Regional Conflict & Global Security
Reports & Statements
South Asia | East Asia | Middle East and Persian Gulf
South Asia [back to top]
Rebooting India-Pakistan Relations, Opinion piece in The Hindu, 23 May 2010
Composite Report of Pugwash Consultations on Pakistan, June - October 2009
(March 2010)
Pugwash Meeting on "Prospects for Restarting India-Pakistan Dialogue"
Islamabad, Pakistan, 5-6 March 2009
– Participant List
– Report
Pakistan Caught Off-Guard, But Feels the Ice Has Melted, June 18, 2009
Editorial: Dialogue with India: Old or New? Daily Times (Pakistan), June 17, 2009
PM Urges World Community to Fulfill Pledges to Assist Pakistan, June 15, 2009
Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Pugwash Delegation Meet with
Pakistan Prime Minister Raza Gilani to Discuss Security in South Asia, June 15, 2009
Pugwash meet to focus on aspects of Pak-US ties by Hameed Shaheen, June 15, 2009
Pakistan's Refugee Crisis, by Sherry Rehman, former Federal Information Minister,
Pakistan, The News, 21 May 2009
Kashmir's failed uprising, by Happymon Jacob (The Hindu), 25 October 2008
Exploring the Potential for Economic Development and Cross-LoC Collaboration in Jammu
Kashmir: Volume 5, Number 1 (Adobe PDF format), July 2007
Pugwash Workshop on Intra-Kashmir Economic Cooperation
15-16 March 2008, Columbo, Sri Lanka
– Agenda
– Participant List
– Report by Moeed Yusuf
Pugwash Workshop on Prospects for Self-Governance in Jammu and Kashmir: Building
Institutions for Peace in J&K, and Improving Cooperation and Communication across the LoC
22-24 July 2007, Columbo, Sri Lanka
– Participant List
– Report by Claire Galez
Kashmiri Water: Good Enough for Peace?, by Erin Blankenship
South Asia Needs a Bomb-less Deal, by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Published in Economic and
Political Weekly (India) and The Friday Times (Pakistan), week of 17 April, 2006
Pugwash Workshop on Prospects for Self-Governance in Jammu and Kashmir, and the Present
Status of Cooperation and Communication across the Line of Control, 10-12 March 2006,
Islamabad, Pakistan, including a meeting of conference participants with Pakistan President
Pervez Musharraf
– Remarks by Farooq Kathwari
– Report by Claire Galez
2nd Pugwash Workshop on the Kashmir Dispute, held in Srinagar, Kashmir, on 23 April 2005:
Report from the Daily Times (24 April 2005)
– Kashmir Times story, 24 April 2005
– Chronology of Negotiations and CBMs between India and Pakistan
Pugwash Meeting no. 303
– Press Release: "Jammu and Kashmir and the India-Pakistan Dialogue:
The Prospects Ahead"; (11-14 December 2004)
– Final Participants List; (15 December 2004)
Pugwash Consultation on South Asian Security (September 2004, Islamabad, Pakistan)
2nd Pugwash Workshop on South Asian Security (16-18 May 2003, Geneva, Switzerland)
Avoiding an India-Pakistan Nuclear Confrontation (11-12 March 2003, Lahore, Pakistan)
1st Pugwash Workshop on South Asian Security (Geneva, Switzerland, 1-3 November 2002)
East Asia [back to top]
Statement of the Pugwash Council: Strengthening the NPT after the DPRK nuclear test
(86.1 KB pdf)
4th Pugwash Workshop on Stability, Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia
12 - 15 January 2006, Beijing, China
Pugwash Delegation to North Korea (17-20 April 2004, North Korea)
3rd Pugwash Workshop on East Asian Security (April 2004, Beijing, China)
2nd Pugwash Workshop on East Asian Security (7-9 March 2002, Beijing, China)
1st Pugwash Workshop on East Asian Security (3-6 April 2001, Seoul, South Korea)
Middle East and Persian Gulf [back to top]
Pugwash Consultation on Middle East Security, London, UK, 26 July 2009
Bringing Iran into the nuclear family, by Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, 17 March 2009
West Urged to Seize Opportunity to Improve Iran Relations, IRNA,
Tehran, 18 March 2009
Crisis in Gaza: Pugwash Council Statement (also in Arabic - 72.3 KB pdf);
commentary (also in Arabic - 80.3 KB pdf) by Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Jayantha
Dhanapala; and commentary (also in Arabic - 198.3 KB pdf) by Paolo Cotta-Ramusino.
