What we do

Reaching Critical Will is currently engaged in a variety of initiatives and campaigns for disarmament and demilitarization. Among other things, we are committed to working with governments, international organisations, and other civil society partners to: 

• Achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons and related programmes;
• End the use of explosive weapons in populated areas;
• Curb the global arms trade and end arms transfers that violate human rights and international law;
• Prevent and prohibit new and destructive technologies of violence such as autonomous weapon systems and AI-enabled weapons;
• Minimize military spending, end war profiteering, and challenge militarism;
• Promote solidarity, cooperation, and nonviolence as solutions to conflict, tension, and harm;
• Investigate the connections between gender norms and masculinities and weapons and war;
• Advance diversity in disarmament policy and practice; and
• Contextualize disarmament in relation to socioeconomic justice, human rights, and ecological wellbeing through cross-cutting analysis and advocacy.

We work with governments and other civil society groups to facilitate and support initiatives to achieve the above goals and to promote dialogue and transparency amongst states and civil society on these issues. We monitor, report on, and analyse international disarmament negotiations and discussions. We provide information and analysis about proceedings on all relevant disarmament issues. We post statements and documents in real-time during conferences and provide an online archive for future research. We also serve as UN-NGO liaison during certain disarmament meetings, helping other civil society groups to access the conferences and ensuring that all those pursuing initiatives to facilitate disarmament can engage with governments at the international level.

In addition to daily or weekly reporting and analysis from relevant meetings, we also produce briefing papers, studies, and other research and advocacy materials. We engage on coalition work on many issues, contributing with critical analysis, advocacy, and organising to civil society efforts across a range of disarmament and arms control issues. RCW is active in many networks, such as the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the International Network on Explosive Weapons, and Stop Killer Robots.

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