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The 58th Pugwash Conference
Justice, Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The Hague, The Netherlands,


17-20 April 2009

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Participant List


Dr. Sadek Abdelaal, Pediatrician, Cairo University, Egypt; Secretary General Egyptian Pugwash

Mrs. Samiha Abo El Foutuoh, Egyptian Pugwash member, Cairo, Egypt

Gen. (ret.) Mansour Abu Rashid, Chairman, Amman Center for Peace and Development (ACPD), Amman, Jordan

Amb. (ret.) Ochieng Adala, Member, Pugwash Council; Deputy Executive Director, Africa Peace Forum (APFO), Nairobi, Kenya

Dr. Athem Alsabti, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of London Observatory; International Relations Officer for the Iraqi Academy of Science

Amb. Wa’el N. Al-Assad, Director, Disarmament & Multilateral Relations Department, League of Arab States, Cairo, Egypt

Mr. Mohammed Al Mahruqy, Member of the State Council; Member of the Consultative Commission to the Supreme Council of Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC)

Mr. Mohammed Jawad Al Sharaa, Director General, Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate, Baghdad

Prof. Arjuna Aluwihare, Chairman, Pugwash Sri Lanka; Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Prof. John Avery, Associate Professor Emeritus, H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Chairman, Danish National Pugwash Group; Chairman, Danish Peace Academy

Dr. Ibrahim Bahr Alolom, former Minister of Oil, Baghdad, Iraq

Dr. Tariq Banuri, Director, Division for Sustainable Development Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UN

Hon. Shukria Barakzai, Member of Wolesi Jirga (Parliament), Kabul, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Prof. Gabriel Baramki, Partner, Alternative Ways Educational Consulting Service; President, Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace

Mrs. Haifa’ Baramki, Management & Training Consultant, Ramallah, Palestine; Vice-President of the YWCA of Palestine

Ms. Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Foreign Policy Adviser on Middle Eastern Affairs, London, UK

Dr. Kayhan Barzegar, Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Assistant Professor of International Relations, Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University

Amb. Sergey Batsanov, Director, Pugwash Geneva Office; Member, Pugwash Council; Member, International Advisory Board, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Sir Hugh William Beach, Board Member of VERTIC and ISIS, London, UK

Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell, Executive Director, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Washington, DC, USA; Member, Pugwash Council

Dr. Adele Buckley, Member, Pugwash Council; Treasurer (and past-Chair), Canadian Pugwash Group Executive Committee; Leader, Global Issues Project Expert Roundtable on Water Issues

Mr. Martin Butcher, Global Security Consultant, UK

Prof. Francesco Calogero, Member, Pugwash Council; Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Member, Pugwash Executive Committee; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy

Prof. Suranjan Das, Vice-Chancellor, University of Calcutta, India; Member, Indian Council of Historical Research, Government of India

Dr. Marco De Andreis, Director, Economic and Fiscal Studies, Italy's Customs Agency

Mr. Liangchun (Alfred) Deng, Policy Program Manager, The Climate Group, China

Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri Lanka), President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Member, UN University Council, SIPRI Governing Board

Prof. Nola Dippenaar, Health Consultant (Health Insight), Pretoria, South Africa; Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, School of Medicine; Chair of SA National Pugwash Group

Prof. Walter Dorn, Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Security Studies, Canadian Forces College, Toronto; The Royal Military College of Canada, Ontario

Dr. Lynn Eden, Member, Pugwash Council; Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, USA, Co-Chair U.S. Pugwash

Ms. Tagreed El-Khodary, NY Times journalist in Gaza

Dr. Eltayeb Ahmed Eltayeb Ali, Senior Researcher, Radiobiology Research Group, Institute of Radiobiology, Sudan Atomic Energy Commission, Khartoum

Dr. Nihal Fahmy, Adjunct Professor, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Mrs. Maha Fattah-Hassan, Writer & Analyst, and Senior Columnist & Writer, Akhbar el Yom Newspapers, Cairo, Egypt; Member, Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Eric T. Ferguson, Pugwash Netherlands; Consultant on Energy and Development, MacFergus bv, Zeist, Netherlands

Prof. John Finney, Professor of Physics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK

