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The CCRPA is producing a newsletter called ''The Mediator''. The January-June 1998 issue, which is 40 pages strong, carries the following articles:

• Report on a CCRPA Workshop for the Enugu State University of Science and Technology
• CCRPA Workshop on ''Trade Unions in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities''
• CCRPA Workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Process-centered Development. Basic Human Needs: Key to Human Motivation
• Sources and Forms of Internal Conflicts in Africa
• Preventing Deadly Conflict [on the Carnegie Commission]
• Responding to Conflicts in Africa: Role and Responsibility of Civil Society
• Role of Civil Society in Conflict Prevention plus a comprehensive Calendar of Events.

http://fuj.physik.uni-dortmund.de/NaWi/

NatWis is currently concentrating on the preparation of a major German congress entitled ''Responsibility for a New Type of Sustainable Politics'' in Bonn, 16-18 October this year. This event, which is related to the outcome of the German General Elections on 27 September, is co-sponsored by six other national organisations, including trade unions. On 18 October, the Annual General Meeting of NatWis will be held.

As to the aims of the Congress, the organisers write, among other things:
'' ... We are urging a take-off into the future. Generations before us have accumulated an abundance of time, knowledge, and cultural achievement. We want to live in a society that distributes this wealth justly. We want a society that provides comprehensive participation in decision processes for everybody. We want a peaceable society where individuals settle their disputes maturely, develop their communities, respect nature, and maintain the environment and themselves in a healthy condition. We want a society that consumes less, cuts waste, uses material and energy resources responsibly. It won't happen without some major effort and some contest. Yet we are determined and able to shape a world that will hold a future both in the North and the South for us and the generations to come ...''

For more details about both the Congress and the NatWis AGM,
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!!! Abolition 2000 homepage: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/

The fourth US subcritical nuclear weapons test since July 1997 was exploded on the Nevada Test Site at 3:07 pm Pacific Standard Time on Saturday, September 26. In such tests, plutonium is blasted with explosives too weak to set off the self-sustaining nuclear reaction of an atomic explosion. The US Department of Energy says that they are prepared to conduct at least one more subcritical test before the end of the year.

In a first reaction, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Sunday condemned the test, saying the experiment will impede nuclear disarmament. Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito said the test ''trampled on the request by Nagasaki citizens and the people of the world'' not to carry it out. Takashi Hiraoka, mayor of Hiroshima, said the test ''will inevitably cause a build-up in the nuclear weapons race''.

The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper has produced a whole section on stockpile stewardship and management. It is a pretty comprehensive site with many indepth articles and comparisons:

http://sfnewmexican.symtezzi.com/

Dear friends,
The 'Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days' network is happy to announce the publications of a brochure about Citizens Inspections of Nuclear Sites. The brochure comprises lots of ideas, drawn from experience, and visions for the future, about how to organise effective inspections.
We give credit to Eirlys Rhiannon for taking lots of time to make this happen.
If you also wish to receive a hard copy, please E-mail us your snail mail address today.
Peace,
Pol D'Huyvetter
(Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days, a Working Group of Abolition 2000)
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• Background: http://www.bellona.no/e/russia/nikitin/
• Nikitin's Report: http://www.bellona.no/e/russia/nfl/index.htm

1. The Norwegian Bellona Foundation informs that St. Petersburg City Court Judge Sergei Golets will hear the espionage case against environmentalist Alexandr Nikitin beginning October 20. The announcement marks the end of three years of investigations by the FSB, the successor of the KGB. Nikitin has been charged seven times with espionage for his participation in a Bellona report detailing the unsafe nuclear waste storage practices of the Russian Northern Fleet. This is the first time Nikitin gets the opportunity to prove his innocence and that all the information in the Northern Fleet report is based on open sources.

   The Bellona Foundation is able to provide more indepth information about Nikitin, as well as about the legal procedure Nikitin is confronted with.
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2. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) urges you to send a message to Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, demanding that Nikitin is not be prosecuted for releasing information to the public on radioactive waste hazards. NAPF suggests to send this message by fax [(7-095) 206 5173], but Yeltsin can also be approached via the email address:
   

   For more about the NAPF activities re Nikitin:
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http://www.haguepeace.org

Commemorating the First Hague Conference for Peace in 1899, this major event is scheduled for 10-15 May next year. INES is among the sponsor organisations. INES Chair Prof. Tenner is dealing with the INES support concerning the Conference.

Here are some useful up-to-date information:

• There is to be a special seminar on the 1st two Hague conferences and related historical issues at the May 1999 event. Main sessions:
  • Diplomacy and politics around the Hague conferences
  • Journalism and the Hague Conferences
  • Women
  • Transnational social movements
  CONTACT: Organised by the Peace History Society. Coordinator is:
  Frances Early
• Prevention, Resolution and Transformation of Violent Conflict
  Coordinator of this part of the Conference Programme is:
  Dr. Patrick McCarthy
• The Root Causes of War. A Culture of Peace
  Coordinator of this part of the Conference Programme is:
  Megan Burke
• Youth Programme
  Coordinators are Jo Tyler and Adam Berry, c/o International Peace Bureau
  
• 2000 Walk for Nuclear Abolition
  http://www.motherearth.org/ Organised by ''For Mother Earth International'' in support of the Conference and to underline the nuclear issue, this will be a huge March from the International Court of Justice, The Hague, to NATO Headquarters, Brussels, scheduled for 16-30 May 1999. It is envisaged that at least 2,000 people should participate. Preparations are already well underway, and there are a lot of specific details available.
  Please contact For Mother Earth International Office at:
  
  Registration website:
  http://www.motherearth.org/walk99.htm

http://www.wagingpeace.org/landmine_treaty_text_oslo.html

After Burkina Faso became the fortieth nation to ratify the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty on 16 September, the treaty will now enter into force - become binding international law - on 1 March 1999 after a six month waiting period. The Mine Ban Treaty (formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and On Their Destruction) has been signed by 130 nations since last December. Among the forty ratifying thus far are not only nations that led the Mine Ban Treaty negotiations (such as Austria, Canada, Ireland, Norway and South Africa), but also nations that used to be major producers and exporters of landmines (such as France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Hungary) and nations where mines have been used most extensively (such as Bosnia, Croatia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe). Quick entry into force is vital for the crucial treaty deadlines - destruction of stockpiled mines within four years and of mines already in the ground within ten years - to go into effect.

International conference on small arms and light weapons, including an international NGO conference (on 14 Oct)

• Date: 12-14 Oct 1998
• Venue: Brussels, Belgium
• Organized by the Belgian Foreign Ministry

• Date: 13-14 Nov 1998
• Venue: Duesseldorf, Germany
• Organized by the London Court of International Arbitration

International conference which will explore the implications for the future of nuclear disarmament of the recent Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests.

• Date: 20 - 22 Nov 1998
• Venue: Stockholm (Rosenbads Conference Centre), Sweden
• Organized by the NGO Committee for Disarmament and the Swedish Peace Council
• Return registration by 1 November

Aims to elaborate a broad definition of peace education and to expand connections between educators, students, activists, NGOs and professionals from various countries

• Date: 26-29 Nov 1998
• Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
• Organized by International Peace Bureau (IPB)

• Date: 3-5 Dec 1998
• Venue: Paris, France
• Organized by UNESCO

• Date: 29 December 1998 - 1 January 1999
• Venue: New Delhi, India

A full list of all INES e-mail addresses and homepages is available upon request.
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CHANGE: Homepage of the INES International Study Project "Science, Engineering and Development" (INESDEV). The new address is:
http://www-bshm.upmf-grenoble.fr/INESDEV