Executive Director of Project Ploughshares
Cesar Jaramillo is executive director at Project Ploughshares, a division of the Canadian Council of Churches. His areas of expertise include nuclear disarmament, outer space security and conventional weapons control. As an international civil society representative, Cesar has addressed, among others, the UN General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), the UN Conference on Disarmament, the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), and states parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He has also given guest lectures and presentations at academic institutions such as the National Law University in New Delhi, the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, and the University of Toronto. An occasional columnist on matters of disarmament and international security, Cesar graduated from the University of Waterloo with an MA in global governance and has bachelor’s degrees in honours political science and in journalism. Prior to joining Project Ploughshares, Cesar held a fellowship at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
A group of arms control and human rights experts welcomes Canada’s accession to the ATT but reminds the government that such an act should require the cancellation of arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
In Saudi
spat, Canada stumbled onto a strong human rights position. But if Trudeau wants
to remain ‘firm’ on values, the $15-billion arms deal is untenable, Cesar
Jaramillo argues.
The European Union has recently
weakened protections for migrants under the guise of cooperation, writes Cesar
Jaramillo, warning of a downward trend.
Cesar Jaramillo lays out the factors that might
make or break a more sustainable peace in the Korean peninsula, from security
assurances to human rights.
A peace treaty for the
Korean peninsula may be the only realistic framework to achieve the
denuclearization of North Korea, writes Cesar Jaramillo.
The
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was recently awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize — a signal that much of the world demands renewed efforts
toward nuclear abolition. Is Canada listening?
As Global Affairs Canada
looks into alleged Saudi abuses with Canadian arms exports, Cesar Jaramillo
asks whether findings will lead to action, and points to other key factors to
consider.
Should we still strive for a world without nuclear weapons, despite
global security concerns? Absolutely, writes Cesar Jaramillo, as he debunks the
justifications for not taking current negotiations seriously.
If a half-century armed conflict can end at a negotiating table — and not on the battlefield — perhaps a solution can yet be found to other seemingly intractable conflicts around the world, writes Cesar Jaramillo.
The growing number of red flags around the $15-billion arms deal should
compel the Canadian government to come clean on the human rights implications of the military
exports contract.
On the largest Canadian arms deal ever, with a human rights violator no less, the facts speak for themselves.
The deal is the best chance for a peaceful resolution of the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, despite a double standard on which states can possess nuclear weapons
130 states have signed the ATT, which entered into force in December. Yet Canada still refuses to support the historical multilateral agreement.
