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Call for signatures and for large distribution of the appeal No to War - No to NATO
Anti war and peace organisations across Europe and beyond are calling for mass protests at the 60th Conference of NATO in Strasbourg Baden-Baden/ Kehl from 3 - 5 April 2009. read on
Symposium: Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Speakers will include Dr. Hans Blix, Sweden; MF Holger K. Nielsen, Denmark; Mr. Hans M. Kristensen, USA; Mr. Pol D'Hyvetter, Belgium; Mr. Alyn Ware, New Zealend; and Ambassador Ali Soltaniyeh, Iran.
Meeting at the School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On the occasion of the World Science Day for Peace and Development 2008, a meeting on the 20th anniversary of the Hippocratic Oath for Scientists will be held on 10 November 2008 at the School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The event will be organized by the UNESCO Office in Montevideo and Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, in cooperation with the authorities of the School of Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, the National Committee of Ethics for Science and Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology of Argentina) and INES (International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility).
The meeting will mark the 20th anniversary of the official instauration -within the school of sciences- of a Hippocratic Oath for Scientists during the graduation ceremonies (Buenos Aires Oath). This Oath was taken internationally as an example of self-regulating behaviour within the scientific community and the wish of several scientists to use their knowledge only for the benefit of humankind.
Read more about the Hippocratic Oath for Scientists read on La cienica que se jugó por la paz (in Spanish) read on Cumple veinte años el compomiso "hipocrático" de los científícos por la paz (in Spanish)
October 15th - 17th, 2008
Teaching ethics to science and engineering students
An international workshop at University of Hamburg.
The natural and engineering sciences produce knowledge and technology which can be abused or used to the better. Students of science and engineering are often unaware of related dilemmas which they will face in their future careers. read on
International Preparatory Conference for the Anti NATO
activities related to the 60th anniversary of NATO
International Peace Bureau (IPB) International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA Europe) war resisters’ international, Stop the War Coalition, Great Britain Stop the War Coalition, Greece Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Germany Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Great Britain Le Mouvement de la Paix, France, Cooperation for Peace, Germany Federal Committee Peace Council, Germany
We will discuss NATO 's 60th anniversary in May 2009, which will be celebrated with an official summit in Strasbourg and Kehl. read on
Appeal: No to War - No to NATO
On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the NATO military organisation, we appeal to all people to come to Strasbourg and Kehl in April 2009, to protest against NATO's aggressive military and nuclear policies, and assert our vision of a just world free of war.
INES seminar at ESF: Towards a nuclear-weapons free Europe and a nuclear-weapons free world
in cooperation with:
World Court Project UK
Swedish Scientists and Engineers Against Nuclear Arms (SEANA)
Pugwash Denmark
IPPNW Sweden
Friday, September 19, 2008
9:30 - 12:30
Speech by Dominique Lalanne, Abolition 2000-Europe; Stop Essais
Dominique Lalanne is Director of Research in nuclear and particle physics at the French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Speech by John Scales Avery, Against Nuclear Weapons
INES and INESAP will participate in the "Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)"
28 April to 9 May 2008
Assembly Hall at the United Nations Office in Geneva.
Lecture on Military Research
by Stuart Parkinson Executive Director, Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)
INES-UNAM Conference, Oaxtepec, Mexico, March 2008
OAXTEPEC DECLARATION: Science for Peace and Sustainability
“In the course of some thousands of years the human species has established a great civilization. It has produced a multifarious culture which accumulated enormous treasures in art and literature. And it has created supreme edifices of science. Therefore, it is of supreme irony that these very developments, intellectual developments of the human species have lead to the creation of the tools of its self-destruction. There are many ways in which life on this planet can be extinguished. Of course there is the slow lingering death by poisoning the environment ... But there is also a way of extinguishing life in one act. That is made possible by the advent of nuclear weapons.”
Joseph Rotblat, Closing words of the 1996 INES Conference, “Challenges
of Sustainable Development,” Amsterdam, 22-25 August 1996.
