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Critical Issues in the Pathway to Nuclear Disarmament
15th 
International "Castiglioncello" Conference
Pugwash-USPID Joint meeting 
September 26-29, 2013, Castiglioncello, Italy

in collaboration with

Comune di Rosignano Marittimo, Fondazione U. Veronesi – Science for Peace, SENZATOMICA



Announcement & Sponsors (version in italian)

Logistics & Registration form (version in italian)


Programme (.pdf)



  PROGRAMME




Thursday, Sept. 26

20:00 – dinner at “La Limonaia”

21:30 - 23:30
Public event: Opening of the exhibition

Senzatomica.
Trasformare lo spirito umano per un mondo libero da armi nucleari

The public discussion will be introduced by the panelists

Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Secretary General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milano. In 1995 the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs  has been awarded  the Nobel Prize for Peace, shared with J. Rotblat.
 
Daniele Santi, Secretary General, Campaign “Senzatomica” of the Istituto Buddista Italiano Soka Gakkai (IBISG)

Chair: Diego Latella, Segretario Nazionale USPID ; Senior Researcher in Computer Science with the Institute of Science and Technologies of Information of the Italian National Research Council.

The official language of the public event will be italian.
 
Friday, September 27

08:45 – 09:00
Conference opening and welcome

In the following sessions
open discussion on the different issues will be introduced by the panelists

09:00 – 12:30 and 15:00 – 18:30

Elimination of WMD from the Middle East
The Syrian Case.
Iran: the Nuclear Controversy

Serguei Batsanov, Director, Geneva Office, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Member, Pugwash Council; Member, International Advisory Board, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Paolo Foradori
, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento

Steven Miller
,  Director, International Security Program, Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard University; Co-principal investigator, Project on Managing the Atom;  Chair Pugwash
    Executive Committee

Katarina Simonen
, PhD (international law), Senior Advisor for Research, MOD, Finland, and Associate Fellow, Eric Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki

Chairs:
morning session: Giuliano Colombetti, CNR (ret.), USPID
afternoon session: Sandra Butcher, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Senior program Coordinator and Director of History Project), UCL (Honorary Res. Ass.)

coffee breaks at 10:30 and 17:00; lunch at 13:00 at “La Limonaia”


20:00 – dinner at “La Limonaia”
 
Saturday, September 28

09:00 – 12:30

Afghanistan: The European Role over the Last 12 Years,
and Prospects for 2014
Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Secretary General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milano

Fabio Mini, Essayist and commentator on geopolitical and strategic military issues; former Commander of International forces in Kosovo; former Chief of Staff with NATO Command in Southern Europe during the Balkan wars.

Chair: Serguei Batsanov, Pugwash Council, DCAF

coffee break at 10:30

13:00 – lunch at “La Limonaia”

15:00 – 17:00

Cyber-warfare and prerequisites for democracy in a digital world

Götz Neuneck, Deputy Director, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Hamburg; Member, Pugwash Council

Gian Piero Siroli, Researcher, Physics and Astronomy Dept. University of Bologna, INFN & CERN

Chair: Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Pugwash (Secretary General), USPID


17:00 – 17:30  – coffee break


17:30 – 18:30 (Session to be continued on Sunday, September 29 at 09:00)

European Contributions to Nuclear Disarmament
Martin Butcher, Policy Advisor, Arms and Conflict, Oxfam

Francesco Calogero, retired Professor of Physics, University of Rome; former Secretary General, Pugwash Conferences
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Desirable? Feasible?

Venance Journe, Physicist, Researcher at the Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement (Paris); former Member of Pugwash Executive  Committee
Challenges to the Non Proliferation regime. What could be done ?

Francesco Lenci, Physicist, Retired CNR Research Director; Member USPID Scientific Council; Former USPID Secretary National

Luigi Mosca, Physicist
The nuclear armament situation in France as seen by « Armes Nucléaires STOP » 

Chair: Carlo Bernardini, retired Professor of Physics, University of Rome, USPID


18:30 – 19:30
Assemblea Nazionale USPID  1a c (for USPID members only)

20:00 – dinner at “La Limonaia”

21:30 – 22:30
Assemblea Nazionale USPID  2a c (for USPID members only)
 
Sunday, September 29

09:00 – 13:00

European Contributions to Nuclear Disarmament (continued)
Chair: Carlo Schaerf, ISODARCO (President of the School), USPID

coffee break at 10:30


13:00 – Conference closing and lunch at “La Limonaia”



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