At a British Pugwash discussion meeting on 30 April 2009 Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Andreas Persbo (VERTIC), Middle East expert Nomi Bar-Yaacov and Olive Tree Programme Director Rosemary Hollis addressed ‘Prospects for Peace in the Middle East, post-Gaza and the Israeli election’.
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Ending War – A Recipe
Robert Hinde, Ending War: A Recipe (December 2008) “Not this year, not in my lifetime, perhaps in yours, and with a strong probability in my grandchildren’s lifetimes, war will be seen as an unacceptable way of settling disputes between states. The aim of this book is to hasten the day.”
Philippe Sands gives the Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture
Philippe Sands, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals, Faculty of Law, University College London, gave the 2008 Joseph Rotblat memorial lecture at the Hay Festival on 1 June, co-sponsored by British Pugwash and the WMD Awareness Programme.
Developments in NATO and the EU
At a public discussion meeting on10 May 2007, Lord Roper, former Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for German Studies of the University of Birmingham discussed the deployment of military force by NATO and the EU since the end of the Cold War.
Iran at the Crossroads
1 June 2006, British Institute of Radiology, London. Speakers: Dr Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate and human rights lawyer, Dr Ali Ansari, Reader in Modern History, University of St Andrews, Associate Fellow, Iran Programme, Chatham House.
Weaponisation of Space
10 December 2004, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. Speakers: Prof. Bhupendra Jasani, Department of War Studies, King’s College London Joelien Pretorius, Centre for International Studies, Cambridge, Prof. Dan Plesch, Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College