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December Nautilus Highights - posted january 6, 2002
Dear staff: I am pleased to send you the latest highlights of Nautilus Institute. September 11 and its aftermath have tested us all in many ways. Nautilus continues to respond even as we reorient and deepen our commitment to our pre-911 mission. In particular, I would like to draw your attention to the weekly South Asia Nuclear Dialogue Network report, now a standard reference for specialists on these issues. We look forward to working with you for a peaceful and secure world in 2002. Regards, Peter Hayes HIGHLIGHTS: 1. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SUPPORTS NORTHEAST GRID PROJECT
The U.S. Department of Energy has granted $150,000 for research and analysis
of grid interconnection in Northeast Asia. The Grid Project aims to increase
energy security in the region, which in turn may help stabilize the
economic, environmental, and security situation. It will provide training
and conduct pre-feasibilites studies of grid connection between the DPRK,
the ROK, the Russian Far East, and China. 2. STRATEGIC CONSULTATION OUTLINES INVESTMENT RULES ENTRY POINTS The International Sustainable and Ethical Investment Project convened a strategic consultation December 2-5 at the Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. NGO, policy, foundation, and business leaders from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America attended the conference, which utilized scenarios methodology to forecast 10-year scenarios for investment governance. 3. NAUTILUS INSTITUTE DISCLOSES NUCLEAR ROLE OF B1-BOMBER
In an article in Arms Control Today, senior researcher Hans M. Kristensen
disclosed a secret air force plan to return the "conventional-only" B-1
bomber to nuclear operations within months. President George W. Bush
recently pledged to reduce US nuclear weapons to 1,700-2,200 warheads over
the next ten years, but Kristensen writes that many of the dismantled
warheads will be moved to a secret reserve. 4. 911 SPECIAL FORUM ESSAY PUBLISHED IN SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE he SF Chronicle published the Special Forum Essay entitled "A Neutral Afghanistan" by Nautilus Senior Research Associate at the Nautilus Institute Faruq Achikzad on December 7. A letter by Nautilus Special Forum contributor Ahmad Faruqui in response and support of Faruq's essay was also published. 5. SOUTH ASIA NUCLEAR DIALOGUE WEEKLY REPORT EXPANDS New South Asia Program Officer Zulfiqar Ahmad has brought his knowledge of the region to the Institute's weekly SANDnet Report. The report now covers not only significant political development in the region but also presents subtle changes that have the potential to become important issues. Additionally, the variety of sources used in production has increased significantly. 6.DON GREGG ON NAUTILUS' DAILY REPORT
"The NAPSNet Daily Report has become the authoritative reference source for
the latest news and views concerning critical issues of security, especially
nuclear weapons proliferation threats, in the [Northeast Asia] region." --
Donald Gregg, U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1989-93, current Chairman
of the Korea Society in New York.
November Nautilus Highights - posted december 2, 2001
Dear staff: Here are the latest highlights of Nautilus Institute activities. Your comments, questions, and ideas are always welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. Regards, Peter Hayes HIGHLIGHTS: 1. 'SUSTAINABLE AND ETHICAL INVESTMENT RULES PROJECT' RECEIVES FORD GRANT The Ford Foundation has granted $300,000 to the 'Sustainable and Ethical Investment' Project of the Globalization and Governance Program. The collaborative partners of the project are working to develop and promote a framework of international investment rules that balances private investor rights with environmental and social responsibilities. Visit the project website at: 2. BUFFET CHALLENGES INVESTORS AT ASIAN ETHICAL INVESTMENT CONFERENCE "Social investors in Asia have a unique opportunity to engage corporations in the high tech sector to demand increased information disclosure to stakeholders," concluded Sandy Buffett, Nautilus Senior Program Officer, at the innaugural conference of ASRIA, the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia, November 2, in Hong Kong. Sandy's presentation can be viewed here 3. SPECIAL FORUM CONTINUES TO OFFER MULTITUDE OF PERSPECTIVES Former Resident Coordinator for the United Nations and current Senior Research Associate at the Nautilus Institute, Faruq Achikzad, provides an Afghani perspective on the collapse of the Taliban and its unfolding implications with his latest essay for the Special Forum on the September 11 attacks. The Special Forum has now published 42 essays to date. 4. HAYES CALLS FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION ON DPRK GRID In Peter Hayes' address at the 2001 Electricity Summit in Toyama, Japan, he stressed that it is critical to overcome the DPRK power grid problem to maintain the Korean Peninsula's stability at this crucial juncture in global affairs. 5. PEGASUS TEAM COMPLETES HAULOUT AND RESUMES YOUTH VOYAGES
A team effort involving Pegasus volunteers, Marine Brightworks, and the
Berkeley Marine Center completed the annual painting of the Pegasus hull in
time for winter and our Berkeley Boosters after school sail on November
28th. A special thanks goes to Cree Partridge of the Berkeley Marine
