Roberto Fieschi
Tempo fa ho scritto una nota su un documento dell’USPID a proposito del programma nucleare iraniano e del Trattato di Non-Proliferazione Nucleare (TNP).
Ora riprendo la questione generale dei problemi del disarmo e dei rischi di conflitti per informare di una recente iniziativa dell’USPID.
L’Unione degli Scienziati Per Il Disarmo OnlusS (USPID) e’ un’associazione di scienziati e ricercatori costituita nel 1982 con l’obiettivo di fornire informazione ed analisi su controllo degli armamenti e disarmo, incluse quelle relative all’impatto ambientale ed ai costi umani dello svlluppo e della diffusione degli armamenti. I membri dell’USPID ritengono che questo compito sia un imperativo morale e di responsabilita’ sociale degli scienziati. Io faccio parte del Consiglio scientifico.
Fra gli argomenti di interesse dell’USPID rientrano l’impatto ambientale e sociale della produzione e uso delle armi, controllo degli armamenti nucleari e disarmo nucleare, proliferazione nucleare, conseguenze delle esplosioni nucleari, controllo del materiale fissile, sviluppo di tecnologie militari, disarmo convenzionale, disarmo chimico e biologico, problemi relativi ai conflitti e alla loro risoluzione.
l’USPID organizza convegni, conferenze ed incontri, fra cui, dal 1985, i Convegni Biennali Internazionali di Castiglioncello.
Essa inoltre collabora con l’ International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO), che dal 1966 organizza corsi internazionali di alta formazione su questioni di sicurezza internazionale, controllo degli armamenti e disarmo.
L’USPID collabora con organizzazioni internazionali di scienziati e con altri enti italiani. Membri dell’USPID partecipano alle Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Premio Nobel per la Pace 1995 congiuntamente a J. Rotblat.
Qui riporto una frase di Rotblatt e il programma del prossimo Convegno.
“The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.”
Above all, remember your humanity.
— Sir Joseph Rotblat
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
PRELIMINARY 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 ONLUS; 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;)
Paolo Foradori, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
Sverre Lodgaard, Member, Pugwash Executive Committee
Steven Miller, Director, International Security Program, Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard University
Katarina Simonen, PhD (international law), Senior Advisor for Research, MOD, Finland
Chairs:
morning session: Giuliano Colombetti, CNR (ret.), USPID
Afternoon session: Sandra Butcher, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
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
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
Venance Journe, Physicist, Researcher at the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (Paris)
Francesco Lenci, Physicist, Retired CNR Research Director; Member USPID Scientific Council; Former USPID Secretary National
Ivo Slaus, Dean, University College for International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb
Chair: Carlo Bernardini, retired Professor of Physics, University of Rome, USPID
18:30 – 19:30
Assemblea Nazionale USPID ONLUS 1a c (for USPID members only)
20:00 – dinner at “La Limonaia”
21:30 – 22:30
Assemblea Nazionale USPID ONLUS 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”
Mi sembra un programma interessante. Chi fosse interessato al Convegno, puo’ trovare tutte le informazioni, incluse quelle di logistica e sulle quote di iscrizione, nel sito dell’USPID ONLUS (www.uspid.org)