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Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming

Wednesday, 21 March 2007

The balance of risks between nuclear power and security on the one hand and climate change on the other is at the heart of the civil nuclear power debate. A major new report from ORG, Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming, assesses this balance and finds that a new nuclear build would take us into uncharted and very dangerous waters, without making a significant contribution to reducing CO2 emissions.


Would Air Strikes Work?

Monday, 5 March 2007

Oxford Research Group have published a major new report by Dr. Frank Barnaby. With a foreword by Hans Blix, Would Air Strikes Work? Understanding Iran's Nuclear Programme and the Possible Consequences of a Military Strike concludes that far from stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, military attacks would probably accelerate Iran's nuclear programme.


New Publications from Oxford Research Group

Thursday, 1 March 2007

The parameters of the political endgame are well known in the Palestine-Israel conflict, the problem has always been how to get there. In A Semi-Permanent Conference Table: A Process for Sustainable Peace in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Gabrielle Rifkind examines the security architecture needed for a sustainable peace process.

A new briefing by Dr. Farhang Jahanpour for the ORG website, Voices of Aggression: Exploring Israeli-Iranian Rhetoric, explores the extreme rhetoric from Israel and Iran, and argues that it should not be allowed to jeopardise the unique history of relationship between these two countries.