Annual British Student/Young Pugwash Conference

Interested in International Politics? National, Regional and Global Security? Energy Policy and Climate Change? Seeking to engage with students, young researchers, scholars and professionals? Join us on 21 March for a day-long conference at SOAS, University of London.

OPCW-UN Joint Mission, Syria

The use of chemical weapons in Syria: misleading narratives and ongoing consequences

At a British Pugwash discussion meeting on 1 July 2015, Richard Guthrie and Dr Caitriona MacLeish explored the highly contradictory themes of narratives developed about the Syrian chemical weapons programme and the international responses to it. These events had many ongoing consequences, not least the continuing use of chlorine in barrel bombs which could weaken […]