Archive | 2016

Annual British Student / Young Pugwash Conference (25th March 2017)

Student/ Young Pugwash has put together a multidisciplinary conference about nuclear weapons and arms control / disarmament, looking at recent changes in science/technology, international law, IR and theory/discourse. The conference is titled ‘Uncharted Territory: Arms control and disarmament in the New Nuclear Age‘ and will be held at SOAS on 25th March 2017. All welcome. For info and […]

Trump or Clinton: Implications for International Security

Warwick Pugwash Student Society (WPSS) held its first event of the academic year on 3rd November 2016, just a few days before the US Presidential election. The guest speaker was Rory Kinane, Warwick alumnus and manager of the US and Americas Programme at Chatham House. Rory gave a wide-ranging presentation covering the (often changeable) foreign policy […]

British Pugwash Newsletter October 2016

British Pugwash Newsletter October 2016 Topics include: New Chair of British Pugwash; Emerging technologies and the nuclear debate; COMEST and robotics; Student/Young Pugwash: first annual conference; Climate change and the Global Energy Calculator

The Syrian Conflict : where from and where to

The Warwick Pugwash Student Society (WPSS) held it’s first event on the 22nd of October 2015 at the University of Warwick. The discussion on the long lasting Syrian conflict and its complex pattern of alliances and enmities, was led by Dr Nicola Pratt and gathered over 35 students. Dr Nicola Pratt has extensively researched and written on democratization, […]

British Pugwash Annual Report 2015

Key topics: developments on the international disarmament scene with major implications for British Pugwash; Trident update; the 2015 NPT Review Conference; the Disarmament Institute (BRINDI); science and ethics, including autonomous weapons; chemical weapons; UK and European energy policy.