International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation

Healing the century of violence: towards sustainable peace

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XIIIth World Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, University of Melbourne, 4th - 8th December 1998.

The general aim of the congress is to build global solidarity amongst the peace movement and facilitate networking. Congresses like this provide an opportunity for concerned medical practitioners to get together; reflect, work and plan together; share information and experiences; renew and build bonds of trust, friendship and understanding which are the essential glue of the anti-war movement.

It will be the first to be held in the southern hemisphere, and so will have a strong element of asia-pacific regional issues and the impact of development on the region's indigenous peoples.

Two major speakers have confirmed they will address the congress:

Jose Ramos Horta: Nobel Peace Prize winning East Timor activist

Richard Butler: UN Iraq weapons inspector

Major workshops and session at the congress will include:

• Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
  
  
• Energy for all 6 billion of us
  
  
• Landmines
  
  
• Third world debt
  
  
• Threats to health from war and environmental problems
  
  
• The ethics of science and war
  
  
• Regional conflicts and the rights of indigenous peoples

The program will include plenty of opportunities for networking, including a full calendar of social and cultural activities with a strong Australian flavor.

The full conference registration brochure is expected to be available in May - if you would like to receive a copy, please inform me and I will mail you a copy direct. Before and after that mailing, any new information about the conference will be posted on our website -http://www.ozemail.com.au/~mapw

Students will be offered a discounted registration fee. We are also looking for volunteers to help run the logistics of the congress - in return they can attend for free with meals etc provided.

Contact Greg Barber at the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) on pager: +61 3 9625 1532 or email: lmapw@ozemail.com.au.