The INES Global Responsibility Newsletter reports and comments – from a global perspective – on political, technical and societal developments and comprises of regular internal news sections.
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Die Vereinigten Staaten 600 Tage unter Präsident Obama.
Dr. Subrata Ghoshroy vom Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spricht zur aktuellen Situation in den USA
21.09.2010
Krieg in Afghanistan ausgeweitet
Abschaffung aller Atomwaffen angekündigt aber auch deren Modernisierung beschlossen
Abzug aus dem Irak aber 50.000 Mann - bleiben
Abrüstungsschritte sind angekündigt, obwohl höchster Militäretat der Geschichte der USA
Die USA, in ihrer tiefsten ökonomischen, viele sagen zivilisatorischen, Krise, setzt den Kurs von Hochrüstung und Krieg weiterhin fort. Massenproteste fehlen, nur die Rechte mobilisiert und beherrscht die Strasse wie auch die Medien.
Barack Obama versucht zu modernisieren, stellt aber keinen der Grundzüge des Bush Systems infrage. Die Umwelt und das Klima kommen –trotz der Katastrophe am Golf von Mexiko – weiterhin, sprichwörtlich, unter die Räder.
Wir versuchen, in der Diskussion Antworten zu finden – auch für uns und unsere Aktionen für Frieden, Umwelt und Gerechtigkeit.
Tagungshaus "Alte Feuerwache", Axel – Springer – Straße 40/41, Seminarraum 4
10969 Berlin
21.09.2010 um 19.30 Uhr
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of The Right Livelihood Award the Youth Future Project organises a Youth Conference (in German) that gives 100 young people the opportunity to work and discuss with over 100 Laureates.
The new INES Youth and Student Project Coordinator Fatih Oezcan will participate and represent INES.
Description: Wir möchten 100 junge Menschen einladen, mehr über die aktuellen und die zukünftigen globalen Probleme und Herausforderungen unserer Welt zu erfahren und insbesondere konkrete Handlungsstrategien zur Lösung oder Verhinderung dieser Probleme kennen zu lernen. Die Jugend von heute ist Trendsetter und Entscheidungs-träger von morgen, durch ihr Handeln und ihre Lebensweise halten die Jugendlichen die Zukunft von Mensch und Erde in den Händen. Deshalb ist es wichtig, die heranwachsende Generation mit den Menschen in Kontakt zu bringen, die bereits eine Vorstellung davon haben, wie wir unseren Planeten erhalten können - die Preisträger des Alternativen Nobelpreises. www.rightlivelihood.org/jugendkonferenz.html
Conference: A Climate for Peace
23.-26. September 2010, Oslo/Norway
One hundred years ago, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Peace Bureau (IPB). With this decision the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized the leading role of the IPB in the international movement for peace and disarmament.
Information on the IPB history, the conference and the program here: ipb100.org/
International day of action:No to war in Afghanistan
7. October 2010.
The international anti-war-network “No to war in Afghanistan” is involved in the preparations of this event; it is closely connected to the "No to war – No to NATO"- network.
Further information can be obtained from the INES Program Director Reiner Braun: reinerbrauninesglobalcom
International Conference, 17.-19. November 2010, Lisbon/Portugal
After the successful strategy conference from 16.-18. October 2009 in Berlin the "No to war – No to NATO" -Network prepares a huge alternative conference from 17.-19. November 2010 in Portugal. INES is a co-founder of this Network. Jointly with Portuguese peace-groups actions of civil disobedience and a huge demonstration are being discussed.
The focus of critique remains NATO’s politics of war and the development of a new strategy which is based on military interventions and the first strike of nuclear weapons.
The new NATO strategy will be launched at the NATO summit in Lisbon between 19. and 21. November. Recently published documents of Madeleine Albright and former NATO General Naumann call for the expansion of capabilities of intervention around the world and further expansion of NATO towards the borders of China. Furthermore modernization of nuclear weapons is demanded. The impact of NATO’s expansion towards Russia and the destabilizing effect of this kind of politics show most evitable in Georgia: The war in this region demands a civil conflict resolution of many interconnected problems.
The 16th Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP16) is expected to be held in Cancún/Mexico from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
Role of scientists and engineers for social responsibility in developing countries - 2nd national conference
17. January 2010, Nagpur/India
Successful conference organised by INES, the Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament & Environmental Protection, the Indian Campaign to Ban Landmines & Cluster Munitions and IPPNW.
