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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. 35/1999

• INES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
  • Member Organisations' + Project Groups' News
    • Computer Professional for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
    • Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
    • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's project "The Nuclear Files"
    • "Peace Matters" - Newsletter of the Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP)
• BRIEFINGS
• Re: Crisis in Chechnya/Dagestan
• NATO Website at Center for Political and Strategic Studies
• CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, SEMINARS
• The UN, Humanitarian Intervention and Disarmament. Lessons from the war over Kosovo
• Millennium Forum "The United Nations for the Next Century"
• Shaping the Sustainable Millennium - Collaborative Approaches
• INES WEB- AND EMAIL SERVICE

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!

MEMBER ORGANISATIONS' AND PROJECT GROUPS' NEWS

USA: Computer Professional for Social Responsibility (CPSR)  http://www.cpsr.org

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On 24-25September, CPSR is organizing a conference "Governing the Commons: The Future of Global Internet Administration" at Alexandria, Virginia/USA. CPSR will provide a forum in which stakeholders can engage in a civil discussion of potentially contentious issues. The value of this event will be to allow parties to articulate their positions in public, to engage in moderated debate with other parties, and to educate a broad audience of policymakers and stakeholders. The conference program will address three broad topics:

<> 1. ICANN [Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers] and the Emerging Institutional Order

<> 2. Competition in the Domain Name System

<> 3. New Technologies Impacting Internet Administration

(see also: http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/dns99/dnsconf99.htm   )

(II)

Combined with its 1999 Annual Meeting, CPSR is going to hold "The Internet Gold Rush of '99: Can We Pan for Gold While Serving the Good?  The Pursuit of Wealth and Equity in Cyberspace" at Stanford University,   Palo Alto, CA, on 2-3 October.  The Programme is as follows (for updates, see URL indicated above):

• Keynote: Historical Amnesia in the Silicon Gold Rush
• Panels and Interactions:
  • Social Responsibility and Financial Success - Oxymoron?
  • The Digital Divide: Is the Internet as Great Equalizer Losing Ground?
  • Software at the Crossroads: Open Source Software and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)
  • CPSR's prestigious Norbert Wiener Award for Social Responsibility in Computing Technology is being awarded to the Open Source Software Movement

USA: Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)  http://www.ieer.org

The July 1999 issue (Vol. 7, No. 4) of the IEER periodical "Science for Democratic Action" contains the following:

• Liquid Radioactive Wastes in Russia. A Problem Without End (Valery I. Bulatov)
• Articles on the Balkan Crisis:
  • Nuclear Dangers in Light of the Balkan Crisis (Vladimir Iakimets)
  • Ecological and Health Implications of NATO Bombing
• [on nuclear waste storage] Deep Underground Storage in France? (Mary Byrd Davis)
• Update on Nuclear Treaties

plus a page with scientific (sort of...) riddles and another one with the "Atomic Puzzler," a crossword puzzle that is.

USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's project "The Nuclear Files"

A number of websites contain information on nuclear issues, but they typically appeal to relatively narrow audiences such as grassroots peace activists or policy specialists. Some sites have collected treaties and presidential documents, while others chronicle a particular historical event or refer to nuclear information to promote a CD or book. Until now, there has been no single, comprehensive online source for easy-to-access information on the Nuclear Age.

NuclearFiles.org goes well beyond a collection of links and documents for narrow audiences, probing the ethical and political implications of the Nuclear Age. To be sure, NuclearFiles.org provides access to the major nuclear-related websites and documents, but it also features:

• Several "journeys" guiding you through the politics and personalities behind key events of the nuclear age.
• Twenty-four subject areas, including nuclear weapons accidents, likelihood of an accidental nuclear war, predicaments of nuclear strategy and nuclear ethics, legal aspects, nuclear proliferation, and efforts to achieve arms control, disarmament, and nuclear weapons abolition.
• Basic information about nuclear science and in-depth information on all aspects of nuclear weapons, energy and waste, as well as quizzes to test your knowledge.
• A glossary of key concepts and acronyms.
• Access to information both chronologically and by issue area.
• Biographies of key scientists, politicians, and peace leaders.
• Data and graphs on current weapons deployment and stockpiles.
• Weapons laboratories, testing sites, waste processing and disposal facilities, and nuclear power plants.
• Photos of nuclear explosions and graphics on the resulting fallout throughout the USA.

Nuclear Files intends to become the ultimate research and reference site on nuclear matters (Hiroshima to Stockpile Stewardship). It currently contains 1,400+ pages, 600+ graphics, audio and video files, nuclear bookstore ... and more.

The Nuclear Files       e-mail:     http://NuclearFiles.org/

"Peace Matters" - Newsletter of the Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP)  http://www.haguepeace.org

Issue 2/September 1999 of "Peace Matters", a 20-page tabloid, has now been released which provides a very useful and informative follow-up of the huge Congress at The Hague in May this year (as a reminder: INES is on the HAP Organizing Committee; the International Peace Bureau, to which INES is a member, is one out of four HAP Coordinating Organizations).

