Daisy Alliance is a 501(c)3 non-profit focused on broadening education and awareness on the risks posed by nuclear weapons, with an emphasis on bridging the gap between today's youth and the older generations.  We approach nuclear weapons policy through an intersectional lens, rather than the traditional national security lens.  Our mission is to reframe public discourse on nuclear weapons by emphasizing the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war, promoting the global anti-nuclear norm, and broadening the definition of national security to include human security.  Our work challenges existing national security frameworks by examining the consequences of nuclear arsenals on vulnerable populations, and the inherent racism, sexism, and legacies of colonialism in nuclear and security policies. Daisy Alliance aims to build a new generation of public officials dedicated to changing the way we view security and the role of nuclear weapons in providing that security.

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One key emphasis of our work is broadening education curricula to cover nuclear weapons topics more deeply and critically.  Our education program provides educational and training resources on salient nuclear weapons issues, such as US nuclear posture, reducing the risk of a nuclear detonation through policy change and international fora, and promoting alternative international relations frameworks. We strive to highlight for students the consequences of nuclear weapons on “human” rather than “national “security.”  To support this goal, we create educational materials for high school and college students designed to situate nuclear weapons within a broad context, examining nuclear weapons from diverse perspectives and linking to other salient issues.  Educational programming priorities include drawing the historical and present-day ties the nuclear weapons complex has to other salient issues youth face today such as racism, sexism, classism, and war and imperialism. Application of broader social contexts in which nuclear weapons currently exist and impose risks even without their use in an active war is organized by day-long conferences simulating for students the diplomatic negotiations processes current heads or representatives of States undergo to determine our nuclear futures.  

 

The resources we provide encourage tomorrow's leaders to think outside the box to develop novel solutions to prevent the devastating consequences of a nuclear detonation.  We firmly believe this approach to education can more critically rebuild the nonproliferation and disarmament movement as it not only deepens the ties new youth activists can have to these issues but also potentially bring in greater numbers of students of color or otherwise marginalized backgrounds who are all currently egregiously underrepresented in the nuclear policy space.

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We also engage in raising public awareness on the risks nuclear weapons pose to humanity through public lectures on the humanitarian effects of nuclear weapons, reframing how we think about nuclear weapons, and examining the role nuclear weapons play in global security and relations between countries.  As a member of the Back From the Brink campaign, Daisy Alliance engages in local, grassroots organizing to promote sensible solutions to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons.  A key part of our advocacy and organizing efforts is to strengthen the nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation movement by increasing diversity of those who make up the peace movement.  Some of the anti-nuclear movement's richest moments in history come from the actions of people of color, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Panthers, indigenous leaders from Alaska and the Navajo Nation, and countless citizens of non-aligned and Global South countries.  People who more often than not have been most affected by the development and testing of nuclear weapons, and nuclear weapons policies.  We work to ensure no one is excluded from having a seat at the table, aiming to address systemic discrepancies in the levels of engagement.