Briefs and Essays

Here is a list of archived conference papers, occasional papers and Bulletin articles, sorted by author.

Adele Buckley

Arctic Governance 2010-11-19

Alan Phillips

Eliminate Launch on Warning 2004-09-21

No Launch on Warning 2003-05-15

Science for Peace Discusses South Asian Nuclear Tests 1998-09-01

The World Court Project 1993-03-21

Y2K and Accidental Nuclear War? 1998-09-01

Alan Weatherley

Book Review: The Art of War 1991-03-01

Editorial Matters 1990-08-01

Editorial Matters 1991-03-01

Editorial Matters 1989-11-01

From the Editor 1991-01-01

The case of the Lost Virus 1986-10-01

The Role of NATURE 1991-11-01

Towards a Comprehensive Test Ban 1991-03-01

Troop Cuts and Open Skies 1990-03-01

Anatol Rapoport

A UN ‘Brain Trust”? 1987-10-01

Editorial 1987-01-01

Focus on Education 1987-02-01

Focus on Education 1987-04-01

Focus on Education 1987-05-01

Focus: Education 1987-03-01

John McMurtry’s ‘Understanding War’: Foreword 1990-03-01

Peace: An Idea whose Time has Come 1992-12-01

President’s Corner 1986-01-01

President’s Corner 1986-02-01

President’s corner 1986-03-01

President’s Corner 1986-04-01

President’s Corner 1985-05-01

President’s Corner 1985-12-01

Realpolitik as a Form of Madness 1991-03-01

Remarks at a Citizens’ Inquiry into Peace and Security 1991-11-01

The President’s Corner 1986-05-01

The President’s Corner 1985-01-15

The President’s Corner 1984-09-21

Visit to Moscow 1988-01-01

Andrea Levy

Degrowth: A Snail’s Eye View of Social Transformation and Ecological Preservation 2015-05-22

Andrew Pakula

The Truth About the Serbo-Croatian Conflict 1991-11-01

Angela Regnier

Mapping a Freedom to Learn: Why Students Must Maintain Their Right to Organize on Canadian Campuses 2011-11-15

Anna Jaikaran

Obama and the NPT 2010-01-08

Anne Cole

Ethics and Computer Ethics 1991-03-01

Barbara Birkett

It’s A Matter of Vision 2003-05-15

Bev Delong

Academic Call For Nuclear Abolition 1999-01-01

The Nuclear Abolition Imperative 2009-04-14

Bill Bhaneja

Towards a Federal Department of Peace in Canada 2006-09-20

Blair Kuntz

A Report on the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine Delegation, June 23-July 4, 2013 2013-12-02

Bob Baxter

Book Review: Malicorne 1995-08-01

Book Review: Rape of Canola 1995-04-01

Chlorine and Good Manners 1993-06-21

Extraterrestrials Have Problems Too 2000-12-21

New Concerns Over Biological Weaponry 1992-12-01

Bob Russell

Second International Scientists’ Congress “Ways out of the Arms Race” 1989-02-01

Cameron Harrington

Roundtable on Freshwater 2008-12-20

Carolyn Langdon

Hague Appeal for Peace – Canada 1999-01-01

Chandler Davis

At the Edge 2010-10-28

Chomsky and others look at the crisis 2003-05-15

Science for Good or Ill 1990-03-01

Christian Bay

83.28. Science For Peace Research Proposal 1983-06-21

Psychology Of Peacemaking Discussed In Amsterdam 1986-10-01

David Lorge Parnas

Analyzing the INF Agreement 1987-11-01

False Dichotomies: How the War is Sold 1991-03-01

How to Free Kuwait 1991-03-01

Images of War 1991-03-01

The North American Free Trade Agreement 1993-03-21

The SDI is Dead! Long Live the SDI! 1993-06-21

David Suzuki

Science Matters: Taking the planet for a spin 2005-09-21

Derek Paul

25 Years of Science for Peace 2006-02-14

84.05 A New Security And Arms Control Centre For Canada 1984-01-15

84.29 Book Review 1984-04-15

Biochar-Enhanced Sequestration of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide 2010-10-28

Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology 2008-06-20

Chernobyl 1986-06-01

Climate Change and Carbon Taxes 2008-03-20

Culture of Peace-Culture of War 2007-12-20

Definition of a Radical 1996-01-01

Electrical Energy Consumption: The Human Side of the Problem 2004-09-21

Guaranteeing Income 2012-09-21

Pugwash Conference 2002-09-21

Report of the Meeting on Issues 1998-09-01

Roundtable on Food and Population 2010-01-08

Science for Peace: What kind of future? 1994-01-01

The Need for General and Complete Disarmament 2010-11-19

The Roundtable on Forests 2006-09-23

The Work of the Global Issues Project and the Wasan Action Framework 2007-12-21

Toward Security and a World Without War: Steps to facilitate disarmament in a reluctant social order 2010-11-24

Writing a Letter to the Prime Minister 2005-02-14

Dominick Jenkins

Playing On Our Hopes And Fears: Technological Unemployment After the End of the Cold War 1997-03-01

Ed Barbeau

Editorial 1984-09-21

Edwin Daniel

Climate Change and Industrial Agriculture 2010-10-28

Working Group on Genetics and Biotechnology 2003-05-15

Ellen Larsen

Canada and Biological and Chemical Weapons Research 1992-12-01

Canada and Chemical Weapons: Science for Peace Testifies to the Biological and Chemical Defence Review Committee 1995-08-01

Continued Discussions Between SfP and the BCDRC 1993-06-21

Eric Fawcett

82.52. Japanese Peace Movement 1982-10-07

84.03 The Peace Initiative 1984-01-15

A Moscow Letter From Eric Fawcett 1990-08-01

Canada And Renewal Of The Non-Proliferation Treaty 1995-04-01

Fourth Annual DFAIT Peacebuilding Consultations Ottawa, March 1 and 2 2000-05-01

How The OAS Charter Was Violated 1990-08-01

Science for Peace and INES 1992-12-01

Science for Peace and Justice: SPJ-Brazil 1989-11-01

The Evolution of World Order: Building a Foundation for Peace in the Third Millennium 1997-07-01

United Nations Reform 1994-01-01

Floyd Rudmin

Cross-Cultural Correlates of War 1990-08-01

Round-Table Conferences: An Application of Small-Wins Theory 2003-05-15

Social Science Commentary on Abu Ghraib 2005-02-14

Gaston Fischer

The Summit — Seen from Europe 1986-01-01

George Ignatieff

Free Trade 1987-11-01

Letter from the President 1988-05-01

Letter from the President: The Powder Keg Of Europe: a New Perspective 1988-04-01

President Ignatieff’s Report To The Annual Meeting Of May 7 1988-06-01

President’s Corner 1988-01-01

President’s Corner 1988-02-01

President’s corner 1987-01-01

President’s Corner 1987-02-01

President’s Corner 1987-03-01

President’s Corner 1987-05-01

President’s Corner 1987-06-01

President’s Corner 1987-09-01

President’s Corner 1987-10-01

President’s Corner 1987-11-01

President’s Corner 1987-12-01

President’s Corner 1986-06-01

President’s Corner 1986-09-01

President’s Corner 1986-11-01

Review: End the Arms Race 1987-05-01

George Lakoff

Metaphor and War 1991-03-01

George Spiegelman

The Problem Of Military Funding Of Non Military Research 1988-10-01

Gussai Sheikheldin

Sudan’s Secession Referendum: A Historical Punctuation Mark in the Making 2011-04-05

H. Patricia Hynes

The Silent Casualty of War: The Global Environment 2011-04-05

The US Military Assault on Global Climate 2011-11-15

Hani Kim

Military Research and Canadian Universities 2002-09-21

Two Koreas: One Hope for Peace 2005-09-21

Hanna Newcombe

Rational Scheme for a Reformed UN Security Council 2005-02-14

Report From The DFAIT — NGO Peace Building Consultation 1997-03-01

Hans Blumenfeld

83.29. Letter From Hans Blumenfeld 1983-06-21

Helmut Burkhardt

From the President 2000-12-21

New Concepts of Security 2002-03-21

Reflections on the Public Forum on Food and Population – How Many Can We Feed? 2010-04-15

