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This year Science for Peace celebrates its 30th anniversary. We can look back with pride at our history of vibrant, challenging discussions of the many life-and-death threats of these times: … Read more President's Letter: Science and Reason
Our contemporary university and college campuses are sites of great transformation these days. Corporate donors are driving academic programs and research projects, governments are clawing back funding, and students are … Read more Mapping a Freedom to Learn: Why Students Must Maintain Their Right to Organize on Canadian Campuses
By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy…Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements…Any talk of climate change … Read more The US Military Assault on Global Climate
This is a mere summary meant to celebrate our history, a selection of some representative activities of Science for Peace on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. Many of the … Read more Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: a 30-Year Retrospective of Science for Peace
We are where we are now because we have stood on the shoulders of giants. I remember several who are no longer with us — Eric Fawcett, founding chair, who … Read more On the Shoulders of Giants
On behalf of my late parents, John and Lois Dove, I send you 30th birthday greetings from Berlin, Germany. My parents were active in Science for Peace in the 1980s … Read more Evolving with the Times
Originally the work of Science for Peace focused on the science of the nuclear age, a phenomenon that our members saw as a suicidal use of scientific knowledge. We met … Read more The Future of Science for Peace
On July 9th, 2011, “The Republic of South Sudan” was born as a new state in the horn of Africa. The country officially joined the United Nations as the 193rd … Read more The New State of South Sudan: An Opportunity for Better Health Care?
Introduction For nearly 20 years the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been the international body responsible for addressing the global problem of climate change. In 1990, the … Read more Climate Politics at the Crossroads