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- PUGWASH CONFERENCES ON SCIENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS UPDATE
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- The first Pugwash Workshop on `Social Tensions and Armed
- Conflicts: Ethnic and Other Aspects` was held in Pugwash, Nova
- Scotia, Canada, August 20-22, 1992. Twenty specialists from
- nine countries met to examine the new global threats posed by
- ethnic conflicts in the aftermath of the Cold War. This is
- especially evident in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslav
- Republic where, as new states emerge and struggle to acquire au-
- tonomy after years of oppression, violence threatens to under-
- mine any hopes for peace and democracy. The participants con-
- cluded that in order to reduce the global threats of ethnic con-
- flict it will be necessary first to prevent the conflicts from
- erupting into violence. Second, the new international dimen-
- sions of ethnic and cultural conflicts may require a new defini-
- tion of the concept of sove
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- Nearly 300 renowned scientists, diplomats, and academicians
- from around the world came together in Berlin, Germany, for the
- 42nd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. The
- Conference, entitled Shaping Our Common Future: Dangers and
- Opportunities, was held during the week of September 11-17,
- 1992, and represented a significant departure from previous
- Pugwash Conferences. In addition to the `traditional` Pugwash
- objectives of nuclear disarmament, worldwide restructuring of
- the military, and global arms transfers, Conference working
- groups also addressed other, less conventional threats to inter-
- national security, including population and migration, economic
- disparity, and environmental degradation.
- reignty and a consequent reformation of the UN. Finally, in a
- world where the traditional nation-state is caught between the
- conflicting forces of global integration and ethnic separatism,
- it is important to foster a new global consciousness among peo-
- ple.
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