Center for his generous contribution of the bottom paint job. October Nautilus Highights - posted november 5, 2001
Dear Friend and Colleague: Here are the latest highlights of Nautilus Institute activities. Your comments, questions, and ideas are always welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. Regards, Peter Hayes HIGHLIGHTS: 1. HKH FOUNDATION SUPPORTS NAUTILUS RESPONSE TO SEPTEMBER 11th
The HKH Foundation awarded $40,000 to the Nautilus Institute to respond to the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The grant will support the Institute's research on the potential escalation of the current conflict that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction. 2. GLOBALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE PROGRAM LAUNCHES INVESTMENT RULES LISTSERVE The Ethical Governance of Investment Network (INVnet) contains timely news and analyses on the intersections of international investment and the environment, human rights, labor, social and economic justice, and transparency. The latest edition focuses on the upcoming WTO ministerial round and the prospects for an agreement on investment. 3. SEPTEMBER 11TH SPECIAL FORUM EVOKES STRONG FEEDBACK
The Nautilus Institute's Special Forum on the impact and consequences of the September 11th attack has published 32 essays to date, which reflect a multitude of perspectives, and has generated lively discussion. As US bombs began to fall in Afghanistan, Faruq Achikzad's essay "Afghanistan: After the Taliban" was run as the lead oped in the San Francisco Chronicle on October 11. 4. NAUTILUS RECEIVES GLOBAL KOREA AWARD The Nautilus Institute received the 2001 Global Korea Award from the Coalition for Korean Studies at Michigan State University in recognition of its work on Korea, including the US-DPRK Village Wind Power Pilot Project. The award is for significant contribution to cross cultural understanding, global education, and well-being of Korean people around the world. 5. PEACE AND SECURITY ARE ENVIRONMENTAL DONOR PRIORITIES
Building International civil society is the best response to the September 11 attacks and the war underway in Afghanistan, suggested Peter Hayes at the Environmental Grantmaker's Fall Retreat on October 15 in Brainerd, Minnesota. Hayes called on donors to invest in partnerships between domestic and international environmental groups, and between environmental and peace-security groups. September Nautilus Highights - posted october, 2001
Dear Friend and Colleague, This Nautilus Institute monthly update bears the impossibly heavy burden of responding to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington DC. September 11 was a global event in global cities. Citizens from over 90 nations died. For an institute that aims to solve global problems, September 11 demanded that we respond globally, even as we took care of our own at home. We therefore launched a Special Forum that has so far published 21 expert analyses. This week, we will publish perspectives from cosmopolitan Afghani experts on how to respond effectively to the challenge emanating from this troubled region to the whole world. Today, we also launch a new Globalization and Governance web site that addresses directly the financial and investment institutions that likely played an important role in the attacks and must now change radically in the aftermath. We invite you and others to alert us to new thinking and initiatives from which we might learn how to better respond to this calamity. We will keep you apprised of on-going efforts here at Nautilus that include a scenarios workshop, a workshop on diasporas and global problem-solving, and an analysis of escalation dynamics and weapons of mass destruction.
Sincerely, HIGHLIGHTS: 1. SPECIAL POLICY FORUM The Nautilus Institute launched a Special Forum to discuss the reasons for and the potential impacts of the recent attacks on New York and Washington. To view this forum online, please visit here 2. PLOUGHSHARES AND PCI SUPPORT NAUTILUS PROJECTS The Ploughshares Fund awarded the Nautilus Institute a grant of $40,000 for research and publication about U.S. nuclear strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. The grant supports the Nuclear Strategy Project of the Nautilus Institute Peace and Security Program. The Pacific Century Institute (PCI) awarded Nautilus a $6,000 grant to support engagement of the DPRK on financing of energy infrastructure. 3. "SUSTAINABLE AND ETHICAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT" WEBSITE LAUNCHED The Globalization and Governance Program launched a new website on emerging international investment negotiations and agreements. Topics include transparency, environment, human rights, global security, and economic inclusion. The website is part of the International Investment Rules Project, funded by the Wallace Global Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation. 4. NAUTILUS CO-AUTHORS SIPRI YEARBOOK Combined, the U.S., Russia, France, China, Israel, Pakistan, and the U.K. maintain over 19,000 nuclear warheads in their arsenals, according to the Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute's (SIPRI) latest yearbook. Nautilus Senior Security Program Officer Hans M. Kristensen co-authors the yearbook's overview of world nuclear forces. 5. NORTH KOREA'S POWER SITUATION CRITICAL, VON HIPPEL WARNS
North Korea's use of all forms of commercial energy may have fallen to
below 20 percent of what it was in 1990, said Nautilus Institute Senior
Associate David Von Hippel in an interview published in Japan's Asahi
Shimbun on August 28.
