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Albert Einstein, physicist Photo: Private, by courtesy of Reiner Braun

Appeal

INES appeal for an
International Einstein Year 2005

In the year 2005, scientists throughout the world will be celebrating the centenary of the theory of special relativity and the light-quantum hypothesis, both developed by Albert Einstein in 1905. The celebrations will also honour the 50th anniversary of Einstein's death in 1955... read on

Biohazard, caution label Photo: wikipedia.org

Biological and Chemical weapons Project

"Biological and Chemical Weapon at use for terrorist purposes"

by Kathlene Nixdorf
Following the terrible experiences of the attacks in the USA in 2001, the grave danger exists that terrorist organisations could make use of biological or chemical weapons. Other events in the last years, such as the terrorist attacks in Tokyo... read on

African Tree Photo: ijsendoorn, sxc.hu

Africa Project 2001

Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa

by Nicola Hellmich
On 26th November 2000 the idea was born to start up an Initiative for peaceful and sustainable development in Africa. This was founded on 20.01.2001 in Dortmund (Germany) with a participation of colleagues from 12 African States as well as from Europe. Out of this Initiative INES went on with its Africa Project: „Peace and Sustainable development in Africa“. Throughout the whole year INES supported different groups and single people regarding a variety of new project ideas and started to build up a wide spread network throughout different African countries, Germany and Europe, connecting people... read on

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Kaliningrad 2000: Economic Transition and Sustainability

How did the world get to where it is?

We are here to talk about how to create a sustainable world society under conditions of political and economic transformation. Before attempting to provide answers to this question, it is well to take a good look at the historical developments that got us into the situation, call it "mess" if you like, that the world, in particular Russia, is in. In his introduction to this meeting, Joachim Spangenberg has told us about indicators which can tell us whether or not a country is on the road to a sustainable future. These are very important and useful. Especially since Joachim has also introduced social sustainability indicators, and not only physical sustainability indicators in his efforts to decide whether or... read on

Peace and love human Photo: Bailly Elodie, sxc.hu

Abolition 2000:

Past, Present and Future

In May 1995, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review and Extension Conference at the United Nations in New York, citizen action groups from around the world recognized that the declared nuclear weapons states were unwilling to discuss complete nuclear disarmament as stipulated in the treaty .These organizations drafted an Abolition Statement that would become the founding document of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons.
In 2001, Abolition 2000 held its annual general meeting in Saffron Walden, UK. The participants of the conference adopted a declaration which... read on

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