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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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
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.
The Middle East and the quest for a nuclear weapon-free world
On 5 October 2009 Pugwash President Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala addressed the 4th London Conference on A Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone, organised by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, and co-sponsored by British Pugwash.
Ashdown’s Third Law
On 25 May 2009 Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon delivered the annual Rotblat lecture at the Hay Festival, co-sponsored by British Pugwash and the WMD Awareness Programme. Paddy Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats (1988-1999) and International High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002-2006).