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16 June 1993 Dear President Clinton, The Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban, and the current moratorium on testing nuclear weapons. A letter on the above subjects dated June 8, 1993 and signed by Peter Brogden (Chair, Toronto Chapter of Science for Peace), M. Leith (Chair CTB Committee of CPPNW), John C. Polanyi (Nobel Laureate, … Read more Letter from SFP President to US President
Oakham House, Ryerson Polytechnic University
Saturday, 29th May 1993
Science for Peace has subscribed to WEB, a global communications network serving the needs of the environmental, peace, international development, social justice and social services communities. WEB is menu driven, simple to use and provides many features. Its most useful service is network conferences. One can join written conversations with other users on a variety … Read more Science for Peace Joins WEB
On November 8 & 9, 1991, twenty-three scientists, academics, physicians and students attended a Workshop organized by Science for Peace to discuss the use of ethical codes in science and research, entitled the Workshop on Ethical Considerations in Scholarship and Science. Some of the participants in the Workshop together with a few others produced a … Read more The Toronto Resolution
Raymond Boyer was born in Montreal and received his Ph.D. in chemistry from McGill. He lived and travelled in Europe for several years in the 1930s, studying at the Sorbonne and the University of Vienna. On his return to Montreal he was horrified by the social injustice and misery around him, and in response to … Read more Raymond Boyer, 1906-1993
Kenneth Boulding was one of the greatest exponents of the principles which Science for Peace represents. For many years he was an associate and close friend of Dr. Anatol Rapoport. The following passages have been taken, with Dr. Rapoport’ s permission, from a memorial tribute which he has written for publication elsewhere.
edited by Joseph Rotblat, Jack Steinberger and Bhalchandra Udgaonkar, published by Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Westview Press, 1993, 221 pp.
ACT for Disarmament’s Women’s Collective and Voice of Women are collecting resource materials on rape counselling, trauma counselling, feminist therapy, etc. for women’s groups in Zagreb, Belgrade, and Prishtine. If you can donate resource materials, please mail to ACT, 736 Bathurst Street, Toronto, M5S 2R4. If you don’t have resource materials to donate, you can … Read more How you can help the independent feminist/peace movement in former Yugoslavia:
This is a section of his report to the War Resisters’ International Executive on his visit to Prishtine, 18-23 February 1993
Andrew Pakula has sent the SfP office documents on computer disk about the war in former Yugoslavia by activists, journalists, and other citizens from the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere. The documents provide a glimpse into the horrors of the war and to promote understanding and peaceful resolution. Analyses and commentary pieces were selected to represent … Read more Resources on former Yugoslavia