Proceedings of the Forty-eighth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Jurica, Mexico, 29 September-4 October 1998: The Long Roads to PeaceWorld Scientific, 2001 - 456 pages 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. |
Contents
Participants Students | 13 |
Statement of the Pugwash Council | 21 |
Report on Working Group 1 | 31 |
Report on Working Group 3 | 41 |
Report on Working Group 5 | 48 |
Report on Working Group 6 | 54 |
Proceedings of the Second Plenary Session | 77 |
36 | 83 |
Ivo Slaus Legitimate Institutions for the 21 Century | 219 |
The Challenge of | 228 |
Hugo Estrella Building Pluralism Through a Participative | 257 |
Stefan Luby Information Future in Social Context | 268 |
Xie Zhiqiong Asian Financial Crisis and China | 285 |
Catalina Eibenschutz The Dialogue of San Andres Chiapas | 293 |
Bjørn Brunstad The Role of Context change for Successful | 299 |
Gabriel Baramki Conflict Mediation as It Relates to the Palestinian | 305 |
Dr Raul BenitezManaut | 93 |
Ambassador Claude Heller | 102 |
Is This As Good As It Gets? | 108 |
Papers Submitted to the Conference | 117 |
Nikitin Russian Nuclear Policy and Zigzags of Nuclear | 127 |
Implications for Non | 134 |
Joseph Rotblat New Dangers to World Security | 140 |
Sukovic NuclearWeaponFree Zones and NonProliferation | 151 |
Jose Manuel Andreu PsychoBioSocial Control of Aggression | 159 |
Alison Jamieson International Organized Crime and Its Effects on | 166 |
Policy Options | 173 |
Michael Klare for the International Community | 179 |
Tara Kartha Problems in Controlling the Trade in Light Weapons | 187 |
The SIUS Project | 193 |
A Global Assessment | 207 |
Radovan Vukadinović The International Actors and the Redefinition | 317 |
Ulrich Albrecht Globalization and Organized Crime as a Problem | 326 |
Adele Buckley Hydrogen A Sustainable Energy Carrier | 341 |
Onaney Muniz The Special Role of the Mangrove Forest Coral | 350 |
Aharon Zohar Environmental Protection for Peace in the | 357 |
Owen Greene Promoting Implementation of the Framework | 364 |
J Martin Ramirez War Is Biologically Avoidable | 375 |
Martin Kaplan Health Effects of Nuclear Chemical | 384 |
The PTSD | 390 |
Martin Kaplan Interactions of Health Problems and Poverty | 397 |
A Challenge for the New Millennium | 407 |
Dzenana Rezakovic Public Health and New Technologies in the | 426 |
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