sol Manik, Inc.
Sally A. Breen, Peace Action Maine
Sally Brown, Ph.D., Ecosystem Sciences, Seattle, WA
Sally Light
Sara Cohen,
Sara Y. Raffensperger
Sarah Stover
Sheila Schueller, MI
Shelby Berkowitz, Citizens for a Peaceful Response, Lansing, MI
Sherry Larsen-Beville, CA
Signe Waller, Indiana
Sonja Geoghegan
Stacey A. Fritz, Fairbanks, AK
Sunny Brown, Boulder, Colorado
Susan C. Rice
Susana Powell, Ph.D.
Susan Ravitz, Lehigh-Pocano Committee of Concern
Susan Sollins, New York, N.Y.
Suzanne F. Hedrick
Sylvia Marie
Tara Thornton, Military Toxics Project (MTP)
Theodore Herman, PA
Tim K. Takaro, MD
Tim King, Independet Journalist, Long Prairie, MN
Timothy Marsh, Vice President Of EAGLE (Environmental Action Group For A Livable Earth)
Tom Ferguson, Atlanta, GA
Tom Taylor
Tom Wodetzki, Alliance For Democracy (Mendocno Coast Chapter Co-Chair),
Toni Rizzo, Alliance For Democracy, Mendocino Coast Chapter Co-Chair, Fort
Virginia Nickerson
Walter I. Zeichner
William Allen, Oakland CA
William B. Raffensperger
Yggdrasil Institute, Georgetown, KY
Zoe Bradbury, MN
Other countries
Argentina
María Blasco Fune
Australia
Coffs Coast Conservation Council
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
Friends Of The Earth Australia
Urunga Health Discussion Group
Anne O'Rourke
Daniel Moss, Nuclear Free Australia, Melbourne
Donella Peters, South Australia
Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee
Konrad Knerr, Australian Ethical Investment Ltd., Australian Ethical Superannuation Fund
Martina Wilson
Michael Dickson
Simone Nichol
Tony Webb
Austria
Center For Encounter And Active Non-Violence, Bad Ischl
Matthias Reichl
Bangladesh
IEDS-Friends Of The Earth Bangladesh.
Belgium
Joep Oomen, European NGO Council on Drugs and Development, Belgium
Michel Somville Phd, Belgium Bioethics Committee
Brazil
Instituto para la Produccion e Investigacion de la Agriculture Tropical
Flavio Luiz Schieck Valente, Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional
Atila Roque, IBASE
Hélio Neves, Coordinator To Occupational Health Policy, São Paulo City
Canada
Atlantic Council For International Cooperation
Ken Fernandez,B.CL., LL.B. President, Quebec Wing, Canadian Action Party
Caroline Xia, Toronto, Ontario
Cath Bray
Cathleen Kneen
Daniel Leblanc, Moncton, New Brunswick
Fred Schneider, St. Dominic's Resettlement Program
Gaik Cheng Khoo, Victoria Iraq Solidarity Organization
George Peabody, New Brunswick
Gilles Halley, Animator For CCODP
J. Denys Bourque, R. P. F
Jean Arnold, New Brunswick
Joanne Hayward, British Columbia
Joyce M. Brown, Toronto
Rita Wong, writer
Chile
Sara Larrain, Sustainable Chile Programme
Colombia
Centro De Debate y Accion Ambiental, Bogota
Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos, Bogota
Mama Coca, Andean Amazon Region
Dario Gonzalez Posso, Corporacion Unidades Democraticas Para El Desarrollo, Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz Indepaz
Ricardo Vargas M, Transnational Institute, Accion Andina, Bogota
Croatia
Danijela Babic
Kresimir Dakulovic
Zoran Ostric
Cyprus
Friends Of The Earth Cyprus
Denmark
Allan Elm, Danish Association For Sustainable Communities (LØS)
Dominican Republic
Gerald Baile Crouse
Rebecca Baile Crouse
Ecuador
Accion Ecologica
Egypt
Rights Committee, Cairo
Joseph Schechla, Habitat International Coalition, Housing & Land
Ossama M. El-Tayeb, Cairo
