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

Detailed Program

The presentations kindly provided by the lecturers can be downloaded clicking on the names or title evidenced in dark yellow.

Sunday 9 January 2011

Arrive Hotel Gruppo Brenta, Andalo

Monday 10 January 2011

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Matthew Evangelista
Introduction to ISODARCO
Carlo Schaerf
Opening lecture
Nuclear weapons and international humanitarian law. Pursuing disarmament as humanitarian action
Rebecca Johnson

16:30 – 18:00   Session 2  Chair: Takao Takahara – Secretary: Andrew Branch
Enforcing the rules in a nuclear weapon free world
Harald Müller


18:15 – 19:45   Session 3  Chair: Nadia Arbatova – Secretary: Elise Connor
Civilian and military dimension of nuclear technologies
Mirco Elena

21:00 – 22:30   Session 4  Chair: Mirco Elena – Secretary: Matthew Cottee
Memorial lecture for Gary Chapman
Diego LatellaCarol Flake ChapmanGloria C. Duffy

Tuesday 11 January 2011

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Carlo Trezza – Secretary: Stefan Diepenbroek
The New START Treaty
Alexei Arbatov

16:30 – 18:00   Session 2  Chair: Giorgio Franceschini – Secretary: Clara Evangelista Filler
NATO’s Nuclear Future
Harald MüllerTom Sauer

18:15 – 19:45   Session 3  Chair: Paolo Foradori – Secretary: Nadezhda Gavrilova
A European Nuclear Force?
Nadia Arbatova

Evening activity
Party

Wednesday 12 January 2011

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Bruce Larkin – Secretary: Matthew Harries
From nuclear primacy to post-existential deterrence
Tom Sauer

16:30 – 18:00   Session 2  Chair: Alessandro Argentini – Secretary: Evgeny Kalashnikov
HEU and Plutonium elimination programs: a critical appraisal
Pavel Podvig

18:15 – 19:45   Session 3  Chair: Laura Reed – Secretary: Phyllis Ko
Assessing the nuclear spring 2010 (Nuclear Posture Review, NPT RevCon, NSTART): turning point or same business as usual?
Panel: Harald Müller, Rebecca Johnson, Amb. Carlo Trezza

Thursday 13 January 2011

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Nikolai Kalashnikov – Secretary: Moritz Kütt
Fissile material production in South Asia
R. Rajaraman

16:30 – 18:00   Session 2  Chair: Mieke Massink – Secretary: Helen Tulloch
The Iranian nuclear crisis: Pugwash initiatives and track-two diplomacy
Paolo Cotta-Ramusino

18:15 – 19:45   Session 3  Chair: Steve Wright – Secretary: Anastasia Medvedeva
The North Korean nuclear conundrum
Jae-Jung Suh

21:00 – 22:30   Session 4  Chair: Diego Latella – Secretary: Roberta Mulas
Nuclear juxtaposition in South Asia
Petr Topychkanov

Friday 14 January 2011

9:00 – 10:30   Session 1  Chair: Matthew Evangelista – Secretary: Bradley Craig Petersen
Western Policies vis a vis Iran and North Korea: chances of success, risks of failure, humanitarian aspects
Panel: Tom Sauer, Chong-Ae Yu, Paolo Cotta Ramusino

16:30 – 18:00   Session 2  Chair: Valentin Smyntyna – Secretary: Sarah Poe
The economic prospects of a nuclear renaissance
Marco de Andreis

18:15 – 19:45   Session 3  Chair: Francesco Calogero – Secretary: Marina Shkapina
Nuclear energy in the 21st century: expanding or in decline? A view from Europe, from India, from Russia and the US
Panel: Marco de Andreis, R. Rajaraman

Saturday 15 January 2011

9:00 – 12:00   Roundtable discussion
Next steps on the Road to Zero
Rebecca Johnson, Alexei Arbatov, Matthew Evangelista, Giorgio Franceschini

Wrap-up
Matthew Evangelista, Giorgio Franceschini, Carlo Schaerf