WHAT'S NEW IN INES?

No.34/1999

Dateline: 26 August 1999

WNII is an electronic information service of INES,
the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility

Editor: Tobias Damjanov, e-mail: < >
INES homepage: http://inesglobal.org
INES International Office < >
INES Chair Prof. Armin Tenner < >

INES Congress 2000

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

Stockholm, 14-18 June 2000

http://www.ines2000.org

 INES 2000 Conference Secretariat: mailto:

CONTENTS of WNII No. 34/1999

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

INES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

Please inform us about changes of your email address or your homepage!

"INES Newsletter" No 26/August 1999

The latest "INES Newsletter" has the following contents:

NOTE: If you would like to receive an email version, send a request to Armin Tenner, Editor of the "INES Newsletter": mailto:   

MEMBER ORGANISATIONS' AND PROJECT GROUPS' NEWS

New issue of "Waging Peace Worldwide" (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation)     http://www.wagingpeace.org

The latest issue (Volume 9, No 2/Summer 99) of NAPF's journal "Waging Peace Worldwide" covers the following main subjects:

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Abolition 2000 homepage: http://www.abolition2000.org

For the latest nuclear weapons abolition grassroots news, visit: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/news/

Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmes  http://www.cnduk.org/briefing/cheval~1.htm

Assembled by Alan Simpson, UK MP for Nottingham South, William Peden, and Louise Edge, the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, has just published an interesting Special Report on the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmes of the US and the UK. You can find it under the title "The Next Chevaline Scandal?" at the URL indicated above; also, you can request this article from the WNII editor

Nautilus Institute Report on U.S.-Japan Nuclear Relations  http://www.nautilus.org/nukepolicy/Nuclear-Umbrella/index.html

In July, the US-based Nautilus Institute released a report that reviews U.S.-Japan nuclear relations as they unfolded from the beginning of the Cold War until the early 1990s. The report, which builds on U.S. government documents recently declassified and released under the Freedom of Information Act, adds news weight to assertions that the United States routinely brought nuclear weapons into Japanese ports despite Japan's non-nuclear policy. The report uncovers that part of the U.S. nuclear war plan itself -- the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) -- was built at U.S. facilities in Japan.

Report 1999 of the Abolition 2000 Working Group on Weapons Usable Materials

Dr. Martin B. Kalinowski, Member of the INESAP Coordinating Committee, has just elaborated and disseminated this Report via email. If you are interested in obtaining it, contact either Dr Kalinowski at:    or the WNII Editor.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Business-NGO Relations and Sustainable Development

This is the theme of the special issue of "Greener Management International" Issue 24 edited by Jem Bendell, University of Bristol, UK. In this specially extended issue writers from NGOs, businesses, consultancy and academia consider the problems associated with partnerships between businesses and NGOs and how such relationships can be made to work in practice.

Table of Contents:

A limited number of individual copies of this special issue is available for purchase at the price of £25.00/$45.00. Postage is gratis. To order, please contact Samantha Self, Greenleaf Publishing Ltd; Tel.: (44-114) 282 3475, Fax: (44-114) 282 3476  http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com

BRIEFINGS

"Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century"   http://www.un.org/womenwatch

Upon request, I can make available basic information, including preparatory (regional) meetings, NGO activities planned, address advice etc., about this Special Session of the UN General Assembly (see Resolution E/CN.6/1999/PC/L2/Rev.1) and the "Beijing +5 Forum" which is to take place at New York, 5-9 June 2000.

Instead of contacting me, however, please note that you can also approach one of the following email contact persons involved in this process (from which I actually received the information indicated above):

Note that INES (members), being accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), could participate in this conference.

CONFERENCES - MEETINGS - SEMINARS

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

All Africa Peace Conference (AAPC)

For more details,  mailto:   

Fourth International Conference on Peace and Nonviolent Action (IV ICPNA)

Main theme: "Ahimsa (Nonviolence), Peacemaking, Conflict Prevention and Management"

Note that in addition, an International Preksha Meditation Training and Orientation Camp is being organized at the same place from November 15 to 21, 1999. According to the organisers, Preksha Meditation is a scientifically tested technique for the management of stress and depression and for the harmonious development of the individual personality.

For more details, mailto:  

(*) Like INES, this organisation is a member of the International Peace Bureau

Workshop "Biosafety 1. Science and Policy in Risk Assessment of Transgenic Organisms: A Case Study Approach"  http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/biosafety/

For more details, contact Ms. Micaela Di Blas, ICGEB   mailto: 

Workshop "Biosafety 2. Advanced Research and Procedures: Case Studies for Designated Experts"  http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/biosafety/

For more details, contact Ms. Micaela Di Blas, ICGEB  mailto: 

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