+++++++++++++++++++ WHAT'S NEW IN INES? +++++++++++++++++++

No. 1/1998 ---------------------------------------------------- Dateline: 11 Jan 98

Editor: Tobias Damjanov, Kreutzkamp 33, D-21465 Reinbek, Germany

e-mail:

INES homepage: http://www.mindspring.com/~us016262/ines.html

Proofreading by Kate Maloney, SGR UK

++++++ INES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE ++++++

=== > Please do not forget to inform us about changes of your email address or your homepage!

=== > Member Organisations' + Project Groups' News

<> INESAP
--- INESAP Information Bulletin No. 14 (editorial and list of contents)
(published via INESAPlist)
Author: Juergen Scheffran, Coordinating Editor <>
also available at: http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ze/ianus/inesap/current.html

--- Request for authors for INESAP Information Bulletin No. 15
The main subject of the next issue will be 'Security'.
Coordinating Editor Dr. J. Scheffran is interested in any assistance or advice concerning authors who would be willing to contribute scientific articles on issues related to the question of security (note that Global and Regional Security is a major subject of this year's INES International Council)
!CONTACT! Juergen Scheffran <>

<> INESNASS (INES Project on NATO, Alternative Security and Sustainability)
The convenor of this group intends to publish occasionally an 'INESNASS Chronicle'. Like WNII this electronic newsletter would cover web and other references related to the subjects of the group, as well as reports on group activities and plans. It would be sent only to persons interested, including organisations and individuals outside INES.
!INFO! So if you have any suggestions and advice concerning references or topics which you think should be included, please contact the convenor Tobias Damjanov at <>

++++++ BRIEFINGS ++++++

=== > Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
(see also the last two WNII issues) <> Book review: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty by Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow (already published via INESnet) Author: Rose Dyson <> Source: Eric Fawcett <>

<> MAI and The Amistad (MAI reception in the US). Contributions by
--- John Klotz <> http://www.walrus.com/~jklotz/
--- Richard Salvador <>

++++++ CONFERENCES - MEETINGS - SEMINARS ++++++

!NOTE! Events listed here are being published only once due to limited space.
Changes, however, will be taken into account - they will be marked with ''!UPDATE!''

<><>18-27 Feb 98: Peoples' Movements' meetings and conference for the resistance against the Global Market, Geneva, Switzerland
--- 18-21 Feb: information and discussion roundtables
--- 22 Feb: Seminar on the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
--- 23-25 Feb: Conference to launch the People's Global Action

Against ''Free'' Trade and the WTO (PGA)
--- 27 Feb: European meeting to launch a Europe-wide movement of civil disobedience against free trade

!INFO! Play Fair Europe! <>

<><>23-26 June 98: Meeting Human Needs in a Cooperative World, Durban, South Africa

17th General Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) !INFO! Prof. Vasu Gounden, University of Durban Westville <>

++++++ INES WEB- AND EMAIL SERVICE ++++++

!NOTE! A full list of all INES e-mail addresses and homepages is available upon request.

!NEW! Germany: INES Student Network:
/and:/  Sandra Striewski: http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/home/vms/fiedeler/inesstud.html

!NEW! Germany: INES Project on NATO, Alternative Security and Sustainability (INESNASS): Tobias Damjanov, Convenor: <>

!CHANGE! Germany: Interdisziplinaere Arbeitsgruppe Naturwissenschaft, Technik und, Sicherheitspolitik IANUS (Interdisciplinary Working Group on Natural Science, Technology and Security Politics): <> http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ze/ianus/welcome.html

!CHANGE! International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP): <> http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ze/ianus/inesap/inesap.html

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