Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, is also Senior Advisor of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and National Security. He is Vice President of the NGO Committee on Disarmament at the UN, and serves on numerous governing and advisory boards including the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, the Jane Goodall Institute, the Bipartisan Security Group, and the Middle Powers Initiative. Mr. Granoff has lectured worldwide emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He is an award-winning screenwriter, and has been featured in more than 30 publications. He has practiced law in Philadelphia as an individual practitioner, in several medium sized firms, and as in-house counsel in a public company. He chaired the special session on Terrorism and Threats to Humanity at the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome in 2004 where he represented the International Peace Bureau, a Nobel Peace Laureate organization.

Blog Entries by Jonathan Granoff

One Small Step for the Council, One Giant Leap for Humankind

Posted September 24, 2009 | 10:24 AM (EST)


By Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger

President Obama's historic Security Council summit on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation should be seen for what it is: an extremely important step towards a safer, saner, more secure planet.

The September 24th summit resulted in the adoption of a resolution that reaffirms...

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Nuclear Disarmament: Let's Support President Obama

2 Comments | Posted August 27, 2009 | 11:20 AM (EST)


Nuclear weapons are abhorrent in anyone's hands.

Imagine if the Biological Weapons Convention said that polio and small pox as weapons are banned universally but the plague as a weapon can be brandished and held at the ready by nine countries because these special countries are uniquely moral, restrained,...

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Memo to Obama: America's Gift

Posted January 19, 2009 | 03:45 PM (EST)


Dear President-elect Obama,

Our hearts join the chorus of hearts singing with joy that you have been elected President of the United States.

A two-class apartheid world, with nuclear weapon "haves" and "have nots", is incompatible with the cooperation needed to effectively protect the global commons, address crushing poverty,...

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Time for U.S. Values for the Heavens

Posted February 20, 2007 | 04:10 PM (EST)


Shopping alone in the red light district for a trusted partner is counterintuitive, when applied to international security issues, it becomes downright dangerous.


Last year, the United States properly condemned North Korea for testing nuclear weapons. However, when the nations of the world voted for a universal,...

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