The presentations kindly provided by the lecturers can be downloaded clicking on the names evidenced in dark yellow.
Sunday 6 January 2019
Arrival and Registration Hotel Gruppo Brenta, Andalo
Monday 7 January 2019
9:00 – 09:30 Session 1 Secretary: Francesca Silvestri
Introduction to the Course
Carlo Schaerf, ISODARCO School Director
Steve Miller, ISODARCO Course Co-Director
9:30 – 11:00 Session 2 Chair: Alessandro Pascolini – Secretary: Francesca Silvestri
The Fundamentals of Nuclear Strategy
Steven Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3 Chair: Wolfango Plastino – Secretary: Elena Batani
The Global Nuclear Order: Understanding the Role of Arms Control and Nuclear Non Proliferation
Nina Tannenwald, Director of the International Relations Program at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, Providence, RI, USA
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Francesco Calogero – Secretary: Mawell Downman
Why Arms Control: the Perspective from the US
Jon Wolfsthal, Former Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs; Director of the Nuclear Crisis Group, Washington DC, United States
21:30 – 23:30 Session 5
Movie Night: Command & Control
Tuesday 8 January 2019
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Sérgio Duarte – Secretary: Hannah Goerlic
The Origins of Arms Control in the Euro-Atlantic Region and Lessons for Today
William Alberque, Director of NATO Arms Control, Disarmament, and WMD Non-Proliferation Center, Brussels, Belgium
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2 Chair: Diego Latella – Secretary: Sara Ouirhran
Arms Control and Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Paolo Foradori, Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of International Studies of the University of Trento, Italy
18:15 – 19:45 Session 3 Chair: Mirco Elena – Secretary: Nicolas Ayala Arboleda
China and Arms Control
Tong Zhao, Fellow, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing, China
21:30 – 23:30 Session 4 Secretary: Elia Gerola
Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Group Discussion
Moderator: Laura Rockwood, Executive Director, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Vienna, Austria
Opening remarks: Karim Kamel, Program assistant with the International Peace & Security Program, Carnegie Corporation of New York, NY, USA
To follow: group discussion
Wednesday 9 January 2019
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Aylin Gurzel – Secretary: Sarah Palazot
Prospects for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
Mark Fitzpatrick, Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Washington DC, USA
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2 Chair: Eve Trezza – Secretary: Keaton Gallahe
Do We Have a Global Proliferation Crisis? Explaining Why States Choose to Acquire Nuclear Weapons
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
18:15 – 19:45 Session 3 Chair: Lyndon Burford – Secretary: Jacopo Polverino
The NPT regime: Strengths and Weaknesses
Laura Rockwood, Executive Director, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Vienna, Austria
21:30 – 23:30 Session 4 Secretary: Andrea Briglia
A Nuclear Just War? Reflections on the Main Ethical Issues Posed by Nuclear Weapons
Mauro Oliva, Master on Organizations Management and Church Social Doctrine, University of Rome “T.V.”, Rome, Italy, in conversation with Matt Evangelista, President White Professor of History and Political Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Thursday 10 January 2019
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Tariq Rauf – Secretary: Lindsay Ran
Linking Proliferation and Arms Control: Understanding Regional Nuclear Orders
Ambassador Sergio Duarte, President of Pugwash; Former United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Brasilia, Brazil
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2 Chair: Laura Rockwood – Secretary: Félicie Jarny
Reflections on the JCPOA
Ambassador Ali Soltanieh, Former Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Teheran, Iran
Karim Kamel, Program assistant with the International Peace & Security Program, Carnegie Corporation of New York, NY, USA
18:15 – 19:45 Session 3 Chair: Allan Myer – Secretary: Fiorella Varga
The Role of Civil Society in advancing the goal of a world free of nuclear weapoms: The experience of Pugwash
Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Secretary General of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
21:30 – 23:30 Session 4 Secretary: Benjamin Kellog
Career session: Understanding what Options for a Career in Nuclear Analysis: A Group discussion
Moderator Karim Kamel, Program assistant with the International Peace & Security Program, Carnegie Corporation of New York, NY, USA
***All lecturers are invited to participate in the session, to share with the students career and professional advices.
Friday 11 January 2019
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Francesca Silvestri – Secretary: Jesse Peter
Arms Control in South Asia
Manpreet Sethi, Senior Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies, Delhi, India
10:45 – 12:15 Extra Activity
Seminar
Artificial Intelligence, Vulnerabilities and Autonomous Weapons
Diego Latella
14:30 – 16:00 Extra Activity
Movie: “La scelta. La scienza senza confini di Edoardo Amaldi”
Proposed by Lodovica Clavarino
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2 Chair: Mark Fitzpatrick – Secretary: Matilde Castriotta
Arms Control in South Asia
Mansoor Ahmed, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
18:15 – 19:45 Session 3 Chair: Bruce Larkin – Secretary: Andrew Gibson
The Nuclear Disarmament Machinery: Instruments, Policies and Opportunities
Tariq Rauf, Former Head of Verification and Security Policy; Alternate Head of NPT Delegation, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
21:30 Evening Session
Party!
Saturday 12 January 2019
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Mieke Massink – Secretary: Francesca Silvestri
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty: Challenges and Opportunities
Ambassador Carlo Trezza, Former Ambassador for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation; Former Chairman of the Missile Technology Control Regime, UN; Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome, Italy
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2 Secretary: Lodovica Clavarin
Closing Session
Evaluation of the Course and Suggestions for the Future
Steve Miller, Carlo Schaerf
16:30 – 18:00 Extra Activity
Seminar
Atoms for Peace: Putting an End to Nuclear Explosions
Wolfango Plastino
Sunday 13 January 2019
6:00 Bus departs for Milan Airports
