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The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems. Meeting in private as individuals, rather than as representatives of governments or institutions, Pugwash participants exchange views and explore alternative approaches to arms control and tension reduction with a combination of candor, continuity, and flexibility seldom attained in official East-West and North-South discussions and negotiations. Yet, because of the stature of many of the Pugwash participants in their own countries (as, for example, science and arms-control advisers to governments, key figures in academies of science and universities, and former and future holders of high government office), insights from Pugwash discussions tend to penetrate quickly to the appropriate levels of official policy-making.
Policy Briefs
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs policy briefs can be found in the Policy Briefs section of CIAO.
Conference Proceedings
Title: Misuse of Science
Authors: Michael Atiyah, Ralph Benjamin, Ana María Cetto, Matthew Meselson, and Joseph Rotblat
Date: August 2000Title: Resources and Environmental Degradation as Sources of Conflict
Authors: Anne H. Ehrlich, Peter Gleick, and Ken Conca
Date: August 2000Title: Human Aggressiveness and War
Authors: Robert A. Hinde and Lea Pulkinnen
Date: August 2000Title: Poverty as a Cause of Wars
Authors: Morris Miller
Date: August 2000Title: Political and Economic Causes of War
Authors: Alexander Nikitin
Date: August 2000Title: Ethnicity and Religion
Authors: Helen Watson and Jack Boag
Date: August 2000