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INES Congress 2000

''Challenges for Science and Engineering in the 21st Century''

Stockholm, 14-18 June 2000

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CONTENTS of WNII No. 16/2000

• Member Organisations' and Project Groups' News:
  • USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 38, July 2000
  • UPDATE: Triennial Meeting of the International Peace Bureau (IPB)
• Briefings:
  • European mailinglist on arms trade
  • UNIDIR "disarmament forum" two/2000
  • Federation of American Scientists urging President Clinton to abandon the National Missile Defense system
• Conferences, Meetings, Seminars
  • Sixth Systems Science European School
  • KnowRight 2000 - InfoEthics Europe
  • Privacy2000: Information and Security in the Digital Age
• INES Web- and Email Service

MEMBER ORGANISATIONS' AND PROJECT GROUPS' NEWS

USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 38,  July 2000 
Back issues: http://www.wagingpeace.org/sf/index.html

The July issue of The Sunflower covers the following:  

• Nuclear Disarmament:
  • Appeal to End the Nuclear Weapons Threat to Humanity
  • Pakistan Calls for "Strategic Self-Restraint"
  • US-Russia Reach Early Warning Agreement   
• Nuclear Matters:
  • Russian Uranium Shipments Cleared
  • Russia to continue subcritical testing on Novaya Zemlya in 2000  
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems:
  • National Missile Defense System Test  Scheduled for 7 July
  • Broad Interpretations Permit Missile Shield
  • China Warns of New Arms Race
  • Rogues No More  
• Action Alert: 
  • Write a letter to your head of government or elected official and urge  them to tell President Clinton to permanently halt development on the  national missile defense system.  Sample letters are available at the Abolition 2000 website at:   http://www.abolition2000.org .   Speak up for your children's future. If you are a US citizen, visit:  http://www.DontBlowIt.org   and send a message to your elected official telling them your want  nuclear disarmament now.
• Nuclear Insanity  
• Resources:
  • The US General Accounting Office released a new report, "Status of  the Missile Defense Program" on May 31, 2000, which is available at:  http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns00131.pdf 
  • Detailed and daily information about anti-militarism and conscientious objection in Turkey:   http://www.savaskarsitlari.org
  • "Collective Security: A New Role for Britain" proposes ways in which  Britain can play a powerful international role in bringing about greater collective security. To order copies of the report for £5.00/$8.00 USD, contact Oxford Research Group at:  
  • The WTO and the Global War System printed proceedings now available at:   http://www.indg.org/wto_proceedings.pdf
  • "Bombing Bombay ?: Effects of Nuclear Weapons and a case study of a hypothetical explosion" a report by MV Ramana (well known Indian Nuclear Scientist & peace activist) is now available at:  http://www.ippnw.org/bombay.pdf  
  • The Reaching Critical Will final NPT News in Review is now available at:    http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/newsinreview/NIR_Index.html

UPDATE: Triennial Meeting of the International Peace Bureau (IPB)  

• Date: 12-15 October 2000 
• Venue: Nanterre Town Hall, Paris  
• New title: The Globalization of Peace/Mondialisons la Paix!   
• Key themes: 
  • a. Cultures of Peace 
  • b. Lay down your Arms  
  • c. Globalisation and War 
• Summary Programme: 
  • Thurs pm: opening plenary, workshops 
  • Thurs eve: opening of peace art exhibit, reception, music evening  
  • Fri am: plenary, workshops 
  • Fri pm: plenary, Award of MacBride Peace Prize  
  • Fri eve : free in Paris 
  • Sat am: workshops, plenary 
  • Sat pm: youth sports event, IPB Assembly (part 1) 
  • Sat eve: cultural evening 
  • Sun am: IPB Assembly (part 2)   There will be English-French interpretation in plenaries and hopefully all workshops.  

