Disarmament
Conclusion: Telling survivor stories, the best way we know
A month after my conversation with Tanaka-san, I saw him again, but this time on my computer screen. In a video, he was on a stage decorated with wispy strands of Japanese knotweed and orange amaryllis blossoms, arranged around a podium bearing the golden Nobel Peace Prize seal.
Acknowledgements
Volume 49 of the United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, like previous editions, was a collaboration to which the staff of the Office for Disarmament Affairs devoted considerable time and effort. It was prepared under the overall direction of the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, and the Director of the Office, Adedeji Ebo. We sincerely thank all colleagues who contributed to this publication on behalf of other funds, programmes, entities and organizations.
Note
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs is publishing this material within the context of General Assembly resolution on the United Nations Disarmament Information Programme (79/69) in order to further an informed debate on topical issues of arms limitation, disarmament and security. This publication series aims to give civil society a platform to express views on disarmament and related matters.
Survivor story, intersubjectivity and bearing witness
Telling stories has helped nuclear weapons survivors forge a collective voice, which they deftly harnessed to gain political representation and advance disarmament policy.
Survivor stories mobilize multilateral disarmament
Nuclear weapons survivor stories carry immense power when shared with Governments responsible for pursuing nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear weapons survivor stories today: select projects
Unlike the fleeting urgency of a news headline or the bland neutrality of a textbook, survivor stories, in their varied forms, have an extraordinary ability to seize our attention.