82 participants from all the parts of India attended the conference. Participants included various high ranking scientists, engineers, researchers, policy makers, intellectuals, legal experts, scientists, social workers and young scientists.
Keynote speakers were:
• Admiral Ramdas (Retd.), former Chief of the Indian Navy
• Mr. M.D Date: Chairman, Institution of Engineers of India
• Mr G.S.Saini, Director, National Civil Defence College, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
• Dr. Tapan Chakarabarty, Director, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India
• Dr. Ramesh Thakre, Vice-Chairman Bharat Krishak Samaj, Former World Bank/ADBEx. World Bank/ADB/USAID-Project advisor in Africa
• Dr. S. M.Taley, Professor of Agriculture Engineering and Director of the Agro-ecology and Environmental Center, A.D.Agriculture University
Who Owns Science? Promises and Pitfalls of the Public-Private Partnerships
19 March 2010, 14:00-18:00, Cambridge, UK
Who should own science?
As a part of the current system for the funding of science new provisions were designed over the last quarter of a century on both sides of the Atlantic. They were meant to provide an incentive for universities to privatize and protect their innovations and, ideally, for industry to make high-risk investments resulting in products made from those innovations. This gave rise to a steep increase in multiple forms of public-private partnerships and a systematic privatization of science. Among the questions we would like to raise at this meeting are, how has this reorganization of the funding landscape affected the practice of science? What are the benefits, and what are the possible limitations and drawbacks for the research enterprise?
Energy: a tentative approach to actual needs and available resources that is both scientifically sound and socially responsible
The World Federation of Scientific Workers (WFSW) invites you to attend an open debate on social needs and energy resources promoted by the Federation on the occasion of its 79th Executive Council Meeting. The debate is due to take place at the Headquarters of the SNESup-Syndicat national de l’enseignement supérieur, 78 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, Paris 10ème arrt. (Subway: Château d’eau).
An introductory presentation will be made by Frederico Carvalho, Ph.D. in Applied Nuclear Physics, retired Senior Researcher of the Nuclear and Technological Institute (Sacavém, Portugal), and Vice-President of the Executive Council of the WFSW. French to English translation will be available.
For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World
International Conference
30. April – 1. May, 2010 Riverside Church, New York City/USA
The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.
Nuclear disarmament should serve as the leading edge of a global trend toward demilitarization and redirection of resources to meet human needs and restore the environment.
INES workshop: Future wars? Conflicts in times of Climate Change
Thursday, 10.6.2010, 19:45 University of Bonn Main Building, Regina Pacis Weg 5,, Auditorium 17 Speakers:
Prof. Jürgen Scheffran, University of Hamburg, INES Reiner Braun, VDW, INES
INES Program Director and Executive Director of the German Section of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) Reiner Braun will give a speech.
For more information and the program (in German) please visit www.mayorsforpeace.de/inhalt/mayors-aktuell-z.php
Read the speech of the INES Program Director Reiner Braun at the conference here:
SpeechRBJapan.pdf (25K)
Declaration of the 10th World conference agianst Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
"On this 65th year of the atomic bombing, we call for increased support to the Hibakusha of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and nuclear victims of the world. Let us inherit and carry forward the experiences and struggles of the Hibakusha as the “undertaking of humanity.” Let us rise in action now with the Hibakusha and with young generation of people who bear the future of humanity".
To begin the array of events on the occasion of the 65 anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japan Scientists’ Association (JSA) held an impressive “Scientists Forum” in Shizuoka.
More than 150 participants reaffirmed their principle rejection of all nuclear weapons and their unequivocal support behind a Nuclear Weapons Convention, as co-developed by INES and the IALANA.
The forum, held by the program director of INES, Reiner Braun, who introduced a definitive call for civil clauses at a side event at the NPT Review Conference in May 2010 in New York, called on all universities worldwide to adopt a single focus of research and education for civilian purposes in their university statutes and rules. “Military research is banned from many universities precisely because of the painful years of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were a result of the scientifically and military-oriented Manhattan Project”, said Braun. The Japanese science organization JSA, which is a member of INES, mutually supported a worldwide campaign for the civil clauses and began to collect signatures at the conference.
