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THE FRENCH PUGWASH GROUP
 

 

 

AGENDA OF RECENT MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES

  • May 24, 2005
    "Human security and European Union defence policy"
    by Genevieve SCHMEDER, Professor CNAM, IEP, Uni Paris X,.
  • March 21, 2005
    "Iran between nationalism, islamism and mondialism: rogue state or future pole of stability?"
    by Bernard HOURCADE, Director of research at CNRS (Iranian World) , Uni Paris III, INaLCO, EPHE
  • February 21, 2005
    " Do biotechnologies reinforce  bioterrorist threats? "
    by Dominique LEGLU, director of the drafting of the monthly magazine “Sciences et Avenir”.
  •  December 14, 2004
    " War and Justice"
    by Antoine GARAPON, Magistrate, Secretary General of  the Institut des Hautes Etudes on justice
  • October 25, 2004
    Assessment of a “Pugwash summer”

-       PUGWASH General Conference (Seoul, ROK, October 4-9, 2004), by Georges Le GUELTE (and inputs from Pierre CANONNE).

-       1st EUROSCIENCE Open Forum"Social responsibility of scientific institutions" (Stockholm, August 26, 2004) convened by Lydie KOCH MIRAMOND, participation from G. TOULOUSE.

-       PUGWASH Workshop “Science, Ethics and Society(Ajaccio, September 9-12, 2004)               by Lydie KOCH MIRAMOND.

