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Pugwash Peace & Disarmament Conference – SYP UK Annual Conference

Student/Young Pugwash UK is collaborating with British Pugwash to host a major, one-day conference exploring the prospects for arms control and disarmament over the coming years. The conference will be on 23rd February 2019 at SOAS, London. Register here. Registration and refreshments are at 10am. Opening panel starts at 10.30am sharp. Pugwash Peace & Disarmament Conference will consider […]

Warwick meeting: 24/01/19 – ‘The Death of the Iran Deal and Nuclear Instability’

Blurb by Warwick Student/Young Pugwash: A nuclear storm gathers over the Middle East. Reckless American foreign policy has almost certainly doomed the Iran Nuclear Deal, the only instrument standing between Iran and the acquisition of the deadliest device to have ever existed. If the treaty falls, it will almost certainly spread chaos across the global […]

UCL meeting: 30/01/19 – ‘Autonomous weapons: should cognitive machines be allowed to kill’

UCL Diplomacy in Action society will be hosting Professor John Finney, a physicist and member of British Pugwash, will be presenting the talk: “Autonomous Weapons: should cognitive machines be allowed to kill?”. The talk will provide a key insight into international security and physics too. You don’t have to be a UCL Student to attend, […]

Warwick Peace Conference – multimedia report!

Student / Young Pugwash UK held its third Annual Conference in March 2018, titled ‘Warwick Peace Conference‘. The conference brought in over 70 participants, including young researchers, practitioners and students from across the world. Working Groups explored trends from the worlds of politics and technology and how these may influence war and peace. The agenda […]

Lord Martin Rees: Peering into the Future – The Bumpy Road Ahead

Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, gave a lecture on 5 November at the School of Oriental and African Studies entitled ‘Peering into the Future: The Bumpy Road Ahead’. The meeting was co-hosted by CISD, and British Pugwash.