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Database of TPNW articles, books, chapters, reports and videos
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This spreadsheet contains details of journal articles, books, book chapters and NGO reports directly, or very closely, related to the 'humanitarian initiative on nuclear weapons' (HINW) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). You can sort the columns by author, year, title and so on and you can search the site using key words in the usual way.
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It is intended as a living resource to bring together the rich body of research, thinking and argument that has emerged on this initiative from the late 2000s onwards.
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The database was compiled in May 2021. The 'Date added' column records the month new materials published since May 2021 were added. I will post details of new publications @DrNickRitchie.
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The NGO/think tank reports all have links. The journal articles have links to abstracts, but the majority are behind paywalls. However, quite a few are available through www.researchgate.net and the vast majority of authors here will, I'm sure, be willing to forward a pdf if asked.
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I have included in this collection materials that connect nuclear weapons to gender, post-colonialism, and human and environmental harms in the context of the HINW and TPNW, whilst noting that these themes have a much longer heritage than the period covered here from the late 2000s onwards. I have not included the very many short commentary pieces that have been published over the years.
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The materials are all English-language. If you know of good non-English materials, please send me the details with a translation of the title.
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Please email me at nick.ritchie@york.ac.uk if I have missed anything or when new resources are published. A short link is https://tinyurl.com/TPNWdatabase
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Additional resources
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Please visit Reaching Critical Will for government statements and working papers submitted to NPT PrepComs and RevCons, the UN General Assembly First Committee, the 2013 and 2016 UN Open-Ended Working Groups (OEWGs) on the future of nuclear disarmament, the three humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons conferences in Norway, Mexico and Austria, and the negotiating sessions of the TPNW. Link here.
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For an annotated list of readings on 'Countering Racism and Other Structures of Exclusion and Domination in Teaching and Research on Nuclear Issues' see Princeton's Program on Science & Global Security 'Curriculum Resources Project'. Link here.
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For more extensive resources on gender and nuclear weapons, please visit:
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 - BASIC's 'Gender and Nuclear Weapons: A Bibliography'. Link here.
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 - The Reaching Critical Will ' Gender and Disarmament' database. Link here.
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 - The Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights site 'Research Hub' page. Link here.
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 - A database of academic articles, books and chapters on 'The Nuclear Taboo' at the the Peace Research Center Prague (2022). Link here.
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Dr Nick Ritchie, University of York
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nick.ritchie@york.ac.uk
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P.S.
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I draw your attention in the first instance to two prescient pieces that I think first captured the thinking that underpinned the the HINW and that all important paragraph in the 2010 NPT Review Conference Final Document, which said "The Conference expresses its deep concern at the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and reaffirms the need for all States at all times to comply with applicable international law, including international humanitarian law." Link here.
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1. Zia Mian (2009), 'Beyond the Security Debate: The Moral and Legal Dimensions of Abolition' in George Perkovich and James Action Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). Link here.
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2. Patricia Lewis (2009), 'A New Approach to Nuclear Disarmament: Learning from International Humanitarian Law Success', Research Report No. 13, International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND: Foreign ministries of Australia and Japan). Link here.
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