Working Groups and Projects
Day to day research, information dissemination and public outreach of Science for Peace occurs through its Working Groups and through specific Projects. Groups study a large range of issues including Nuclear Abolition, Human Rights, Genetic Engineering, Peace Education and Ethics as well as economic issues. New members are encouraged to participate in these Working Groups in order to contribute to research or preparation of reports and events, as well as to learn about specific areas of interest.
Rapidly growing demand, resulting from increasing global population, rising per-capita consumption, and the spread of harmful or inappropriate technologies, is causing an upward trend in the use of resources and the stresses on environmental sinks. At the same time, supplies of resources are being provided at increasing energy cost, and pollution is increasing, most notably the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Climate change makes each factor of concern more worrisome. The Global Issues Project is designed to probe interrelationships among vital factors, and to devise and promote strategies that might help humankind manage its way through anticipated crises.
The Global Issues Project has a range of papers available for download as PDF.
- GIP Brochure (Outside PDF file)
- GIP Brochure (Inside PDF file)
- GIP Prospectus (PDF)
- Roundtable on Forests
- Roundtable on Climate Change & Energy
- Wasan Action Framework (PDF)
- Roundtable on Freshwater
- Overview of Roundtable (PDF)
- Water and Peace in a Rapidly converging World (PDF)
- Freshwater Declaration (English PDF)
- Freshwater Declaration (French PDF)
- Physical Limits to Large-Scale Biomass for Replacing Fossil Fuels (PDF)
Further documentation (conference background papers, etc) can be found on the Canadian Pugwash Group website.
Climate change research findings
This is an online project which involves posting brief abstracts of recent scientific articles on climate change issues, with links to the original articles. Visit the page here page for regular updates.
Conferences, forums, and seminars
See the Events pages for details of past and current Science for Peace events.