Step One: Reducing the Ecological Footprint by Changing Technology 2008-03-20

The Role of Media For Sustainability 2002-03-21

The Sustainability Nexus 2010-11-26

Third Interdisciplinary Conference on the Evolution of World Order: From Knowledge to Sound Policy and Action 2002-06-21

Irwin Guttman

NAFTA and the Militarization of Canada 1993-03-21

Jacqueline Medalye

Climate Politics at the Crossroads 2011-11-15

Janis Alton

International Peace Bureau in Alexandria, Egypt 2008-03-20

Peace Studies at the European Peace University 1994-01-01

Jean Smith

Governments Lie 2008-03-20

In Response 2002-09-21

Jean-Guy Vaillancourt

Review 1987-04-01

Jim Deutsch

Another Bank is Possible 2012-04-21

Deep-sixing the Deep Geological Nuclear Waste Repository 2013-12-02

Joe Cummins

Terminators Galore! 2005-05-14

Joe Vise

For Peace and Reconciliation in Israel and Palestine 2002-03-21

John Bacher

Petrotyranny: 9/11 Causes and Responses 2003-05-15

John Dove

Nuclear Winter Threat 1986-06-01

John Foster

Petroleum, Power and Fear: Challenges for Canada 2008-09-20

John McMurtry

Action and Understanding 2008-10-04

Corporate Globalization and Society Destruction: Joining the Dots of War and Peace in Ukraine 2014-10-27

Excerpt from ‘Understanding 9-11 and the 9-11 Wars’ 2004-09-21

The Historic Moment 1990-08-01

The Science for Peace Vocation 2008-06-20

John Polanyi

Getting Over Our Nuclear Denial 2010-04-15

John Valleau

82.10. Science For War? 1982-02-18

Globalization, the WTO and You 1999-12-01

Organising A Campaign Against Space Weapons: A Draft Treaty And A Planning Conference 2002-06-21

Rebuttal to Globe & Mail “Star Wars” Editorial 2004-01-15

Statement to the Minister’s Defence Review Consultations 1994-12-01

The Ballistic Missile Defence Issue: SfP and NOOS 2002-03-21

Judith Deutsch

Climate Justice, Contraction and Convergence, and Eliminating GHG Emissions 2012-04-21

Comments on Some Books and Articles on Food and Population 2010-04-15

Findings on Extreme Violence 2007-12-20

Gaza — Humanitarian Emergency and the Threat of Nuclear War 2008-03-20

Gaza and Israel 2009-04-14

Iran Letter 2020-01-18

Message from the President of Science for Peace 2009-09-21

Message from the President of Science for Peace 2010-01-08

Message from the President of Science for Peace 2010-04-15

Message from the President of Science for Peace 2010-10-28

Munk School of Global Affairs and the Harper Government collaborate on “Direct Diplomacy” in Iran 2015-05-22

Panglossing the Climate Emergency Connecting the Crises of Climate Change, Militarization, Extreme Poverty 2016-05-07

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: a 30-Year Retrospective of Science for Peace 2011-11-15

President’s Letter: Science and Reason 2011-11-15

The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza 2006-09-20

Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the Threat of Nuclear War 2015-05-22

Julia Morton-Marr

Canadian Peace Education Conference Report 2004-01-15

Global Sustainability Education Video Conference 2005-02-14

Kabir Joshi-Vijayan

The Myth of Peacekeeping: 2007-06-20

Kate Dewes

David Lange’s Peace Legacy Lives On 2005-09-21

Lee Lorch

Review: Perestroika 1988-01-01

Working Group on Cooperation with Cuban Science 1994-04-01

Leonard Johnson

Veterans In Moscow 1988-02-01

Leslie Jermyn

The State of Global Food Production and Recommendations for the Future 2009-09-21

