We’re here to make a difference.
ELN’s mission is to resolve conflict in line with our charitable objectives. We focus on the prevention of nuclear or other catastrophic conflict, because it’s so important, and because we have the people, expertise and access to make a real contribution.
Our commitment to developing and pursuing practical recommendations, road tested with current and former practitioners, delivers results.
ELN works in multiple ways across its projects to help prevent conflicts and reduce the risks of nuclear war. To address these big global challenges, multiple approaches and viewpoints are needed and each ELN project has its own distinct objectives and methods.
We frequently work with governments using our network of current, former and future leaders, officials and diplomats. We also work with civil society and the private sector and enjoy reaching the places that are harder for governments to reach.
Russia, NATO and other European countries have recently engaged in a week of intensive diplomacy, which has touched on both recent tensions and long-term relations. ELN members are united in a belief in the necessity of dialogue across divides, and many have provided their thoughts on the current situation.
In the recent years, the ELN’s work on the P5 Process has focused on the call for the P5 states to set up a working group to advance strategic risk reduction. In the aftermath of the P5 statement reaffirming the Reagan-Gorbachev formula, the ELN will continue to keep open the space for engagement with the P5 Process to help provide the ideas and encouragement for further progress.
The ELN works to build the closest possible contacts with NATO and the OSCE to target our research and have the greatest impact on policy. The ELN has good relationships with numerous current NATO officials, as demonstrated by the excellent reaction to our recent reports on fostering NATO-EU...
The ELN has been committed to working to preserve the Iran nuclear deal through its analysis, advocacy and mobilising its senior pan-European network.
Since 2014, we have continued to press governments to reduce the risks from hazardous military incidents, with real world results.
On the 29th and 30th of October 2024, the ELN convened a two-day workshop as part of its project, “Simulating Technological Complexity & Advancing Risk Reduction”, to explore how experimental AI-driven prototypes might enhance decision-making and reduce risks associated with Emerging and Disruptive Technologies in the nuclear domain.
From 22 July – 2 August, diplomats and governments were in Geneva to assess and make recommendations for the full implementation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, at the second Preparatory Committee of the 2026 Review Conference. The European Leadership Network was well represented. Several...
Join the ELN at the 2024 PrepCom for two side events tackling the role and salience of nuclear weapons and guardrails for emerging and disruptive technologies
On 10th-11th April 2024, the ELN convened a group of diverse experts for a workshop at the German Federal Foreign Office to consider the core ingredients of a guardrails and checklist framework that will help policymakers anticipate and address challenges arising from Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDTs) and their aggregate effects on nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) and nuclear weapons decision-making.
The VCDNP and the European Leadership Network (ELN) hosted a public hybrid event on the ELN report “AI and nuclear command, control and communications: P5 perspectives” to explore the risks of AI in nuclear decision-making.
Planned activities for the 2024 Munich Security Conference, including a side event with US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
