On 1st March, Student / Young Pugwash held a joint event with the Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism (CST) at University of Nottingham. The guest speaker was Peter Jenkins, who spoke about the history, successes and challenges of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Peter, who is now Chair of British Pugwash, is a former UK Ambassador […]
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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 […]
Rotblat Lecture 2016: William Perry ‘My Journey to the nuclear brink’
Published on 1st December 2016 in Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Recent events, International Peace & Security
The 12th Joseph Rotblat Lecture at the Hay Festival, held on 2 June 2016 in cooperation with WMD Awareness, featured William Perry, Bill Clinton’s Defence Secretary on ‘My Journey at the Nuclear Brink’, in conversation with Nik Gowing.
What has become of the July 2015 Nuclear Agreement with Iran?
Published on 1st November 2016 in Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Disarmament, Events, Recent events, International Peace & Security
At a British Pugwash discussion meeting on 11 October, Peter Jenkins outlined the status of the agreement made between Iran and the P5+1 in July 2015, to resolve concerns about the nature of Iran’s nuclear programme and reviewed its future prospects.
The Syrian Conflict : where from and where to
Published on 16th August 2016 in International Peace & Security, Student Young Pugwash Events
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, […]