Name: Cameron Fletcher

Social Justice Group: 2023-2024, Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Proliferation

Date of Fieldwork: February 8, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Daniel Prins

Type of Fieldwork: [69]

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?:

Me and my piers in the Nuclear Proliferation justice group recently had an interview with Daniel Prins. Daniel Prins is a former member of the United Nations and represented the Netherlands. He gave us a lot of insight as to how countries are being asked to stop using weapons and how we could end them. One of the biggest points he made was that it’s hard for countries to drop their weapons because of the fact that other countries have them. This fear of other nations is what holds back the disarmament of nuclear weapons. We also learned that some countries have agreed to disarm but there has never been a date and thus, no progress. Overall our interview was very informative and we are glad to have spoken with Daniel Prins.