Contact: rosie.houldsworth@talkworks.info Project co-founders and coordinators: Anne Piper and Rosie Houldsworth
 With thanks for their voluntary help in Series One to: 
 Sebastian Elmaloglou for camera and online film editing David Abramsky & Harriet Macdonald for online film editing assistance Robin Bloomfield www.rjbloomfield.com and Dan Goren for website support Christopher Jarman for the Logo design www.quilljar.btinternet.co.uk Tom Midgley for IT support http://www.computerheroes.co.uk/ Peter Houldsworth for ongoing advice and support And to: Andy Russell of Different Films for project development consultancy and for the production of all films in Stage Two of the project (from September 2009)  TalkWorks IS AN INDEPENDENT NOT-FOR-PROFIT INITIATIVE WORKING ON A MINISCULE BUDGET! WE URGENTLY SEEK FURTHER SPONSORSHIP IN ORDER TO MAKE FILMS OF THE LEADING INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT IN THE RUN-UP TO THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) REVIEW CONFERENCE IN MAY 2010, AND BEYOND If you like this channel please provide a link from your website If you wish to support it or suggest subjects for further films, please contact: rosie.houldsworth@talkworks.info www.TalkWorks.info Oxford UK February 2010mailto:rosie.houldsworth@talkworks.infohttp://www.pool.org.au/users/harriet_macdonaldhttp://www.rjbloomfield.comhttp://webdesign.dangoren.comhttp://www.quilljar.btinternet.co.ukhttp://www.computerheroes.co.ukhttp://www.different-films.commailto:rosie.houldsworth@talkworks.infohttp://www.talkworks.infoshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8
 Learn more about the issues: For informative reports and factsheets on the question of civil nuclear power, global warming and security, visit: http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/work/global_security/energy.php For further information on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament issues, visit Oxford Research Group’s Nuclear Issues Programme webpages at: http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/work/global_security/deterrent.php http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/work/previous/index.php See also: The RealNews Network A video of Jonathan Schell talking about ‘Obama’s world without nuclear weapons’ Links to other websites: (In Britain) Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation The British-American Security Information Council (BASIC) “Getting to Zero” The David Davies Memorial Institute for International Studies (DDMI) “Trust Building in Nuclear Worlds” The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy Come Clean – The WMP Awareness Programme Pugwash UK Medact ICAN UK: Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Bradford University Disarmament Research Centre (In Europe) The Transational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF) (In the USA) The Nuclear Threat Initiative The Nuclear Security Project The Global Security Institute The EastWest Institute International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (In Australia) International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/work/global_security/energy.phphttp://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/work/global_security/deterrent.phphttp://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/work/previous/index.phphttp://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=376http://toplevelgroup.org/http://www.basicint.org/nuclear/index.htmhttp://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/research_trust_building.htmlhttp://www.acronym.org.uk/http://www.comeclean.org.uk/http://www.pugwash.org/uk/http://www.medact.org/wmd_nuclear.phphttp://www.icanw.org.uk/http://www.ippr.org.uk/http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/bdrc/nuclear/trident/trident.htmlhttp://www.transnational.org/http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b_index.htmlhttp://www.nuclearsecurityproject.org/http://www.gsinstitute.org/http://www.ewi.info/who-we-arehttp://www.ippnw.org/http://www.icnnd.org/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17shapeimage_2_link_18shapeimage_2_link_19shapeimage_2_link_20
Background TalkWorks is a small independent film project which grew out of the Niwano Peace Prize-winning work of the Oxford Research Group (ORG). At the height of the Cold War and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, ORG was researching and publishing on nuclear weapons decision-making, and facilitating face-to-face dialogue between senior decision-makers and their critics in all the nuclear nations. ORG’s approach to finding ways to turn back the nuclear arms race and make progress towards nuclear disarmament was to invite nuclear adversaries to meet each other face-to-face in informal environments for dialogue. In the presence of independent experts and skilled mediators, they could listen to the other’s point of view. ORG’s current work is focussing on the root causes of global threats, and promoting methods of resolving international conflict by non-violent means, with a special focus on Israel-Palestine. TalkWorks is dedicated to building momentum behind President Obama’s historic initiative to rid the world of nuclear weapons. TalkWorks is working with www.different-films.com to film a cross-section of the world’s leading experts on why it is so important, and how it is to be achieved.  ORG Symposium on Nuclear Futures: Realities and Choices In December 2007 Oxford Research Group held a high-level international symposium on ‘Nuclear Futures: Realities and Choices’ at the Royal Society in London to mark the end of its nuclear programme and honour the lifetime’s work of its eminent consultant on nuclear issues, Dr. Frank Barnaby. Twenty-five of the most knowledgeable and experienced nuclear and global security experts gathered around a table to assess the current critical situation with regard to nuclear weapons proliferation and the increased risks of nuclear terrorism, and to discuss what could be done about it: The symposium at the Royal Society was hosted jointly with the Trust Building in Nuclear Worlds Programme of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies (DDMI) of the the University of Aberystwyth  TalkWorks’ Forum for Dialogue on Nuclear Futures TalkWorks was founded in 2008 by Rosie Houldsworth and Anne Piper of the Oxford Research Group (ORG) to support the continuation of dialogue among experts in the field of nuclear weapons and international security; and to promote the wider dissemination of their insights on these issues into the public domain. In June 2008 TalkWorks convened a 24-hour ‘Forum for Dialogue on Nuclear Futures’ at Charney Manor in Oxfordshire for thirty leaders of UK-based non-government organisations (NGOs), academics and other nuclear specialists. This broad coalition of experts came together with those who fund their work to assess the implications of the fact that nuclear strategists and political leaders worldwide were beginning to take nuclear disarmament seriously, and to discuss how they may best support the US-led initiative during the critical period leading up to the May 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, and beyond. Read the aide-mémoire from discussion that took place at the Forum for Dialogue on Nuclear Futures: Nuclear Futures Forum Final Report- aide-memoire 30.09.08.pdf &
The paper presented to the forum by former Swedish Disarmament Ambassador, Dr Maj Britt Theorin, is accessible as a pdf:
 MajBritt Theorin, 'Four Sworn Men'.pdf   TalkWorks’ Film Project “Talking about nuclear disarmament” ~ was created in February 2009 in order to give a wider public airing to the weight of expert opinion that was gathering behind President Obama’s initiative for the global elimination of nuclear weapons. Using the personal and direct medium of film, the project is designed to offer an open internet forum where influential politicians, diplomats, military and strategic experts, historians, nuclear scientists, and others who shape government policy, express their views on the prospects for success of the US-led initiative, and outline the problems that need to be overcome. The films offer a wide range of informed ideas and practical suggestions for what can and needs to be done now, and open a window for the interested global citizen into the thinking and knowledge of people who are immersed in the issues, whose views are grounded in solid experience, and who are motivated to support President Obama’s initiative. The 10-minute films are based on informal filmed interviews, which are edited and posted on YouTube to be immediately and continually accessible to a worldwide audience. If you want to explore the issues raised by the subjects of each film in more detail, links are provided to papers and articles, and to the affiliated organisations and institutes of each speaker on the First Series page and below.http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/projects/previous_projects/dialogue_projecthttp://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/nuclearfutures.phphttp://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/nuclearfutures.phphttp://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/research_trust_building.htmlhttp://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/research_trust_building.htmlhttp://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/background_files/Nuclear%20Futures%20Forum%20Final%20Report-%20aide-memoire%2030.09.08.pdfbackground_files/MajBritt%20Theorin,%20%27Four%20Sworn%20Men%27.pdffirst_series.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10