Pugwash is pleased to announce that the 63rd Pugwash International Conference will take place from 1 – 5 March 2020, kindly hosted by the Government of the State of Qatar in Doha.…
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New British Pugwash Group Exec Committee elected
The British Pugwash Group (BPG) is a membership organisation that brings together scientists and others concerned with international affairs and disarmament. Its Executive Committee for managing the organisation on a day-to-day basis and is responsible for BPG research projects and other types of work.…
Conference workshops – Afternoon – 23rd February 2019
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?
SYP UK papers from Kazakhstan conference published
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’.…
Pugwash Peace & Disarmament Conference – Save the date!
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.…
British Pugwash Annual Report 2017
Key topics include: developments on the international scene, including US and Russia; Trident: emerging technologies; the NPT RevCon and the Disarmament Institute (BRINDI); science and ethics: the ethics of modern robotics; energy policy and climate change; Student / Young Pugwash activities; events in 2017