August Nautilus Highights - posted sept 4, 2001
Dear staff: Due to an administrative error, we incorrectly sent you the July Nautilus monthly update Saturday. We apologize for the error. Below are the correct, current highlights of recent Nautilus Institute activities. Your comments, questions, and ideas are always welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. Regards, Peter Hayes HIGHLIGHTS: 1. DOE, ROSE FOUNDATION SUPPORT NAUTILUS PROJECTS
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved the third year of its
three-year, $750,000 grant to support the Institute's work on
regional energy security in East Asia. The Rose Community Foundation has granted $14,000 to the Institute to support Phase One of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Oil Pollution Project. 2. EXPERT: CHINA'S ELECTRIC GRID FACES TRANSPORT CHALLENGES Within the next few years, China will face serious technical challenges in transmitting electric power from the West to meet increasing demand in the East, Prof. Felix Wu said at a Nautilus Institute seminar Aug. 8. Prof. Wu is collaborating with Nautilus on its Northeast Asia Grid Interconnection Project. 3. HAYES: NORTH KOREA PLAYING ITS "RUSSIA CARD" WITH U.S.
North Korea's Kim Jong Il is playing his country's "Russia card" to
show that the DPRK has geopolitical options if the United States
refuses to engage with it in coming months, Nautilus Executive
Director Peter Hayes said on National Public Radio Aug. 4. 4. ZARSKY OUTLINES US-CHINA FUTURES AT BUSINESS FORUM
Globalization and Governance Program Director Lyuba Zarsky discussed
alternative futures for US-China relations at a roundtable in
Australia Aug. 2. Zarsky was the featured speaker at the forum,
organized by Global Business Network-Australia. Zarsky sketched the
scenarios generated in the Nautilus Institute's project on the future
of US-China relations, and led a discussion about economic and
security implications. 5. MISSILE DEFENSE CONSEQUENCES FOR ASIA DISCUSSED AT SEMINARS
US Theater Missile Defense plans for East Asia could have profound
and unintended security consequences, according to experts in two
seminars sponsored by Nautilus. Speakers from China, Russia and the
US discussed potential consequences and answered questions from local
political and business leaders at seminars co-convened with the World
Affairs Council in San Francisco Aug. 13 and with Town Hall Los
Angeles in Los Angeles Aug. 14.
July Nautilus Highights - posted August 5, 2001
Dear staff: Below are highlights of recent Nautilus Institute activities. As always, your comments, questions, and ideas are welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. Regards, Peter Hayes HIGHLIGHTS: 1. NAUTILUS UNCOVERS NUCLEAR SECRETS Nuclear secrets uncovered by Nautilus Senior Program Officer Hans Kristensen have been cited in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Washington Post. Included are an analysis the Bulletin said offers a "rare glimpse" into U.S. nuclear war planning, and a Pentagon paper on post-Cold War deterrence that conflicts with the Bush approach. A new CD from Nautilus contains many of the documents. 2. BUFFETT: ADOPT BINDING CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY RULES International investment rules must address investor responsibility for social and environmental impacts, Globalization and Governance Senior Program Officer Sandy Buffett said July 6 at a skills-share conference on private finance activism in Amsterdam. Buffett presented an overview of current investment liberalization regimes and the potential for inserting binding corporate social responsibility (CSR) into international agreements. 3. NFWF AND NOAA AWARD $16,500 TO PEGASUS PROJECT In support of the Nautilus Institute's environmental education program, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has awarded $16,500 to the Pegasus Project. The grant comes from funds provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and will be used in partnership with UC Berkeley's Marine Activities, Resources and Education (MARE) Program and the City of Berkeley's Shorebird Nature Center. 4. SHEN PAPER SAYS BUSH WEAKENS U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS The Bush Administration's strategic competitiveness with China imperils stability in East Asia, warns Shen Dingli in a paper released by Nautilus July 6. However, the Administration's reasonable handling of the EP-3 incident offers hope for constructive Sino-US relations, says Dr. Shen, Director of the Center for American Studies at Shanghai's Fudan University. The paper was presented in March at an East Asia Regional Security Futures workshop. 5. TWO PAPERS ON ENERGY FUTURES IN CHINA PUBLISHED
Nautilus has published two papers on energy in China, from the
Northeast Asia Energy Futures Workshop held by Nautilus and Tsinghua
University in Beijing. Prof. Ni Weidou describes general Chinese
energy futures assumptions and the "poly generation" system, an
engineering solution to the energy security problem. Prof. Zhang
Aling's paper illustrates past and current trends in heavy coal
usage, and discusses ways to diversify fuel sources.
