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The 56th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs

A Region in Transition: Peace and Reform in the Middle East
11-15 November 2006, Cairo, Egypt
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Papers List

BD = Background document, not written specifically for our conference
ISYP = paper to be presented at the International Student/Young Pugwash Conference, 9-10 Nov. 2006, Cairo

Working Group 1 - Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament

  1. The nuclear non- proliferation after North Korea's nuclear test by Nasser Saghafi-Ameri
  2. Immediate need for a universal  verifiable regulatory regime to manage the nuclear energy renaissance by Adele Buckley, Canadian Pugwash Group
  3. Prospects for Nuclear Energy in Europe byBob van der Zwaana
  4. Accepting Nuclear Power Generation and Preventing Nuclear Proliferation by Adele Buckley, Canadian Pugwash Group
  5. NGO Presentation to UN General Assembly First Committee by Datan/Greenpeace
  6. Some aspects of  nuclear disarmament & horizontal proliferation by CHINA & PAKISTAN by Ashok Parthasarathi
  7. The twin risks of nuclear weapon proliferation and nuclear terrorism by Francesco Calogero
  8. Paper presented at the 2006 ISYP Conference, 9-10 November 2006, Cairo, Egypt by S¸ebnem Udum
  9. Current Trends in Nuclear Weapon Projects by Fernando de Souza-Barros – Emeritus Professor – Instituto de Física - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil 

Working Group 2 - WMD in the Middle East and the establishment of WMDs' free zone(s)

  1. Middle East WMD Free Zone: Progress and Probabilities by Mohammed Al Sharaa (Iraq)
  2. A place for Talks: Proposal for a Breakthrough Regarding the Establishment of a WMD-Free-Zone in the Middle East by Takaya Suto and Wakana Mukai (Japan)
  3. Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: Conditions for Disarmament by Merav Datan (USA)
  4. Attitudes of Near- and Middle-East Countries to WMD Disarmament and Arms Control by Jiri Matousek (Czech Republic)
  5. Comment – The De-Nuclearisation of Israel and Some Steps Forward in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Pugwash in the Middle East by Hans Tolhoek and Arthur Petersen (Netherlands)

Working Group 3 - Prospects for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

  1. Prospects for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process (work in progress) by David Harries (Canada)
  2. Comment – The De-Nuclearisation of Israel and Some Steps Forward in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Pugwash in the Middle East by Hans Tolhoek and Arthur Petersen (Netherlands)

Working Group 4 - Islam and the West

  1. Islam and the West: The Sacred Realm: Domain of New Threats and Challenges by Bas de Gaay Fortman (Netherlands)
  2. The Prospect of Building a "Culture of Peace" based upon International Dialogue by Yushiko Kurita (Japan)
  3. Globalization and Fundamental Terrorism: Two of a coin in the modern world (BD) by ISYP Maryam Javanshahraki (Iran)

Working Group 5 - Governance, Democracy and Reforms in the Middle East

  1. Iraq: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A recipe for reform by Omar Rashad (Iraq)

Working Group 6 - Non-military threats to Security

  1. A Proposed Transdisciplinary GIS Framework for Health Hazards in the Context of Land-Use (344.1 KB pdf) by Inas E. Ezz, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, Egypt and Brunel University, UK, German University in Cairo (GUC)

International Student/Young Pugwash