Keller Rohrback Legal Team Included in Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize

The Keller Rohrback legal team has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for its advocacy on behalf of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

The RMI filed landmark lawsuits in the International Court of Justice against the nine nuclear-armed nations for failing to comply with their obligations under international law to pursue negotiations for the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons and filed a parallel case against the United States in the US Federal District Court.   RMI argues that the nuclear weapons‐possessing countries have breached their obligations under article VI of the Treaty on the Non‐Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and customary international law by continuing to modernize their arsenals and by failing to pursue negotiations in good faith on nuclear disarmament.

Established in 1910, the International Peace Bureau “is dedicated to the vision of a World Without War,” and has submitted its nomination because it “sincerely believes that the Marshall Islands initiative will prove to be a significant and decisive step in ending the nuclear arms race and in achieving a world without nuclear weapons.”