Since 1966 – International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts – Italian Pugwash Group

Detailed Program

Monday 27 January 1997

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: David Carlton
Central Asia: Problems and Perspectives
Peter Ferdinand

16:30 – 18:00   Session 2  Chair: Giancarlo Tenaglia
Russian-Muslim Relations within the Russian Federation
Galina Yemelianova

18:15 – 19:45   Session 3  Chair: Carlo Schaerf
Vision of Pakistan: Threat Perceptions and Action for Peace
Sultan Ali Barg

Tuesday 28 January 1997

9:00 – 10:30   Session 4  Chair: Rita Rogers
Russian Relations with the East: China and Japan
Alexei Arbatov

16:30 – 18:00   Session 5  Chair: Mirco Elena
Quest for Influence in Central Asia: India and Pakistan
Gulshan Dietl

18:15 – 19:45   Session 6  Chair: Francesco Calogero
Sino-Indian Relations in the Post Cold-War Era
Ma Jiali

21:15 – 22:30   Session 7  Chair: Steve Koff
China and Central Asia
Peter Ferdinand

Wednesday 29 January 1997

9:00 – 10:30   Session 8  Chair: Alexei Arbatov
The New Russia and Its Asiatic Front: A European Perspective
Paolo Calzini

16:30 – 18:00   Session 9  Chair: Michele Brunelli
The Caucasus Region
Tamara Dragadze

18:15 – 19:45   Session 10  Chair: William Hoehn
Central Asian Natural Gas for Pakistan and India?
Victor Gilinsky

Thursday 30 January 1997

9:00 – 10:30   Session 11  Chair: Giancarlo Tenaglia
Round Table Discussion on Russia and the West
NATO Enlargement Revisited
David Carlton
Russia and the Balkans
Nadia Arbatova
Utilizing Surplus Russian Nuclear Submarines
Alexei Arbatov
Russia, the West and Nuclear Disarmament
Francesco Calogero


16:30 – 18:00   Session 12  Chair: Maxwell Bruce
Post-Soviet Central Asia: Fragmentation and Polarization
Anara Tabyshalieva

18:15 – 19:45   Session 13  Chair: Janet Heller
Continuing Civil War in Afghanistan
Anthony Hyman

Friday 31 January 1997

9:00 – 10:30   Session 14  Chair: Francesco Calogero
Round Table Discussion on Nuclear Weaponry in South Asia
Victor Gilinsky,
with Sultan Ali Barq, Gulshan Dietl and Andrew Koch

16:30 – 18:00   Session 15  Chair: Victor Gilinsky
Round Table Discussion on Kashmir
Anthony Hyman, Gulshan Dietl
and Saad Khan

18:15 – 19:45   Session 16  Chair: Andrew Koch
Ethnic Conflict as Political Smokescreen
Tamara Dragadze

Saturday 1 February 1997

9:00 – 10:30   Session 17  Chair: Nadia Arbatova
The Political Economy of Russian Regional Tensions
Philip Hanson

16:30 – 18:30   Session 18  Chair: Tamara Dragadze
Round Table Discussion on Russia, Central Asia and Spine of Crises
Alexei Arbatov, Anthony Hyman, Galina Yemelianova,
et al.

18:45 – 19:45   Session 19  Chair: David Carlton
The Future of ISODARCO
Francesco Calogero

The Future of Pugwash
Carlo Schaerf