Proceedings of the ... Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs
Title | Proceedings of the ... Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs PDF eBook |
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Pages | 496 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Disarmament |
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Proceedings of the Seventeenth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Ronneby, Sweden, September 3-8, 1967
Title | Proceedings of the Seventeenth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Ronneby, Sweden, September 3-8, 1967 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 584 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs |
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Proceedings of the 10th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs "Scientists and World Affairs"
Title | Proceedings of the 10th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs "Scientists and World Affairs" PDF eBook |
Author | Pugwash conference on science and world affairs (10°. 1962, 3-7 septembre. Londres) |
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Pages | 484 |
Release | 1962 |
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Proceedings of the Forty-ninth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Rustenburg, South Africa, 7-13 September 1999
Title | Proceedings of the Forty-ninth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Rustenburg, South Africa, 7-13 September 1999 PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Rotblat |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 487 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9810247737 |
In September 1999, scientists and scholars from around the world, concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions to global problems, met under the auspices of the Pugwash conferences, the Nobel-Prize-winning organization. The proceedings deal with a broad range of issues, including: a nuclear-weapon-free world; emerging security threats; development; environment; and international governance.
Proceedings of the thirty-first Pugwash conference on science and world affairs
Title | Proceedings of the thirty-first Pugwash conference on science and world affairs PDF eBook |
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Pages | 339 |
Release | 1981 |
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Science and World Affairs
Title | Science and World Affairs PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Rotblat |
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Pages | 124 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Nuclear disarmament |
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Proceedings of the Forty-eighth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Jurica, Mexico, 29 September-4 October 1998
Title | Proceedings of the Forty-eighth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Jurica, Mexico, 29 September-4 October 1998 PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Rotblat |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789812810212 |
In this book, scientists who are pre-eminent in their fields focus on the crucial role of science in the transition away from a culture of war towards the construction of peace based on a capacity to anticipate and prevent destructive conflicts. The subject matter, wide-ranging and of great concern to people everywhere, includes the progress and prospects for a nuclear-weapon-free world; non-nuclear threats to peace and security; the building of legitimate world institutions; conflict resolution and the construction of peace; the local and global environmental dimensions of peace; the health hazards of nuclear chemical and biological weapons; and the interactions between health problems and poverty. Contents: Chiapas: Politics or War (R Benitez-Manaut); Nuclear Disarmament: Is This as Good as It Gets? (M M Bosch); The Future of Nuclear Weaponry and our Civilization (F Calogero); Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Non-Proliferation (O M Sukovic); Technology and the Prevention of Genocide (D Andersen & A Moden); Asian Financial Crisis and China (Z-Q Xie); Ethnic Identity and Border Disputes in the Balkans (N Behar); Water Security in Southern Africa (N Dippenaar); Poverty, Disease and War (J Avery); Poverty, Public Health and Peace: A Southern African Perspective (R A Mogotlane); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students in social sciences.