Lynn Trainor

82.26. Report On Educational Activities 1982-05-07

Margaret Back

The Mines Action Coalition 1996-01-01

Margrit Eichler

The Muzzling of Science in Canada 2012-09-21

Mary Foster

Landmine Detection & Removal Technology Research Competition 1999-01-01

Mel Watkins

Letter from the President of Science for Peace to Douglas Roche 1999-01-01

President’s Message 1998-09-01

President’s Message 1999-01-01

President’s Message 1999-06-01

President’s Message 1999-12-01

Metta Spencer

Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy and Global Security (report) 2006-10-27

How to Democratize the Planet 2010-11-19

How to Save the World in a Hurry 2014-05-31

Peace and Democracy in Russia 2011-04-05

President’s Corner: Can Anyone Help Syria? 2012-09-21

President’s Corner: Constraints on Freedom of Scholarship and Science 2013-05-14

President’s Corner: Controversy and Conversation 2016-05-07

President’s Corner: Making Knowledge Scarce 2013-12-02

President’s Corner: When Saving Others Doesn’t Work 2015-05-22

The President’s Corner: Science for Peace as a Foreign Language 2017-02-13

Toronto Wants Zero Nuclear Weapons 2010-01-08

Wanted: Writers Who Will Work for Change 2007-12-20

What the Presidential Candidates Say – and Don’t Say 2008-03-20

Michael Mandel

This war is illegal and immoral, and it won’t prevent terrorism 2001-12-09

Michael Wallace

Nuclear Attack Submarines For Canada? 1989-02-01

Mike Pearson

The Non-Offensive Defense of Europe 1989-02-01

Murray Thomson

Militarism in Canada Today: What do we do about it? 2008-06-20

Nancy Olivieri

From the President’s Desk 2005-09-21

Nick Dyer-Witheford

Military Related Research at the University of Western Ontario 2007-06-20

Oliver Brandes

Water Crisis 2008-09-20

Paul Hamel

Aiding & Abetting War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity 2004-01-15

Environment and War 2004-01-15

From the President 2002-06-21

From the President 2003-05-15

Genetically Modified Food: A Field of Dreams? 2000-05-01

Justifications and Racism: Hiroshima Day – August 2, 2004 2004-09-21

Science for Peace Speaks to the Standing Committee on National Defense and Veterans Affairs 2000-05-01

September 11: Then and Now Conference and Workshops 2002-09-21

Structural Violence 2006-02-14

The Reciprocal Signalling Cascade Between State and Non-State Terrorists 2005-02-14

War as an Institution 2004-09-21

Paul York

The Environmental Impacts of Intensive Livestock Operations in Canada 2013-05-14

Pet Cleto

Torture and Other Gender Issues 1993-11-01

Peter Brogden

Underground Nuclear Testing: The Old Arrogance Remains 1991-11-01

Peter Nicholls

On the Shoulders of Giants 2011-11-15

President’s Inaugural Message 1996-08-01

President’s Message — Comfort me with H-bombs 1996-12-01

President’s Message NATO, Canada, and Russia. 1997-03-01

Report from Europe – November 2003 2004-01-15

UK CND goes mainstream – Golden Anniversary Meeting 2008-03-20

What is to be done? – a report on war and anti-war from the UK 2002-03-21

Peter Shepherd

Genesis of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Project 1996-01-01

The Kyoto Brief 2002-09-21

Working Group on Ozone and Climate Change (WGOCC) 1994-04-01

Philip Ehrensaft

A Nuclear Watergate: West Germany’s “Transnuklear Affair” 1988-06-01

Guns, Butter, and Empire 1990-03-01

Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism: Research by the Nuclear Control Institute 1988-05-01

Phyllis Creighton

65 Years: It’s Time to Retire the Bomb! 2010-10-28

An Arctic Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: Why is now the time? 2010-01-08