Prof. Georg Frerks, Professor of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management, Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Professor of Disaster Studies, Wageningen University; Chairman, Pugwash Nederland

Ms. Claire Galez (Belgium), Director, Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Narsi Ghorban, Managing Director, Narkangan Gas to Liquid International Company; Director, International Institute for Caspian Studies, Tehran, Iran; Vice Chairman, Azar Energy

Prof. Subrata Ghoshroy, Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, USA

Prof. Alexander Ginzburg, Member, Russian Pugwash Committee; Deputy Director, A.M. Oboukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Galia Golan-Gild PhD, Professor of Government, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel; Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Justice Richard Goldstone, Retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; Spinoza Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, The Hague

Dr. Berma Klein Goldewijk, Vice-chair and Secretary of the Board, Pugwash Netherlands Group; Senior Lecturer, Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Founding Director, Cedar International

Mr. Efraim Halevi

Prof. Karen Hallberg, Member, Pugwash Council; Professor of Physics, Balseiro Institute, Bariloche, Argentina; Research Fellow, National Council of Science and Technology, Centro Atomico Bariloche

Mrs. Anissa Hassouna, Director General, Egypt’s International Economic Forum; Treasurer, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA), Cairo, Egypt; Treasurer, Egyptian Pugwash

Prof. Robert Hinde, former Royal Society Research Professor

Mrs. Sandra Ionno Butcher, Director, Pugwash History Project, Joint Executive Secretary, British Pugwash Group 

Mr. Jeremy Issacharoff (Israel), Deputy Ambassador to the United States, Washington, DC

Mr. Happymon Jacob, Assistant Professor in Diplomatic Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Dr. Rebecca E. Johnson, Executive Director, The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, London, UK

Dr. Peter Jones, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada

Dr. Venance Journé, Researcher, National Scientific Research Council (CNRS), Paris, France

Dr. Victor Kamyshanov, President, International Federation for Peace and Conciliation, Moscow, Russia

Dr. Kang Jungmin, Visiting Scholar, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, CA

Mr. Kang Mun Ryol, Korean National Peace Committee (KNPC), Pyongyang City, DPR Korea

Dr. Sergey Kapitza, Moscow, Russia

Amb. Aziz Ahmad Khan, retired Ambassador, Islamabad, Pakistan

Mr. Mohammad Humayun Khan, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan

Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu, Associate Professor of Non-Proliferation, Arms Control & Disarmament, Bilkent University, Turkey

Prof. Byung-Koo Kim, Professor, Konyang University, Chungnam, Korea

Mr. Kim Il Bong, Korean National Peace Committee (KNPC), Pyongyang City, DPR Korea

Prof. Dr. Janusz Komender, Chairman of Polish National Committee of Pugwash, Warsaw, Poland

Prof. Michiji Konuma, Professor Emeritus, Keio University; Professor Emeritus, Musashi Institute of Technology, Yokohama; Founding Member, Pugwash Japan; Advisor, International Student/Young Pugwash

Mr. Edy Korthals, Altes, The Hague, The Netherlands

Dr. Karel Koster, Research Department, Socialist Party Netherlands; Board Member, IPPNW Netherlands

Dr. Georges Le Guelte, Paris, France

Dr. Francesco Lenci, recently (now retired) Research Director and Research Associate, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy; Member (Elected), CNR General Scientific Counci 

Mr. Daniel Levy

Mr. Sverre Lodgaard, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Sweden

Prof. Saideh Lotfian, Member, Pugwash Council; Associate Professor of Political Science, and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Iran 

Mr. Arnold Luethold, Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Allison Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, George Mason University, Dept of Environmental Science and Policy, USA

Dr. Ram Manikkalingam, Dialogue Advisory Group & Visiting Professor, Political Science Dept., University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Amb .Miguel Marin-Bosch, Director, Mexico’s Diplomatic Academy, Mexico D.F.; Member, Pugwash Council

Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Talat Masood, Independent Columnist, Commentator and Analyst, Islamabad, Pakistan

Prof. Jiri Matousek, Professor of Toxicology, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, EU Research Centre of Excellence for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Brno, Czech Republic; Member Czech Pugwash

Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Professor of International Relations and Member, National Knowledge Commission, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Dr. Lawrence McCray, Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Prof. Alan H. McGowan, Chair, Science, Technology and Society Program, Eugene Lang College, New School University, New York, NY, USA; Chair, Student Pugwash USA

Amb. Arend Meerburg, Member, Pugwash Netherlands; Member, Group on Global Security and of the International Panel on Fissile Materials

Dr. Oliver Meier, Research Fellow, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg, Germany; International Representative and Correspondent, Arms Control Association, Berlin

Prof. David Menashri, Dean of Special Program and Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Prof. Errol Mendes, Professor of International Law, University of Ottawa, Canada

Dr. Bert Metz, Fellow, European Climate Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands

Dr. Victor Mizin, Senior Research Fellow and Professor, Moscow State University of International Relations, Russia

Mr. Michael Molloy, Co-Director, Jerusalem Old City Initiative, Department of Political Science, University of Windsor, Canada

Amb. Atilio N. Molteni, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic, Herzliya Pituach, Israel

Amb. Abdel Rahman Moussa, Consultant to the Minister for International Cooperation, Cairo, Egypt; Member, Board of Directors, Pugwash Egypt; Member, The Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs

Prof. Marie Muller, Member, Pugwash Council, and Professor of International Politics, Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Ms. Carol Naughton, Coordinator WMD Awareness Programme (WMD AP), London, UK; Senior Associate 

Prof. Dr. Götz Neuneck, Physicist, and Member, Pugwash Council; Deputy Director and Head of the “Interdisciplinary Research Group Disarmament, Arms Control and New Technologies”, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Germany

Mr. Nguyen Van Huynh, Member of the Executive Board, Vietnam Peace and Development Foundation, Hanoi

Dr. Alexander Nikitin (Russia), Member, Pugwash Council; Director, Center for Political and International Studies (CPIS), Moscow; Vice-Chairman, Russian Pugwash Committee

Prof. Hans Opschoor, Pugwash Group Netherlands; Professor of Environmental Economics, Free University Amsterdam; Member, UN Committee for Development Policy

Mr. Niu Qiang, Secretary General, Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament (CPAPD), Beijing, China

Prof. Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; Co-Director, Political Economy and Technology Policy Program, MIT

Mr. Paek Yang Ho, Korean National Peace Committee (KNPC), Pyongyang City, DPR Korea

Gen. Pan Zhenqiang (China), Member, Pugwash Executive Committee and Council; Deputy-Chairman, China Foundation for International Studies; and Senior Advisor, China Reform Forum

Dr. Georges Parisot, Chair, French Pugwash Group, Paris, France

Mr. Trita Parsi, author and Middle East expert; Co-founder and current President, National Iranian American Council 

Amb. Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India

Prof. Arthur Petersen, Senior Policy Analyst and Director, Methodology & Modeling Program, Netherlands; Treasurer, Pugwash Netherlands

Dr. Joelien Pretorius, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, University of Western Cape, Belville, South Africa

Mr.. Mouin Rabbani, Senior Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies, Amman, Jordan; Senior Associate, FAFO; Contributing Editor, Middle East Report

Prof .Eliezer Rabinovici, Director, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 

Mr. Rahmatullah Rahmat, Political Affairs Officer, UNAMA HQ, Kabul, Afghanistan

Prof. J. Martin Ramirez, MD, JD, PhD, Head, UCM Research Group on Aggression, Psychobiology Department & Institute for Biofunctional Studies, Universidad Complutense Madrid

Mr. Abul Ahrar Ramizpoor, Human Rights Officer, United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA), and Lecturer, Sharia Faculty, Kabul University

Ms. Robin Raphel, Senior Vice President, Cassidy & Associates, Washington DC, USA

Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga, Consultant on Internet Website development, Sri Lanka; President Astronomical Association of Lanka, SPOC – Sri Lanka – International Year of Astronomy 2009

Mr. Ernie Regehr, Senior Policy Advisor, Project Ploughshares, Canada

Hon. Sherry Rehman, former Federal Information Minister, Islamabad, Pakistan

Dr. Erzsébet N. Rózsa, Senior Researcher, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA), Budapest, Hungary

Mr. Nasser Saghafi-Ameri, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and International Relations Department (FPIRD), Center for Strategic Research, Tehran, Iran