This conference is a major follow up event to the Hague Appeal for Peace (May 1999) and also a contribution to the International Year for the Culture of Peace.   Suggestions for speakers, interpreters, cultural presentations etc are welcome, but please be aware that the conference budget is a limited  one.  
Local contact in Paris: Anick Sicart (Appel des Cent pour la Paix): 
For regular updates consult the IPB website:  http://www.ipb.org   

INES is an IPB member organisation. Founded in 1899, IPB is the oldest and the most comprehensive of the international peace federations -  covering issues ranging from nuclear weapons and small arms to conflict  resolution and peace education.

BRIEFINGS

European mailinglist on arms trade   

The European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) agreed at its last meeting in Tampere to create an ENAAT mailing list to inform each other about arms trade news important for other groups (in the network) as well.   The list has been in existence for a few months now. So far, information on arms policies of Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, the European Parliament  and Commission and arms trade information on India, Pakistan and  Indonesia has been published on the list. However, the list organisers are most interested in widening information by, for example, sharing  news about policies, view-points and arms trade facts from other countries, as well; and it can be a way of learning about the best  practices for lobbying, PR and other activities improving arms trade regulations.   Subscription info:   Subscribe by email (no message needed):   ,   Subscribe by the web:  http://www.egroups.com/group/ENAAT

UNIDIR "disarmament forum" two/2000  

"Small Arms Control: the need for coordination" is the main subject of  "disarmament forum" two/2000 which is published by the UN Institute for Disarmament Research. It consists of the following articles:

• Negotiating Small Arms Restraint: The Boldest Frontier for Disarmament? (A. Karp)  
• Working Where it Hurts: Perspectives from the Field on Small Arms  Demand (D. Atwood & D. Jackman)  
• United Nations Contributions to the Process (D. Biggs)  
• The 2001 Conference Breaking Out the Arms Control Framework (Ch.  Smith)  
• National Policies and Regional Agreements on Arms Exports (I. Anthony)  
• The Ottawa Process: Nine-Day Wonder or a New Model for Disarmament Negotiations? (M. Bleicher)  
• Examining the Discourse on Nuclear Weapons (R. Ghafele Bashi)
• Light Weapons Bibliography and Resource List (J. Margolin)   

Articles are published in English and French.   For a copy, contact:   

Federation of American Scientists urging President Clinton to  abandon the National Missile Defense system  

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) have issued a letter to US  President Clinton urging that the National Missile Defence system be  abandoned. They state, among other things:   "We and other independent scientists have long argued that   anti-ballistic missile systems, particularly those attempting to intercept re-entry vehicles in space, will inevitably lose in an arms  race of improvements to offensive missiles."   Furthermore, the letter states:   "It would be difficult to persuade Russia or China that the United States is wasting tens of billions of dollars on an ineffective missile system against small states that are unlikely to launch a missile attack on the US.  The Russians and Chinese must therefore conclude that the presently  planned system is a stage in developing a bigger system directed against  them.  They may respond by restarting an arms race in ballistic missiles and having missiles in a dangerous "launch-on-warning" mode."   For the letter in full, contact FAS:    

CONFERENCES - MEETINGS - SEMINARS

Sixth Systems Science European School  

• The subject of the school is:   Systemics to understand and to Decide in complex contexts: Cognitive  science, education, environment, ethics, human-machines interfaces,  knowledge representation, management, science of complexity, systemic methodologies  
• Date: 21-25 August 2000 
• Venue: Castle Ivano, Strigno (Trento), Italy  

A first brochure on the 6th Systems Science European School is available from:   Prof. Gianfranco Minati, President of the Italian Association for  Research on Systems (AIRS): 

KnowRight 2000 - InfoEthics Europe   

• Date: 26-29 September 2000 
• Venue: Vienna, Austria 

Organized by the Austrian Computer Society and UNESCO   For more details:   http://www.ocg.at/KR-IE2000.html

Privacy2000: Information and Security in the Digital Age  

• Date: 31 October-1 November 2000 
• Venue: Columbus/Ohio, USA  

For more details,  http://www.privacy2000.org

INES WEB AND E-MAIL SERVICE

No new or changed email or web addresses in this issue.   All INES e-mail addresses and homepages are available upon request from:  

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