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Pugwash Meeting no. 289
Pugwash Workshop

2nd Pugwash Workshop on Terrorism:
External and Domestic Consequences of the War on Terrorism

Como, Italy, 9-12 October 2003

Participant List

Dr Athem Alsabti, Research Fellow/Astrophysics, University of London Observatory/University College London, UK; Vice Chairman, Cornwall Astronomical Society; Vice Chairman, Laplace Institute on Asteroids; President, British Mandaean Council (Charity Organization); CEO for the International Conference on Higher Education & Research in Iraq; Founding member, Iraqi Academy of Sciences [formerly: Professor, Baghdad University, Science College, Physics Department; Founder, Iraqi Astronomical Society; Founder and Director, Baghdad Planetarium; Founder and Project Manager, Iraqi National Observatory on Mount Korek/Arbil/Kurdistan/North Iraq
*Office: University of London Observatory/University College London, Mill Hill, London NW7 2QS, UK, Tel: (++44-208) 291-5085, Fax: (++44-208) 291-9211. E-mail: a.alsabti@ucl.ac.uk
Home: 21 Liphook Crescent, Forest Hill, London SE23 3BN, UK

Dr. Haitham M.A. Al-Shaibani, former: Dean of the Military Engineering College (1994-99); Head of the Department of Health Physics, Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization (1981-91); Consultant in the field of radiation protection & nuclear safety, Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization (1988-91); Head of Committee studying the effects of the environmental aspects of the 1991 war in Iraq (1991-94); Expert as Member of the Supreme Council of Environmental Protection in Iraq (1984-95)
Contact: Tel. : (++964-1) 774-0843, E-mail: haithemshaibani@hotmail.com

Prof. Gabriel Baramki (Canada/Palestine), Consultant to the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education, Ramallah; President, Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace  [formerly: Member, Pugwash Council; Acting President, Birzeit University; Secretary-General, Palestinian Council for Higher Education]
*Office: Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education, PO Box 17360, Jerusalem, via Israel, Tel.: (++970-2) 298-2604, Fax: (++970-2) 295-4518, E-mail: gbaramki@gov.ps
Home: 128 Radio Street, Bireh/Ramallah, Tel.: (970-2) 295-2385, E-mail: gbaramki@hotmail.com

Dr. Iyad Barghouti, Director, Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies, and Professor of Political Sociology at Al Najah University, Nablus
*Office:  Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies, Nablus, Fax: (++970-9) 233-5880, E-mail: rchrs@palnet.com
Home: Tel.: (++970-9) 237-6919, E-mail: rchrs@rchrs.org

Prof. Francesco Calogero, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy [formerly: Secretary-General (1989-97), Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Chairman (1997-2002), Pugwash Council; Member (1982-92), Governing Board, SIPRI]
*Office: Rome Pugwash Office, via della Lungara 10, I-00165 Rome, Italy, Tel.: (**39-06) 687-2606, Fax: (**39-06) 687-8376, E-mail: francesco.calogero@uniroma1.it, Francesco.calogero@roma1.infn.it

Dr. Christopher Chyba, Associate Professor (Research), Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Carl Sagan Chair for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA; Co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA [formerly : Director, International Environmental Affairs, National Security Council Staff, National Security Division, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House]
*Office : Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Encina Hall, Stanford, CA, 94305-6165, USA, Tel. : (++1-650) 725-4918, Fax : (++1-650) 723-0089, E-mail : chyba@stanford.edu

Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy; Director, Program on Disarmament and International  Security, Landau Network – Centro Volta, Como, Italy [formerly: Secretary General, Union of Italian Scientists for Disarmament (USPID)]
*Office: Department of Physics, University of Milan, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy, Tel.: (**39-02) 5031 7277, Fax: (**39-02) 5031 7480, E-mail: cotta@mi.infn.it
Home: Via Keplero 10, 20124 Milan, Italy, Tel.: (**39-02) 688 7909

Mr. Peter J. Croll, Director, Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Bonn, Germany [formerly: Director, GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) Office, Nairobi, Kenya; Director, GTZ Office, Harare, Zimbabwe; Department Head and General Management Advisor,  GTZ headquarters in Germany; Senior Advisor to the Development Bank of Zambia in Lusaka; Associate Expert for Industrial Development in the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) in Mexico City
*Office:  BICC, An der Elisabethkirche 25, 53113 Bonn, Germany, Tel.: (++49-228) 911 96-0, Fax: (++49-228) 24 12 15, E-mail: croll@bicc.de
Home: Argelander Str. 151, 53115 Bonn, Germany, Tel.: (++49-160) 9051-5041 (mobile)

Dr. Yair Hirschfeld, Director General, Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), Tel-Aviv, Israel; Professor of Middle East History, Haifa University, and an expert in international relations and conflict resolution [formerly: initiated the Oslo channel and led the Oslo negotiations in their first unofficial stage]
*Office:  ECF,  4 Hashalom Rd., Tel-Aviv 67892, Israel, Tel.: (++972-3) 5614422, Fax: (++972-3)v561-8040, E-mail: ecf@ecf.org.il
Home: Tel.: (++972-4) 9833221, Fax: (++972-4) 9931242