Amb. Svein Sevje, Ambassador/Special Envoy for the Middle East, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Amb. Najmuddin Shaikh, retired Pakistan Foreign Service Officer; Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad; Senior Vice President, Karachi Council of Foreign Relations

Amb. Mohamed Shaker, Chairman, Egyptian Pugwash Group, and Vice Chairman, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA), Cairo

Dr. Jill Shankleman, Director, JSL Consulting, Oxford, UK; Senior Social Specialist, FMO, The Hague

Mr. Samir Shawa, Chairman, Alhani Cultural Foundation, Gaza City, Palestine; Member of the Board, Palestinian Monetary Authority

Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons, President, The Simons Foundation, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Senior Fellow, WOSK Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University

Acad. Alexey Sissakian, Director, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia; Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Ivo Slaus, Member, Pugwash Council; Director, World Academy for Southeast Europe Division; President, Croatian Pugwash; Member, Club of Rome; Fellow, Academia Europea

Ms. Hilde Solbakken, Senior Advisor, Section for Peace and Reconciliation, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo

Advocate Ahmer Bilal Soofi, President, Research Society of International Law, Lahore; Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan; Consultant on International Law to the Government of Pakistan

Dr. Mark Byung-Moon Suh (Germany/South Korea), Member, Pugwash Council; Senior Researcher and Korea Coordinator, Free University of Berlin, Germany; President, Korean Pugwash Group

Dr. Tatsujiro Suzuki, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo; Senior Research Scientist, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo, Japan

Mr. Murray Thomson, retired peace educator and executive committee member of the Canadian Pugwash Group

Dr. Abdul Hameed Toor, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan 

Prof. Gérard Toulouse, Director of Research at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France; President, Committee for Exact and Natural Sciences; Vice Chair of Pugwash-France

Amb. Marc Vogelaar, Consultant to DG OPCW for promotion of CWC universality, The Hague, The Netherlands

Dr. Houston Wood, Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

Mr. Moeed Yusuf, Fellow, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, Boston University, USA; Research Fellow, Strategic and Economic Policy Research, Islamabad, Pakistan

Amb. Bozorgmehr (Reza) Ziaran, Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands 

Dr. Aharon Zohar, Senior Consultant on national planning to the National Planning Administration, and Head of the construction of 11 Bedouin new towns; Consultant, Regional and Environmental Planning, Carmei-Yosef, Israel 

Dr. Bob van der Zwaan, Senior Scientific Researcher, Energy research Center of The Netherlands (ECN, Amsterdam) and Columbia University

 

ISYP

1.      Almotaz Abadi, Palestine

2.      Ranieri Argentini, The Netherlands

3.      Farid Ben Amor, USA

4.      Subha Chauhan, India

5.      Poul Christensen, UK

6.      Kamal El-Itani, Lebanon

7.      Brandon Friedman, Israel

8.      Hans Christian Gils, Germany

9.      Antoinette Hildering, The Netherlands

10.   Karim Kadry, Egypt

11.   Brian Kirk, USA

12.   Petr Korzun, Russia

13.   Rian Leith, South Africa

14.   Rens de Man, The Netherlands

15.   Kate Marvel, USA

16.   Lian Merkx, The Netherlands

17.   Mary Beth Mills-Curran, USA

18.   Wakana Mukai, Japan

19.   Noam Rahamim, Israel

20.   Marjolein de Ridder, The Netherlands

21.   Mark Rosin, UK

22.   Ole Ross, Germany

23.   Benjamin Rusek, USA

24.   Katharina Suh, South Korea/Germany

25.   Xander van Tilburg, The Netherlands

26.   Sebnem Udum, Turkey

27.   Tong Zhao, China

 

OBSERVERS

Heleen de Coninck
Ron Nelson, OPCW
Sonia Drobysz
Alessandro Argentini
Mr. Sylwin Jerry Giźowski, CTBTO

 

Staff

Claudia Vaughn, Program Coordinator, Rome Pugwash Office
Dr. Giancarlo Tenaglia, voluntary Staff Member, Pugwash Italy
Sandy Ionno Butcher, British Pugwash
Mimma De Santis, Rome Pugwash Office