The International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) network convened a workshop involving aspiring young scholars to discuss ways in which ISYP specifically can be strengthened and how more generally the network of young people working on disarmament and non-proliferation can be enhanced. The setting of Thinkers Lodge, Nova Scotia, location of the first ever Pugwash Conference in 1957, played an inspiring location for generating one-and-a-half days of productive discussion and thinking.