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53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs
Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics

53rd Pugwash Conference on Science & World Affairs

Halifax and Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada
17-21 July 2003


Schedule

MONDAY, 14 JULY 2003

Afternoon

Arrival of ISYP Board and some ISYP members
[PICKUP AT AIRPORT, REGISTRATION]
19:00-22:00 ISYP Board Meeting (McCain Bldg, 2nd floor)

TUESDAY, 15 JULY 2003
All day Arrival of Pugwash Council (PC) members
and International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP)
[PICKUP AT AIRPORT AND REGISTRATION]
14:30-17:30 ISYP Symposium "The Role of the UN after the Iraqi Crisis"
(Students Union Building)
18:00-19:30 Dinner (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)
19:30-21:00 ISYP Working Groups A and B (Students Union Bldg)
21:00-23:00 ISYP Social Event

WEDNESDAY, 16 JULY 2003

All day Arrival of some Conference participants
[PICKUP AT AIRPORT AND REGISTRATION]
09:00 – 12:30 PC Meeting (University Hall) - ISYP Conference (Students Union Bldg)
12:30-14:00 Lunch (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)
14:30– 17:30 PC Meeting - ISYP Conference
18:00-19:30 Dinner (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)

THURSDAY, 17 JULY 2003
AM Remaining participants arrive
[PICKUP AT AIRPORT AND REGISTRATION]
09:00 – 11:30 PC Meeting - ISYP Pugwash Conference (University Hall)
11:30 – 12:30 PC members meet with ISYP Pugwash (University Hall)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)
14:30– 15:30 PLENARY SESSION 1 [Closed]
(McCain Building, Scotiabank Auditorium)
Chair: Senator Douglas Roche, O.C.
Welcoming address by Chair of Canadian Pugwash
Senator Douglas Roche, O.C.
Report of Pugwash Secretary General
Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:00 PLENARY SESSION 2 [Open]
Chair: President M.S. Swaminathan
Keynote Speaker: Hon. Susan Whelan, Minister of International Cooperation
18:00 – 19:00 Reception: City of Halifax - City Hall [SHUTTLE BUS]
Remarks: Mayor Peter Kelly
Response: Sec.-Gen. Paolo Cotta Ramusino
19:00 – 20:30 Dinner (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)

FRIDAY, 18 JULY 2003

09:00 – 12:30 Working Groups meet (McCain Building) (break 10:30-11:00)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)
14:30– 18:00 Working Groups meet (break 16:00-16:30)
19:00– 20:30 Dinner (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)
20:00-22:00 PUBLIC FORUM (Ondajtee Auditorium) [Open]
Chair: Prof. Marie Muller
Speaker: Sir Joseph Rotblat (UK)

SATURDAY, 19 JULY 2003
9:00 – 12:30 Working Groups meet (break 10:30-11:00) (McCain Bldg, 2nd floor)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)
14:00 – 15:30 PLENARY SESSION 3 [Open]
Chair: Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell
Human Security and the Middle East
Speakers: Galia Golan (Israel), Riad Malki (Palestine)
                Saideh Lotfian (Iran), Mohamed Kady Said (Egypt)
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 18:00 PLENARY SESSION 4 [Open]
Chair: Secretary-General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
Eliminating the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Speakers: Miguel Marin-Bosch (Mexico),
                Pavel Podvig (Russia), Pan Zhenqiang (China),
                John Holdren (USA)
18:00 – 19:00 Council meets representatives of National Pugwash Groups
(McCain Bldg., Scotiabank Auditorium)
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner (Shirreff Hall)
20:00-21:30 Meeting of Canadian Pugwash Group (Scotiabank Auditorium)
09:30-16:00 All day excursion for accompanying persons
(Peggy's Cove and Lunenberg)

SUNDAY, 20 JULY 2003
08:00 Departure for the excursion to the village of Pugwash
(from designated bus stops)
10:00 – 10:30 Reception
Welcoming address by Patrick Boyer, Chair Pugwash Parks Commission
Pugwash: past and present history, comments by Sir Joseph Rotblat, Ruth Adams
11:30 – 12:30 Tours of Thinkers' Lodge
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Pugwash District High School & Joseph Rotblat Hall)
13:30-14:30 Free time
14:30-16:15 PLENARY SESSION 5 [Open] (Pugwash District High School)
Chair: Prof. Saideh Lotfian
Cooperative Security and the Future of Multinational Institutions
Speakers:   Robert Lawson (Canada), Andy Mack (Australia),
                  Vladimir Baranovski (Russia), Steven Miller (USA)
16:30 – 17:30 Closing Reception (Thinkers' Lodge)
17:30 Departure by bus for dinner at Truro (enroute to Halifax)
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner at Truro
20:00 Departure for Halifax

MONDAY, 21 JULY 2003
09:00 – 10:30

PLENARY SESSION 6 [Closed]
Chair: Prof. Anne McLaren (UK)
Reports on Working Groups 1, 2, 3
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:15

PLENARY SESSION 7 [Open]
Chair: Senator Douglas Roche O.C.
Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture by Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala, former U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs
(Sri Lanka)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (Dalhousie, Shirreff Hall)
14:00 – 15:30

PLENARY SESSION 8 [Closed]
Chair: Dr. Adele Buckley
Reports on Working Groups 4, 5, 6
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 18:00 PLENARY SESSION 9 [Open]
Chair: Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
Presidential Lecture: M.S. Swaminathan
Final remarks: Secretary-General Cotta-Ramusino;
                      Executive Director Boutwell
18:30 – 21:30 Closing Festivities (University Club)
Reception
Downeast Entertainment: Background music all evening
Closing Banquet - M.C.: Dr. Adele Buckley
Speaker: Hon. Cecil Clarke, Minister, Economic Development, Nova Scotia
Presentation of the "Order of Good Times" - a unique souvenir
Downeast Entertainment: Half hour performance - fiddles, dancing and bagpipes

TUESDAY, 22 JULY 2003

AM AM Participants depart
[ALL DAY: BUS TRANSPORT TO AIRPORT]
09:00 – 12:30 PC Meeting (University Hall)
12:30-13:30 Lunch for Council members and invited guests (University Club)
PM Council members depart