United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is a voluntarily funded autonomous institute within the United Nations that generates ideas and promotes action on disarmament and security. This project was selected through a request for proposals competition, co-organized by MacArthur and Carnegie Corporation of New York, entitled Heading Off Nuclear Catastrophe. This award examines practical uses of cutting-edge verification tools that are designed to strengthen the security, and facilitate the elimination, of weapons-useable materials in military stockpiles. Progress on verification is necessary to ultimately achieve a treaty banning the production and stockpiling of weapons-useable material.

The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is a voluntarily funded autonomous institute within the United Nations that generates ideas and promotes action on disarmament and security. The award supports technical and scientific analysis to help future negotiators better understand the choices involved in designing an effective and viable treaty to end the production of fissile material through technical research and a series of meetings. It maintains the momentum established by the recently concluded Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) that considered the prospects for such a treaty.

To support a project on disarmament and peacekeeping.