Dr. Bijan Khajepour, Chairman, Atieh Bahar Consulting, Tehran, Iran
*Office: Atieh Bahar Consulting, 74 Argentine Square, First Floor (P.O. Box 13145-869), Tehran 15139, Iran, Tel.: (++98-21) 872-1112, Fax: (++98-21) 872-0077, E-mail: bijan@atiehbahar.com

Prof. Maurizio Martellini, Secretary General, Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy; Professor of Physics, University of Insubria, Como, Italy
*Office: Landau Network-Centro Volta, Villa Olmo, Via Cantoni 1, I-22100, Como, Italy, Tel.: (++39-031) 579 820, Fax: (++39-031) 573 395, E-Mail: maurizio.martellini@centrovolta.it
Home: Viale Abruzzi, 70/A, I-20133 Milan, Italy, Tel.: (++39-02) 204-3844

Prof. Ariel Merari, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, and Director, Political Violence Research Unit [formerly: Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), Kennedy School, Harvard] E-mail: merari@post.tau.ac.il

Dr. Steven Miller, Director, International Security Program, Center for Science & International Affairs (CSIA), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Member, Pugwash Council; Co-Chair, U.S. Pugwash Group [formerly: Senior Research Fellow, SIPRI; Assistant Professor, Defence and Arms Control Studies, MIT]
*Office: CSIA, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tel.: (++1-617) 495 1411, Fax: (++1-617) 495 8963, E-mail: steven_miller @harvard.edu

Dr. Alexander Nikitin, Director, Center for Political and International Studies (CPIS), Moscow, Russia; Deputy Chair, Russian Pugwash Committee of Scientists for Disarmament and International Security; Vice-President of the Russian Political Science Association; Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations; Member, Pugwash Council
*Office: Center for Political and International Studies, Prospect Mira 36, Moscow 129010, Russia, Tel.: (++7-095)280-3441, Fax: (++7-095) 135-5279, E-mail: cpis@mail.ru

Deborah N. Pearlstein, Esq., Senior Advisor, U.S. Law and Security Program, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Washington, DC, USA; Visiting Fellow, Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University [formerly: Senior Editor and Speechwriter for President Clinton, The White House; Teaching Fellow, Harvard Law School’s Master of Laws Program]
*Office:  Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 10 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Suite 500, Washington, DC 20002-5625, USA, Tel.: (++1-650) 357-0346, Fax: (++1-202) 543-5999

Mr. Tariq Rauf (Canada), Head, Verification and Security Policy Coordination Section, Office of External Relations and Policy Coordination, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria
*Office: Office of External Relations and Policy Coordination, EXPO, A-2784, PO Box 100, IAEA, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, Tel.: (++43-1) 2600 22705, Fax: (+43-1) 2600 29785, E-mail: T.Rauf@iaea.org

Mr. Mark Sedra (Canada), Associate Researcher (Political Science & History in Central Asia and the Middle East), Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Bonn, Germany
*Office:  BICC, An der Elisabethkirche 25, 53113 Bonn, Germany, Tel.: (++49-228) 91196-0, E-mail: sedra@bicc.de
Home: 18 High Park Blvd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6R 1M4, Tel.: (++1-416) 535-3033, E-mail: marksedra@hotmail.com

Amb. Dr. Mohamed I. Shaker, Vice Chairman, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, Cairo, Egypt; [formerly: Egypt’s Ambassador to the UK (1988-1997)]
*Office: Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, 120 Mohie Eddin Abul Ezz Street, Mohandessin – Cairo, Egypt, Tel./Fax: (++20-2) 735-9593, E-mail: moshaker@ecfa-egypt.org.
Home: 9 El-Aziz Osman Street, Zamalek, Cairo – Egypt

Gen. Baruch Spiegel, retired General in the IDF, currently Consultant, Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), Tel Aviv, Israel [formerly : Deputy Coordinator of government activities in the Wet Bank and Gaza ; Head of IDF Liaison unit/peace-keeping operations ; Head of the Israeli delegation of the  monitoring group in Lebanon]
*Office:  ECF, 4 Hashalom Rd., Tel Aviv 67892 Israel, Tel. : (++972-3) 561-4422, Fax : (++972-3) 561-8040, E-mail : ecf@ecf.org.il

Prof. László Valki, Professor of International Law, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; Director, NATO Information and Research Center, Eötvös University [formerly: Secretary General, Hungarian Society of Foreign Affairs]
Office: Eötvös University, Egyetem tér 1-3, 1364 Budapest, P.O.B. 109, Hungary, Tel.: (++36-1) 411-6532, Fax: (++36-1) 266-3103, E-mail: valki@ajk.elte.hu
*Home: Tel/Fax (++36-1) 33 55 047, E-mail:
valki@axelero.hu

Staff:

Pugwash Rome Office: Claudia Vaughn, Pugwash Conferences, via della Lungara 10, I-00165 Rome, Italy, Tel. (++39-06) 687-2606, Fax (++39-06) 687-8376, Mobile: (++39-333) 456-6661, E-mail: pugwash@iol.it