On 2nd March 2017, Warwick Pugwash collaborated with Warwick International Relations Society to host KCL’s Dr Heather Williams. Dr Williams spoke about the politics and practicalities of ‘nuclear disarmament during peacetime’. As is tradition, the meeting was followed by pizza for all attendees. Student / Young Pugwash would like to thank Dr Williams for such […]
Pugwash in Nottingham – Challenges to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Published on 16th February 2017 in Recent events
Peter Jenkins, former UK Ambassador to the IAEA (and Chair of British Pugwash), will be speaking and taking questions about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Open to all. Facebook event here. Location: B1, Law & Social Sciences Building, University of Nottingham This meeting is co-organised by the Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism and Student […]
Maritime tensions in the South China Sea – Great Warwick SYP event
Published on 9th February 2017 in Recent events, International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events
On 2nd February, Warwick SYP hosted BASIC’s Sebastian Brixey-Williams, who spoke about tensions in the South China Sea. The event, titled ‘Maritime tensions in the South China Sea – A future field for nuclear tensions’, was well attended by 40+ students and was followed by a lively discussion. Seb touched on some of these issues […]
President of Pugwash at SOAS – Nuclear issues in South Asia
Published on 20th December 2016 in Nuclear Weapons, Recent events, International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events
NB. Audio from the event can be found here. On 8th December Jayantha Dhanapala, the President of Pugwash and former Under-Secretary-General of the UN, spoke to students at SOAS about nuclear issues in South Asia. He covered the relationships between nuclear-armed states like India, China and Pakistan but also how non-nuclear states perceive and interact […]
Physics students get political – University of Nottingham seminar
Published on 8th December 2016 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Ethics of Science, Remote Control Weaponry, Recent events, Student Young Pugwash Events
On 28th November, two members of the British Pugwash Executive Committee addressed an undergraduate Physics class at University of Nottingham. It was a lively two hours, in which students, their Professor and Pugwashites debated the ethics of autonomous robots weapons (‘Killer Robots’), the intergenerational fairness of nuclear waste storage policies and learnt about early attempts by physicists, […]
Introduction to Pugwash – Leeds Student / Young Pugwash
Published on 8th December 2016 in Student Young Pugwash Events
Leeds Student / Young Pugwash held its first meeting on 24th November 2016, where students learnt about the history of Pugwash and brainstormed ideas for future activity. This Pugwash group covers all universities in Leeds. To find out more, email is sypleeds@gmail.com and Facebook is here.