December 8, 2009

Dear friends,

The Washington Post is holding a contest to select charities to receive a part of President Obama’s Nobel prize money ($1,451,260). The deadline to submit names of organizations is tonight at midnight (EST).

The Global Security Institute, (the organizational and financial host for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament), was founded by United States Senator Alan Cranston with the aim of strengthening international cooperation, arms control and disarmament, based on the rule of law. Now we have an American President whose exact same aims won him the Nobel Prize.

But anyone who has been following the US healthcare debate knows that success requires more than courageous leadership at the top. In order to achieve our collective goal of creating the security of a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama needs support from other world leaders, Congress, parliaments, and global civil society. With GSI actively working at all of these levels, what better organization to be selected to help President Obama achieve the goals for which he won the Prize?

Send in your nomination of the Global Security Institute to nobel@washpost.com. In order to make your vote eligible, you must include a phone number so you can be contacted.

Your help is truly appreciated .



Yours truly,



Rhianna Tyson Kreger
Senior Officer, Global Security Institute



Alyn Ware
PNND Global Coordinator

(For a media report on the links between PNND and the Nobel Prize to President Obama see Barack and Alyn, by Roger Smith, Common Dreams, 15 October 2009).