Fiji Islands
Hannah Harborow, Pacific Concerns Resource Centre
Finland
Heidi Turtiainen, Helsinki
France
Centre De Documentation Et De Recherche Sur La Paix Et Les Conflits
Le Mouvement De La Paix French Peace Movement
Anne-Marie Hochet, Sociologue
Víctor de la Barrera, International Peace Bureau
Germany
Ute Sprenger, Afrika AG
India
Ammu Abraham, Women's Centre, Bombay
Ashish Fernandes, Mumbai
Hay Sorée, Yardi & Sorée (India) Pvt. Ltd
P.V. Satheesh, Andhra Pradeh
Professor Dinesh Mohan, Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi
Rustam Vania, New Delhi
Italy
Amici della Terra, Friends of the Earth, Rome
Alberta Dettori, Rome
Fabrizia Pratesi, Rome
Laura Radiconcini, Rome
Japan
Hiroshi TAKA, Tokyo
Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo), Tokyo
Kenya
Andrew Mushita, Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT)
Mine Pabari, Nairobi
Latvia
Dace Lodzina
Malta
Julian Manduca
Mexico
Centro de Estudios Fronterizos y de Promoción de los Derechos Humanos A.C.
Ana Luisa Anaya, Instituto De Ecología. , Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México
Hilda Salazar Ramírez
Silvia E. Purata, Instituto De Ecología, México
The Netherlands
Transnational Institute
Andrea Connell, The Hague
Arie Van Den Brand
Arthur Wiggers, The Hague
Fiona Connell-Wiggers, The Hague
Hinde Chergui
Lea Connell-Wiggers, The Hague,
Marijke Vos, Member Of Parliament In The Netherlands, Party Green Left
Nancy De Randamie, Journalist/ Political Scientist ,Amsterdam
Paula Warren
Wim Bartels, Interchurch Peace Council (IKV)
New Zealand
GE Awareness Nelson
GE Free New Zealand
Anne Fitzsimon
D Chris Webster
Jordan Freeman
Paula Warren
Norway
Norwegian Peace Alliance (18 member organisations), Oslo
Fredrik S. Heffermehl, President of Norges Fredsråd
Morten Eriksen
Russia
Lydia Popova, Center for Nuclear Ecology and Energy Policy
Natalie Mironova, Movement For Nuclear Safety
South Africa
Alida Boshoff, Food Gardens Foundation
Andrew Taynton, Kwazulu-Natal
Spain
Azucena González Coloma, CCMA, Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
Liliane Spendeler, Soto del Real (Madrid)
Stephen Carlin
Sweden
Ass. Prof. Bertil Egerö, Programme On Population And Development (PROP)
Bertil Egerö
Dick Urban Vestbro , Professor Of Built Environment Analysis, The Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm
ElsaMaria Bergström
Göran Djurfeld, Professor
Göran Eklöf, Stockholm
Kevin Begley
Monica William-Olsson, Stockholm
Nandi Vileika
Rickard Åström, Groupa
Switzerland
Irene Täuber
Robert LAMB, Berne
United Kingdom
Arms Reduction Coalition, Action For UN Renewal, London
Campaign For The Accountability Of American Bases (CAAB)
Lewes Green Party (East Sussex)
Parish Of St. Hugh Of Lincoln, Surrey
Scientists for Global Responsibility
Sussex Peace Alliance
The Gaia Foundation, London
West Midlands Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament
Alison Williams
Anna Rehin, Co-Ordinator, Lewes CND
Dr Elin Kelsey, London
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Institute of Science in Society, London
Dr. Patrick Ainley, Reader In Learning Policy, University Of Greenwich, London
Donald Hirsch, Guildford
Linda Walker, Manchester, UK
Sarah Meyer, East Sussex
Theodore Herman, Cornwall
Uruguay
REDES-Friends of the Earth Uruguay
Zimbabwe
International South Group Network (ISGN), Harare