  • June 8, 2004
    " What kind of European safety ? "
    by Philippe MOREAU DEFARGES, IFRI, co-director of RAMSES.
  •  April 7, 2004
    "IRAQ, untraceable weapons "
    by Hans BLIX, former chairman UNMOVIC, invited by PUGWASH France and IRIS                      ("IRAK, les armes introuvables ", Fayard publ.)
  • March 1, 2004
    " 2003: Crises and conflicts in the Middle East and Maghreb”
    by Remy LEVEAU, IFRI, Director of studies at CERI IEP (Arab world section).
  • January 26, 2004
    " The future for nuclear disarmament and others weapons known as mass destruction weapons?”
    by Jean-Pierre STROOT, Geneva Pugwash Office, President of the Board of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI)
  • December 1,  2003
    "North Korea, Iran : recent trends in nuclear proliferation”
    by Georges Le GUELTE, Director of research, IRIS (International and Strategic Relations Institute)
  • June 2,  2003
    "Current iraki questions : post war stakes "
    by Pierre-Jean LUIZARD, CNRS (Groupe de Sociologie des Religions et de la Laïcité)
  • April 28, 2003  " The inadequacy of international law to the world situation and evolution"
    by Monique CHEMILLIER-GENDREAU, Professor of  Public Law at University of Paris VII-Denis Diderot ; Consultant at UNESCO
  • March 3, 2003
    " The World Ethics College "
    by Stephane HESSEL, ambassador of France.
  • February 10, 2003
    "Anatomy of Septembre 11, 2001: Violence, Religion, Ethics"
    by Jean-Pierre DUPUY,  Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford University.
  • January 28 to February 3, 2003
    Mission  to Israel and Palestine
    by a group including Raymond Aubrac, Stéphane Hessel, Gérard Toulouse, Annick Suzor Weiner, Jean-Jacques Salomon, Kenneth Brown, Suzanne de Brunhoff, Mathieu de Brunhoff, Sacha Goldman, Christiane Hessel, Martin Hirsch, Abraham Segal, Michele Zemor.
  • January 13, 2003
    "The aftermath of Chernobyl, Irradiation, Stress, Social Disruption"
    by Roland MASSE, Honorary Chairman, OPRI, french agency for Protection against ionizing radiation
  • November 28, 2002
    "The Future of Nuclear Weapons"
    by Richard L. GARWIN, Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations, New York
  • November 7, 2002
    "On the Johannesburg Conference"
    by Michel MOUSEL, Chairman, French Committee for the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
  • October 7, 2002
    "The new US-Russian strategic arms agreement and US nuclear posture"
    by Georges LE GUELTE, Director of research at the International and Strategic Relations Institute in Paris
  • September 30, 2002
    Association Française pour le Mouvement Pugwash
    Annual General Meeting , election of council and officers
  • June 10, 2002
    "Sustainable Development"
    by Robert LION, Club Convictions;
  • May 2, 2002
    "PAKISTAN'S Nuclear bomb -- Past, Present, and Future"
    by Pervez HOODBHOY , Professor of Physics, Quaïd-e-Azam University, Islamabad,
  • April 8, 2002
    "Biological arms, myth and reality after the episode of anthrax contaminated letters."
    by Olivier LEPICK, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique.
  • March 11, 2002
    "The Galileo program"
    by André LEBEAU, Professor, Centre National des Arts et Metiers.
  • February 4, 2002
    "The chemical weapon"
    by Colonel Claude MEYER, Université de Marne-la-Vallée
  • January 14, 2002
    "The political future of Europe"
    by Christian LEQUESNE, CERI
  • December 17, 2001
    "Israel/Palestine/Jerusalem: maps to compare"
    by Jean-Christophe VICTOR
  • November 5, 2001
    "The problematics of the fight against corruption"
    by Jean-Claude PAYE
    Former Secretary General of the OECD, Vice-President of Transparency-International France
  • June 11, 2001
    "Evolution of climate: certainties and uncertainties",
    by Jean JOUZEL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat (CNRS/CEA).
  • May 9, 2001
    "Breaks and continuity in the strategy and technology American policy",
    by Xavier PASCO, Fondation des Recherches Stratégiques.
  • April 6, 2001
    Workshop on Nuclear Missile Defense, organized jointly by
    Association Française du mouvement Pugwash and Fondation pour la recherche stratégique.
    The workshop was held on the premises of the French Academy of Sciences. The speakers were:
    Georges Lewis, Security Studies Program, MIT
    David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists, Security Studies Program, MIT
    Richard Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus
    James Woolsey, Partner at Shea & Gardner
    Alexander Tarasov, Russian Diplomatic Academy 1
    Louis Levêque, EADS/Launch Vehicles 1
    Michel Billard, THALES Air Operations1
    Masako Ikegami-Andersson, Centre for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm
    Download the proceedings of the April 6th meeting in Adobe PDF format.
    For more information, visit http://www.frstrategie.org/
  • April 2, 2001
    "The future of nuclear electrical power in France"
    by Jean-Michel Charpin, Commissaire au Plan.
  • February 26, 2001
    "The difficult transition of the Russian nuclear complex"
    by Amiral Camille Sellier, former commander of nuclear submarine, consultant on strategic affairs at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, and AIDA program of aid for the dismantlement of nuclear arms and the pacific use of fissile materials in Russia.
  • January 8, 2001
    "Wars and new conflicts : the responsibility of scientists"
    by Jean-Jacques Salomon, honorary professor, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, author of « Survivre à la Science ; une certaine idée du futur » (Albin Michel).
  • December 4, 2000 - « Computers and security », by Jacques Beigbeder, director of the computing facilities at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and member of the association "Observatoire de la sécurité des systèmes informatiques et des réseaux".
  • November 6, 2000 - « The physics and the experimental facilities of power lasers », by Jean-Pierre Chièze, astrophysicist at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and responsible for the "Groupe d'investigation du laser mégajoule".
  • June 5, 2000 - « START and the development of nuclear arsenals », by Georges Le Guelte, directeur de recherches at the Institut des Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) and author of Histoire de la menace nucléaire (Hachette) and Start et le désarmement (Nucléon).
  • April 25, 2000 - « The alert satellites and the nuclear debate », by Isabelle Sourbès-Verger, Laboratoire Communication et Politique of the CNRS, Fondation pour la Recherche Scientifique, professor at the université Marne-la-Vallée.
  • March 20, 2000 - « Are ad hoc international courts laboratories for common law? », by Emanuela Fronza, assistant of penal law at the University of Bologna, specialist of the defense of fundamental human rights and of the repression of international crime, in particular of genocide by means of international courts.
  • November 15, 1999 - « The failings of computers : a new menace », by Jean-François Colonna, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées of the Ecole Polytechnique and author of Le bug de l'an 2000, Comprendre l'informatique jusque dans ses défaillances (Flammarion, 1999).
  • December 13, 1999
    « Panel meeting on the conflit in former Yugoslavia »,
    with Florence Hartmann, journalist in Le Monde and author of Milosevic, La diagonale du fou (Denoël, 1999).
  • June 7 1999 - « For a new contract between science and society », by Pierre Calame, director of the foundation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le progrès de l'homme and author of Mission possible, penser l'avenir de la planète (Desclée Brouwer, 1995).
  • May 4, 1999 - « The perspectives of nuclear proliferation and the case of India », by Jacques Hymans, Ecole Normale Supérieure i and Harvard.
  • April 12, 1999
    « Panel debate on the war in Kosovo », with Antoine Garapon, Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice.
  • March 15, 1999 - « The relation between the military and scientists in France », by Dominique Pestre, directeur d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and author of Physique et physiciens en France (Archives contemporaines), and Roger Godement, professor of mathematics at the Université Paris VII.
  • February 1, 1999 - « Science in the XXIst century: elements for a new engagement », by Ana Maria Cetto, professor of physics at the University of Mexico, president of the Executive Council of Pugwash Conferences for Science and World affairs and vice-president of TWOWS (Third World Organisation for Women in Science).