Canada and Nuclear Weapons 2006-02-14

Geneva in July 2002-09-21

Global Governance and World Without War 2010-11-19

Hope for a Nuclear-Free World 2009-09-21

Nuclear Alert 2005-09-21

Nuclear Weapons: Just Say “No”! 2008-06-20

Update on the International Peace Bureau 1992-12-01

Vancouver World Peace Forum’s Vision 2006-09-20

What Can You Do Through Mayors for Peace? 2009-04-14

Where does peace begin? 2007-12-20

Richard Erskine

Publications Journal Review 1990-03-01

Robena Weatherley

Low-Level Flying: Quebec/Labrador 1990-03-01

Robert Logan

Nobel Peace Prize 1995 — Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Movement 1996-01-01

Robert Stewart

Peace Studies 2009-04-14

Rocco Galati

Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Laws- Bills C36, C22, C35, C42 2001-12-09

Rose Dyson

Update on OISE/IKIT Research 2005-05-14

Violent Entertainment: The Real Elephant in the Room 2006-02-14

Ross Smyth

A More Imaginative Canadian Foreign Policy 1990-08-01

Democratizing the United Nations 1991-11-01

Sam Lanfranco

Disasters List 2010-04-15

Sara Suliman

Can the U of T Be an Agent for Social Change? 2010-10-28

The New State of South Sudan: An Opportunity for Better Health Care? 2011-11-15

Science for Peace

83.33. Restrictions To Prevent Technology Transfer To Eastern Block Countries 1983-06-21

An achievement: The International Conference on Arctic Cooperation 1988-11-01

Ethical Technology – Technological Ethics 1989-11-01

George Ignatieff at 75 1989-02-01

Minister’s Defence Review Consultations: a debriefing after the latest sortie 1994-12-01

NATO Defender Europe 2020-01-25

Peace and Protest in the UK 2009-09-21

Space: The Next Frontier for War? 2000-12-21

The City of Hiroshima Peace Declaration 1986-09-01

World Court Nuclear Judgement Day 1996-08-01

Shirley Farlinger

Global Governance and a World Without War 2010-11-19

Science For Peace Renewal 2005-09-21

Students of Science for Peace

Kyoto primer 2005-05-14

Tadatoshi Akiba

Peace Declaration 2002-09-21

Terry Gardner

A Brief Review of a Brief’s Review 1994-12-01

General Lee Butler in Ottawa – 11 March 1999-06-01

Retreat to Discuss Science for Peace Activities 1989-11-01

Theresa Wolfwood

The Basis of Peace is the Security of the Commons 2004-09-21

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Outline of Some Issues To Be Considered by the Working Group on Environmental Change and Security 1990-08-01

Tim Brac

84.30 Tim Brac Writes On Test Ban Treaties 1984-04-15

Thomas Davis

Report on UNCED 1992-12-01

Tom Hutchinson

Nuclear Winter 1985-05-01

Tom Stafford

Reed Elsevier & the arms trade: profiting from both cause and cure 2006-09-20

Tony Arrott

Adrenaline For Peace 1988-10-01

Letter From The President Of Science For Peace 1988-06-01

Words from the President 1989-06-01

Trudy Dorn

Land Mines 1997-03-01

Ursula Franklin

84.24 Brief From Professor Ursula Franklin To Joe Clark 1984-04-15

Citizens and Scientists or Scientists — Citizen-Scientists 1989-11-01

various

SfP looks to the future 1989-02-01

Venilla Rajaguru

Report of the Working Group on Oceans and Frontiers 2017-02-13

Walter Dorn

CWC Nears Ratification 1992-12-01

Peace-keeping Satellites: A Review of a Science for Peace Activity 1988-04-01

Technologies for Peace: Canada Proceeds Cautiously 1990-03-01

Vice-President’s Message 1996-01-01

William Browett and Phyllis Creighton

Science for Peace Position 2017? NATO, Canada, USA, and Russia 2017-02-13

William Epstein

A Total Nuclear Test Ban is the Best Way to Strengthen the NPT 1990-03-01

NPT Conference 1985-12-01