• "Peace Matters" No 2 gives you a comprehensive overview of the 12 international KEY INITIATIVES (campaigns) launched at the May Conference. In addition, some of the many DECLARATIONS prepared before or during the Conference are listed. Particularly helpful: All this information is rounded up by contact addresses.
• A number of pages are devoted to YOUTH concerns. Note that there is a specific website for HAP and youth at: http://youth.haguepeace.org    Also, there is the Hague Appeal for Peace youth list-serve.  For subscription, send an e-mail to: < >  Write "subscribe hapy-list" in the body of the e-mail message.
• REPORTS: The Conference organizers have received over 100 reports on the panels, workshops and roundtable discussions. See: http://www.haguepeace.org   Note in addition, that almost 200 sessions in the core programme of the Conference were recorded on audio cassette by QED. You can order copies through their website: http://www.qed-productions.com/hap99.htm
• EMAIL LISTSERVES: A number of listserves have been set up:
  • General listserve: Send an e-mail message to:   with the text "subscribe hapnews-list" in the body of the message
  • Gender Focus Groups: Send an e-mail message to: <   > with the text "subscribe gender-hap(your e-mail)" in the body of the message
  • Religion and Spirituality Focus Groups: Send an e-mail message to: with the text "subscribe hap-rsfg" in the body of the message
  • NEWS FROM LATIN AMERICA is a Newsletter page in Spanish language.  A nivel internacional se ha establecido una Coordinación Externa, conformada por:
    • el International Peace Bureau (IPB). Sr. Colin Archer e-mail:
    • la Fundación FERIS. Dr. Rodrigo Montaluisa Viva e-mail:
    • y la Ascociación Internacional de Ciudades Educadoreas. (AICE) Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, España. Prof. Pilar Figueres  e-mail:
  • A REGIONAL CONTACT LIST is available from the HAP Offices:       

BRIEFINGS

Re: Crisis in Chechnya/Dagestan

Here are some web references for information:

• Chechnya List:
  • Write to:    Subscribe CHECHNYA Fname Sname
  • Or similarly Signoff   Send subscriber messages for distribution to:
• Chechnya Short List:  Publicly readable at:   http://www.egroups.com/group/chechnya-sl/
• Search for appropriate keywords at:  http://www.newsindex.com

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NATO Website at Center for Political and Strategic Studies

[Source: NATO NUCLEAR FLASH 99-37 (August 23, 1999)]

August 1999 -- The Center for Political and Strategic Studies has dedicated a website to NATO at Fifty. The site includes opinion and analysis from U.S. and European experts in government, military, and academia, including former Defense Secretary William Perry, General Andrew Goodpaster, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ambassador Robert Ellsworth, and General Sir Hugh Beach. NATO at Fifty addresses such issues as:

• NATO's new strategic concept;
• The future of NATO enlargement;
• The impact of expansion on NATO-Russian relations;
• NATO's nuclear policy;
• Evolving U.S.-European and U.S.-EU relations.

* http://www.cpss.org/nato/nato.htm

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'')

The United Nations, Humanitarian Intervention and Disarmament.  Lessons from the war over Kosovo

• Date: 17-18 September 1999
• Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
• Organized by the NGO Committee for Disarmament

The recent warfare has given rise to intense international debate over many issues. Among these are:

* the consequences for principles of implementing human rights and the peaceful settlement of disputes

* the future of international law and the role of the UN in future conflicts of this kind

* perceptions of shifts in regional and global balances of forces

* prospects for disarmament and implications for arms proliferation

* implications for the understanding of the role of civil society initiatives in conflict prevention and post-conflict peacebuilding

* implications of military intervention for humanitarian purposes

The seminar will provide an opportunity for examining these and related issues. In addition, part of the seminar will be devoted to looking at developments in international disarmament, including observations on the 1999 session of the Conference on Disarmament, issues for the First Committee of the General Assembly, "landmines and small arms."

Seminar Speakers include :

* Howard Clark, former coordinator of War Resisters International and co-founder of the Balkan Peace Team

* Alexander Belopopsky, Europe Secretary, World Council of Churches

* Dr. Patricia Lewis, Director, UN Institute for Disarmament Research

For more details, mailto:  

Millennium Forum "The United Nations for the Next Century"

• Date: 22-26 May 2000
• Venue: New York, USA
• Organized by the NGO Millennium Forum

The Millennium Forum brings together as organizers the broadest coalition ever of NGOs supporting the UN. NGO representatives from all parts of the world will assemble at UN headquarters to this conference.

NOTE: A Statement "Millennium Mobilization To Demand Full and Adequate Funding for the the United Nations and the UN System" for the "Millennium Mobilization" which was launched by the Steering Committee of the NGO Millennium Forum on July 28, 1999, can be obtained from:   or via fax through: (1-212) 557 3165

For more details,  mailto:  

Shaping the Sustainable Millennium - Collaborative Approaches  http://www.olt.qut.edu.au/int/selby  

• Date: 5-7 July 2000
• Venue: Brisbane, Australia
• Sponsored by:
  • The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB)
  • Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
  • University of Florida (UF), USA
• The conference will bring together innovators from industry, government, research, academia and the wider community to develop frameworks for shaping sustainability in the new millennium. The conference will focus on creating workable frameworks for sustainability through developing responsible communities and industries in the built environment.
• Conference Themes
  • Sustainable Communities in the Built Environment
  • Industrial and Construction Ecology
  • Green Design and Architecture
  • Information, Communication and Education

For more details, contact the Conference Secretariat: mailto: 

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