AGENDA OF RECENT MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES
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- July 19, 2008
“Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence? Nuclear weapons decision making in Europe”, EUROSCIENCE 2008 Barcelona, Open Forum,
by John Finney, British Pugwash Group, United Kingdom
by Carol Naughton, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Awareness Programme United Kingdom
by Georges Parisot, French Pugwash, France
Panel:
Sir David King (Chair) Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford, UK, Former UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office of Science
Ana Maria Gomes European Parliament, Member for Portugal, Vice- Chairwoman Subcommittee on Security and Defence
Bruno Tertrais Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique France
Steve Fetter University of Maryland United States
James Acton King's College London United Kingdom
Richard Garwin IBM Watson Research Center United States (Video collaboration)
- January 21, 2008
“Nuclear Non-Proliferation: crisis and future”, by Bernard Sitt, director of CESIM.
- December 3, 2007
“State’s power and international law, the example of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia”, by Florence Hartmann, french reporter in former Yugoslavia for Le Monde in 1990, former spokeswoman for Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
- April 2, 2007
“The future of Nuclear proliferation”, by Bruno TERTRAIS, Senior Research Fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research (Paris), member de l'International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS, UK), Associate Researcher at the Centre d’Etude des Relations Internationales (CERI).
- March 19, 2007
“Nuclear weapon, international law and us”, by Roland WEYL, Vice President of International Association of Democratic Lawyers and Monique PICARD-WEYL, Member at Council National of « Mouvement de la Paix ».
- February 12, 2007
“The British Pugwash Group and the Nuclear Weapons Awareness Programme”
by Robert A. HINDE and by John FINNEY, Groupe Pugwash-UK and Projects de Pugwash-UK.
- May 2, 2006
“Nuclear and geopolitical view of iranian crisis”, by François HEISBOURG, President of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Special Advisor of the Foundation for Strategic Studies (France) and by Daniel Iagolnitzer, physicist, president of the ADIF, Association for the Defense of the International Humanitarian Fundamental Laws.
- January 23, 2006
“ Scientifics and experts between war and peace, from UNESCO to PUGWASH”, by Michel PINAULT, Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS.
- December 12, 2005
“The history of french atomic bomb”, by Matthew H. ADAMSON, McDaniel College, University of Budapest and University of Indiana.
- 20-21 september, 2005
“Science and International Humanitarian Law”, with the patronage and support of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Euroscience, Pugwash France (French section of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs),
ADIF, Association for the Defense of the International Humanitarian Fundamental Laws, Fondations Daniel Iagolnitzer and La Ferthé (under aegis of the Fondation de France).
By Daniel IAGOLNITZER, physicist, president of the ADIF, France
by Lydie KOCH MIRAMOND, physicist, Scientific advisor, CEA, DSM ; chair of the Committee of Human Rights of the French Physical Society ; convenor of the Working group on Ethics in Science of Euroscience, France
by VINCENT RIVASSEAU, physicist, Professor at the University of Paris-Sud 11, France
International Advisory Board:
Sir Michael ATIYAH, mathematician, Fields medallist and Abel Prize Laureate, former president of the Royal Society (UK) and of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, UK
Pr Ayse ERZAN, physicist, member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, Turkey
Pr Jean-Claude PECKER, astrophysicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, France
Pr Yves QUERE, physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, France
- 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).
Further information may be obtained from
Georges Ripka and Georges Parisot
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