This annual lecture at the Guardian Hay Festival was given this year by Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, a memoir about the struggle for justice in Kashmir.
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Armed robots and military nanotechnology
At a British Pugwash discussion meeting at which Prof. Jürgen Altmann of the Faculty of Physics, Technische Universität Dortmund reviewed the military uses of robots, particularly uninhabited vehicles (UAVs) and their potential future role in and influence on warfare, and the possibilities of their preventive limitation.
Connecting Inconvenient Truths: The Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament in a World of Pressing Problems
1 December 2009. Welcome: Lord Rees of Ludlow, President of the Royal Society; Speaker: Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala former UN Under-Secretary General; Chair: Baroness Williams of Crosby, special advisor to the Prime Minister
Securing Fissile Materials
26 November 2009. A VERTIC/British Pugwash joint event to launch a new British Pugwash Report, The Management of Separated Plutonium in the UK.
Ending War
18 November 2009. A CCAD Event presenting British Pugwash President Robert Hinde’s book Ending War: A Recipe.
The Military-Industrial Complex, the Bottom Billion and the UN
At a meeting in Cambridge on 12 November 2009, Pugwash President Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala discussed the linkage between human security and national security, exploring the resources behind the military-industrial complex and the failure to meet the Millennium Development Goals.