CNS Seminar by Professor Michael Hamel-Green

Multilateral NWFZ Initiatives: Precedents from Past Negotiations, Opportunities and Constraints in New Negotiations. Speaker Professor Michael Hamel-Green

Michael Hamel-Green is a professor in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. His research has focused on regional disarmament, nuclear-weapon-free zones, and regional security issues, particularly in the Asia Pacific. He has been a visiting researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva; has conducted research for the Nautilus Institute on Northeast Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone proposals; and has contributed entries for the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Peace on regional denuclearized zones, Pacific nuclear testing, and multilateralism. He has recently published an overview of denuclearized zone initiatives for UNIDIR?s Disarmament Forum 2011 special issue on NWFZ zones, as well as articles on the Arctic NWFZ and Northeast Asian NWFZ proposals. He is currently researching a comparative negotiation history of the six established NWFZs