June Nautilus Highights - posted July 2, 2001
Dear staff: Here are the latest highlights of Nautilus Institute activities. Your comments, questions, and ideas are always welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. Regards, Peter Hayes Highlights: 1. GREENVILLE AWARDS $20,000 FOR US-DPRK RENEWABLE ENERGY The Greenville Foundation has awarded $20,000 to the Nautilus Institute for its renewable energy work in North Korea. The funds will support the installation of water-pumping windmills and ultraviolet water purification systems at Unhari village in the DPRK. 2. NORTHEAST ASIA GRID EXPERTS' RECOMMENDATIONS PUBLISHED A Summary Report from the first Northeast Asia Power Grid Interconnection Workshop held in Beijing May 14-16, calling for a regional expert working group to design power connections between the Russian Far East, the Koreas, and China, is now available on the Institute's Web site. Also available are presentations by power system experts, electrical engineers, economists, and energy policy researchers. 3. NAUTILUS PAPER IN ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK Asia's degraded and polluted environment will trigger a human health and livelihood crisis unless governments adopt new approaches to governance, according to the report. It draws from and includes Lyuba Zarsky's paper, "From Bystanders to Collaborators: New Roles for Civil Society in Urban-Industrial Environmental Governance in Asia." Zarsky directs the Institute's Globalization and Governance Program. The paper may be read (90K, requires Acrobat Reader) at: here. 4. FRANCE MODERNIZING ITS NUCLEAR FORCES, REPORT SAYS
France is modernizing its nuclear weapons delivery systems despite a
small reduction in its nuclear arsenal, according to a report
co-authored by Nautilus Senior Program Officer Hans M. Kristensen and
published in the July-August issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists. 5. TWO REPORTS ON OIL COMPANY CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY RELEASED
Two reports mapping the human rights and environmental impacts of
California-based oil companies operating in Nigeria and the Caspian
Sea region have been published by the Corporate Accountability
Project. A Public Policy Report will follow later this year.
May Nautilus Highights - posted June 3, 2001
Dear staff: Here are the latest highlights of Nautilus Institute activities. Your comments, questions, and ideas are always welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. Regards, Peter Hayes Highlights: 1. ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION SUPPORTS INVESTMENT RULES PROJECT The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded $210,000 to the Globalization and Governance Program to develop a framework to govern global capital flows based on investor social and environmental responsibility. The Project is a collaboration between the Nautilus Institute, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, the Singapore Institute for International Affairs, and ECOS Fundacion Uruguay. 2. NAUTILUS CONVENES EXPERTS ON INTEGRATING NORTHEAST ASIA GRID Grid interconnection in Northeast Asia could have enormous positive effects on the regional energy supply, security, and environment, said experts from China, South Korea, North Korea, Russia, Japan, the United States, and Europe participating in a workshop in Beijing on May 11-13. 3. RUSSIAN SPECIALIST: MISSILE DEFENSE DESTABILIZING U.S. plans for ballistic missile defenses can cause instability in East Asia, according to a Russian expert's analysis released May 18 by the Nautilus Institute. Alexander Pikayev, Co-Chair of the Non-Proliferation Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, examined implications for individual countries as well as the region. 4. BUSH COULD BREAK THROUGH ON NORTH KOREA, HAYES SAYS The Bush Administration may be able to break through in relations with the DPRK in ways the preceding Clinton Administration could not, Nautilus Executive Director Peter Hayes said on National Public Radio May 8. 5. ZARSKY ADDRESSES CORPORATE ETHICS AT UNOCAL FORUM
Corporations need to include ethics in their investment strategies
and set substantive and procedural benchmarks for their human rights
and environmental performance. That was the message from Lyuba
Zarsky, Director of the Nautilus Institute's Globalization and
Governance Program, in the May 5 keynote address at "The New World of
Corporate Accountability: The Case of UNOCAL in Burma."
