The ELN’s 2024 impact report, “The power of diverse networks” , details the organisation’s accomplishments in reducing the risk of existential conflict and the power of our diverse network, even at moments of deep geopolitical tension.
The report highlights how the ELN’s unique network can shape the debate on the world’s most urgent security challenges. Through our three core programmes – multilateral arms control and non-proliferation, Russia–West relations, and Emerging Disruptive Technologies and risk reduction – we have combined innovative research, practical policy recommendations, engagement with governments and international organisations, and dialogue across divides to reduce nuclear risks and build a safer Europe.
The ELN’s impact highlights of 2024 include:
- Our Protecting the Non-Proliferation Treaty project helped reinforce the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty through solutions-focused policy recommendations. At the 2024 NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) held at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, the ELN presented network-tested recommendations from two policy briefs, influencing dialogue within diplomatic circles.
- We built trust and identified areas for future collaboration between nuclear weapon states on nuclear fail-safe reviews through our Nuclear fail-safe review project. The ELN convened two high-level track 1.5 dialogues in London and Paris and convened Russian experts virtually to better understand domestic approaches and attitudes to unilateral review mechanisms.
- Through facilitating track 2 and 1.5 open and closed-door senior-level expert and political dialogues across the continent, we brought together experts from the US, Europe, Ukraine, Turkey, and Russia, to help strengthen dialogue on sustainable security arrangements in wider Europe.
- We devised new tools and framework for governments, including a Guardrails and Self- Assessment (GSA) framework and two prototype digital tools, to enhance understanding of how EDTs may interact to influence nuclear decision-making processes. These were presented to UK parliamentarians and showcased at international forums, including the 2024 PrepCom.
The European Leadership Network itself as an institution holds no formal policy positions. The opinions articulated in this report represent the views of the author rather than the European Leadership Network or its members. The ELN aims to encourage debates that will help develop Europe’s capacity to address the pressing foreign, defence, and security policy challenges of our time, to further its charitable purposes.
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