Subject(s): Disarmament -- Arm control -- Multilateral disarmament and Arm control negotiations -- Diplomats, civil society and academia some thoughts on the limits of the discourse -- International relations and the study of cooperation, game theory perspective and multilateral arms control and disarmament negotiations, Two-level games, Civil society activism in Arm control and disarmament process -- NGOs and multilateral disarmament diplomacy: limits and possibilities -- Promising avenue for NGO engagement in Multilateral diplomacy settings -- Changing perception and practice in multilateral Arm control negotiations -- Cooperation and defection in the conference on disarmament -- Deadlock and its discontents, Inefficient equilibria -- Engineering progress: a Diplomat's perspective on multilateral disarmament -- Transformative potential -- Flexibility in Regional groups, procedures, relations with headquarters, involving non-state partners -- Physics of diplomacy . Dynamics of complex social phenomena and their implication for multilateral negotiations -- rational approach, Pertinence of a physics of society, Implications for multilateral negotiations -- Non-liner modelling of small arms proliferation -- Security of journalists: making the case for modelling armed violence as a means to promote human security -- Investment policies and arms production - Experience from the Norwegian pension find- global -- Humanitarian principles and negative screening of certain weapon producers , possible consequences of exclusion of weapon producers -- Role of non-governmental organisations in the monitoring and verification of international arms control and disarmament agreements -- Differing approaches to NGO monitoring and verification -- Enhancing the quality and scope of future NGO monitoring and verification of arms control and disarmament agreements