April Nautilus Highights - posted May 6, 2001
Dear Staff: Below please find recent news from The Nautilus Institute. As always, your comments, questions, and ideas are welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. Regards, Peter Hayes Highlights: 1. NAUTILUS AWARDED NEW VOICES FELLOWSHIP
The Nautilus Institute's Globalization and Governance Program has
been awarded a two-year New Voices Fellowship grant by the Academy
for Educational Development. Nautilus and the Fellow, Christine Ahn,
were selected out of nearly 300 applicants to receive one of 15
fellowships. 2. ANALYST: NONPROLIFERATION PRESSURE ON RUSSIA COUNTERPRODUCTIVE It's true that illicit technology transfer from Russia has grown in the past decade, but U.S. pressure on this issue simply worsens relations and compounds the ongoing turmoil inside Russia, asserts a paper by Russian analyst Vladimir Orlov, released in April by the Nautilus Institute. Orlov's paper and others from the Second Collaborative Workshop on East Asia Regional Security Futures, funded primarily by the MacArthur and Ford Foundations, are at: here 3. ARTICLE LEADS TO NUCLEAR DEBATE IN BELGIUM
An article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists co-authored by
Nautilus Security Program Officer Hans Kristensen has prompted
Belgian parliamentarians to open debate on phasing out nuclear
weapons in their country. The "Nuclear Notebook" article, which
reported U.S. Air Force plans to keep nuclear arms stored in Belgium
and other NATO countries through 2018, is at: 4. HAYES ADDRESSES DPRK MEETING CONVENED BY PERRY Nautilus Executive Director Peter Hayes outlined an agenda for cooperative engagement of the DPRK on energy at an "Experts' Discussion on the North Korea Issue" convened by former Defense Secretary William Perry and Harvard Professor Ash Carter. The meeting, held at the Brookings Institution March 30, was attended by about 50 senior American policymakers. 5. JOAN DIAMOND JOINS NAUTILUS AS COO Joan Diamond has joined the Nautilus Institute as Chief Operating Officer. Joan has over 20 years' experience as an executive in the business and nonprofit sectors, with special expertise in building systems for organizations experiencing rapid growth. 6. NAUTILUS SETS "LIVING INCOME" MINIMUM FOR EMPLOYEES
The Nautilus Institute has made a commitment to providing its
employees a "living income." Employees receive a housing allowance if
their base pay is insufficient to meet the cost of living in the San
Francisco Bay Area. This year the minimum living income is set at
$33,360.
March Nautilus Highights - posted Apil 1, 2001
Dear reader: Please find below the latest news from The Nautilus Institute. As always, your comments, questions, and ideas are welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. Regards, Peter Hayes Highlights:
1. GOLDMAN GRANT FOR CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
2. U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS SCENARIOS RELEASED
3. IDEAS FOR E. ASIA SECURITY ADVANCED
4. DPRK ENERGY GROUP CONCLUDES U.S. VISIT
5. RESEARCHERS DEVELOP ASIA ENERGY SCENARIOS
Feb Nautilus Highights - posted March 5, 2001
Dear staff member: I'm pleased to share with you some recent news from The Nautilus Institute. As always, your comments, questions, and ideas are welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. -- Regards, Peter Hayes Highlights:
1. HIGH-TECH CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY IN TAIWAN: NEW STUDY
2. W. ALTON JONES, MERCK SUPPORT GLOBAL SECURITY WORK
3. NAUTILUS INSTITUTE ADOPTS NEW MISSION
4. JANE WALES JOINS NAUTILUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jan. Nautilus Highights - posted February 2, 2001
Dear staff member: I'm pleased to share with you some recent news from The Nautilus Institute. As always, your comments, questions, and ideas are welcome. Thank you for your interest and support. -- Regards, Peter Hayes Highlights:
1. LYUBA ZARSKY KEYNOTES FOREIGN INVESTMENT CONFERENCE
The Globalization and Governance Program also collaborated on a human rights training for educators and activists with Amnesty International in November 2000 in Los Angeles, California.
2. CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT COMPLETES 2 STUDIES
The executive summaries and full reports are on Web site at: here More news about the project is at: here
3. NAUTILUS EXPERTS' NORTH KOREA TALK CARRIED ON NPR
4. GLEITSMAN HONORS PETER HAYES
5. RECENT GRANTS
Jennifer Altman Fund, $20,000, in collaboration with Natural Heritage Institute, to establish the International Coalition for Children's Environmental Health. U.S. Department of Energy, $500,000, Energy Security in Asia Project, including study of regional grid integration in Northeast Asia -- continue and expand program begun last year. Rockefeller Foundation, $500,000, Information Technology and International Security, for a five-year fellowship.
Compton Foundation, $90,000, for North Korea renewable energy work.
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