From 27-29 January, a Pugwash delegation comprising the Secretary General, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Chair of British Pugwash Group, Peter Jenkins, and Pugwash Council Members Götz Neuneck, Alexander Nikitin, and Alexander Dynkin had a series of meetings in Moscow to discuss the future of arms control as part of a new Pugwash project. Meetings took place with […]
Three members of Student/Young Pugwash UK attended the prestigious International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO), held in Trento, Italy from 6th to 13th January 2019. ISODARCO is an annual, intensive course for scholars and practitioners, featuring high-profile lecturers from around the world. The title of this year’s course was: “THE PAST AND […]
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 […]
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 […]
Workshop A: Emerging technologies The proposed treaty on autonomous weapons (‘killer robots’) – Ben Donaldson – United Nations Association UK Social Media: Weapon of Mass confusion – David Almassi – Warwick Pugwash Malware Proliferation and Challenges to International Security: Understanding the Impact on Critical Infrastructure – Muhammed Ali – Plymouth University Emerging technologies: Making nuclear weapons irrelevant? […]
In August 2017, senior and youth members of International Pugwash met in Astana, Kazakhstan, for the 62nd Pugwash Conference – ‘Confronting New Nuclear Dangers’ (multimedia here). Russian Pugwash has recently published a selection of papers from the conference, in their new publication ‘Global and regional security issues and prospects for cooperation’. Within the collection is a […]
