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.
2013 ISYP Conference, Istanbul
The Global Impact of National and Regional Security Issues
8th International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) Conference
Istanbul, Turkey, 30-31 October 2013
Report on Istanbul ISYP Conference
On the occasion of the 60th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Af airs “Dialogue, Disarmament, and Regional and Global Security” International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) invites students and young scholars from around the world to participate in an international conference that will address, from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between national, regional and global security focusing on the global impact of national and regional security issues (for example exploring the impact of recent developments in the Middle East) on a broad range of topics. Continue reading
2011 ISYP Conference, Berlin
7th International Student/Young Pugwash Conference Berlin, Germany, 29-30 June 2011
Report of Berlin ISYP Conference
On the occasion of the 59th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs “European Contributions to Nuclear Disarmament and Conflict Resolution,” International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) invites students and young scholars from around the world to participate in an international conference that will address, from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between regional and global security focusing on the Middle East, South and East Asia. Continue reading
Meeting in Pugwash, NS, to mark 30 years of Student Pugwash
On 11 July 2009 ISYP organized the meeting: “A Strategy for Student/Young Pugwash: How Students and Young People can Influence the Peace Agenda in the Next Ten Years,” held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada where the transnational movement for nuclear disarmament was launched in 1957. This meeting followed the 6th ISYP conference, “Core Dimensions of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century” held in The Hague, The Netherlands from April 15 to 16, 2009.
Climbing to the Top of the Mountain
International Student/Young Pugwash
We, the leaders of the International Student/Young Pugwash movement endorse this statement on behalf of the ISYP Executive Board: Continue reading
2009 ISYP Conference, The Hague
The 6th International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) conference, “Core Dimensions of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century”, was held in The Hague, The Netherlands from April 15 to 16, 2009.
The agenda was designed to allow two working groups to focus on one side of the nuclear dual-use dilemma, nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. 30 students discussed topics that originated in papers prepared for possible publication in the ISYP Journal.
2007 ISYP Conference, Bari
The 5th annual International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) Conference, held in Bari, Italy from 20 to 21 October 2007. The 20 students in the working group discussed topics that originated in papers prepared for possible publication in the ISYP Journal.
ISYP workshop on Food Security, Chennai
In co-operation with the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, ISYP organized an International consultation on Food security: a great threat to human security, in Chennai, India, from 29 January – 1 February 2007. This brought together over 60 young and senior participants alike to discuss the challenges of global hunger.
2006 ISYP Conference, Cairo
The 4th annual International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) Conference was held in Cairo, Egypt, from 9 to 10 November 2006. ISYP divided 30 students and young professionals and 2 senior participants from 17 countries into two working groups that met in parallel.
ISYP Workshop on New Challenges to Human Security, Wageningen
International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) and Pugwash Netherlands organized two workshops on “New challenges to human security” in Wageningen, the Netherlands from 14-18 June 2006. The choice for this theme emerged from a renewed attention for formulating future areas of intervention by Pugwash. In particular, debate on this issue sought to contribute to find answers to the question of ‘how can organisations such as Pugwash – and its individual members – promote real progress on such issues.
The ISYP workshop took place from 14-16 June 2006. Several of the participants of the ISYP workshop were invited to take part in the subsequent senior Pugwash workshop (from 16-18 June) as well.
ISYP Vision Statement, 2005
Mission possible: engaging a new generation
ISYP vision statement, Hiroshima, Japan, 27 July 2005 Continue reading