(9 January 2009)
International Workshop: "A Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone,"
Co-sponsored by the Pugwash Conferences and the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, London, UK, 16-17 June 2008.
Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala Visits London: British Pugwash and SOAS
Co-Host Public Events on Disarmament and a Possible WMDFZ in the Middle East,
Report by Poul-Erik Christiansen, CISD, SOAS and Sandra Ionno Butcher, London
Pugwash Office
Transcript of the 3rd London Conference on the Middle East WMD Free Zone as a pdf
Transcript of Jayantha Dhanapala's Keynote Address, "The Urgency of Disarmament"
as a pdf
The Urgency of Disarmament, a video of Jayantha Dhanapala's Keynote Speech
Islam, Conflicts, Peace Mediation, 27-29 January, 2008, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
Report by Mikhail Lebedev
Pugwash Workshop on The Prospects for Iraq, 11-13 May 2007, Erbil, Iraq
Escalation in the Middle East: a lasting damage to peace and democracy by Paolo
Cotta-Ramusino in English (80.9 KB pdf) and Arabic (204 KB pdf)
Statement of the Pugwash Council: The Middle East Conflict in English (10.7 KB pdf)
and Arabic (174 KB) 21 July 2006
Iran's Nuclear Energy Program: Policies and Prospects, 25 April 2006, Tehran, Iran;
a Joint Conference of the Pugwash Conferences and the Center for Strategic
Research, Tehran
Consortium of Research Institutes' Project on Regional Co-operation
and Security in the Middle East and North Africa, 12 July 2005
Pugwash participates in International Conference on Nuclear Technology
and Sustainable Development (5-6 March 2005, Tehran, Iran)
Letter from Paolo Cotta-Ramusino to the Palestinian Authority on the death
of Yasser Arafat (14 November 2004)
Pugwash Meeting no. 296-2: 12th Pugwash Workshop on the Middle East
Prospects for a WMD-free Zone (23 July 2004, New York, NY)
12th Pugwash Workshop on the Middle East (23 June 2004, Washington DC)
11th Pugwash Workshop on the Middle East (4-7 March 2004, Amman, Jordan)
10th Pugwash Workshop on the Middle East (6-8 September 2003, Tehran, Iran)
9th Pugwash Workshop on the Middle East (30 May-1 June 2003, Amman, Jordan)
7th Pugwash Workshop on the Middle East (26-29 April 2001, Alexandria, Egypt)
6th Pugwash Workshop on the Middle East (18-21 February 1999, Tynningö, Sweden)
Intervention, Sovereignty and International Security [back to top]
The Future of Conventional Arms Control in Europe, edited by Wolfgang Zellner, Hans-
Joachim Schmidt and Gotz Neuneck, 2009
4th Pugwash Workshop on Intervention and Sovereignty: a Joint Consultation with the
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
(20-21 July 2001, Pugwash, Nova Scotia)
3rd Pugwash Workshop on Intervention and Sovereignty (4-6 May 2001, Castellón de la Plana, Spain)
2nd Pugwash Workshop on Intervention and Sovereignty (28-30 September 2000, Como, Italy)
1st Pugwash Workshop on Intervention and Sovereignty (10-11 December 1999, Venice, Italy)
Other Regional Conflict Reports [back to top]
Pugwash Workshop on Security Architecture in the Horn of Africa (17-19 March 2006, Nairobi,
Kenya)
NATO and European Security (2-4 July 1999, Castellón de la Plana, Spain)
Human Security in the Southern African Context (7-10 June 1998, Halfway House, South Africa)
NATO Enlargement and Pugwash a commentary by George Rathjens, Secretary General, (31
March 1998)
