Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre for Science and Peace Research
The interdisciplinary Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre for Science and Peace Research (ZNF) has being established at the University of Hamburg. The main function of the centre is to offer scientific expertise on arms races, arms control,and conflict transformation. By founding the centre, the structural conditions for the integration of peace research into the activities of the scientific university departments shall be formed. The centre started work on March 1, 2006.
The ZNF is based on a joint initiative of scientists from ten departments of the University of Hamburg as well as from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH). It is sponsored by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) with 1.25 million Euros over five years by way of funding a professorship for Science and Peace Research. Martin Kalinowski has accepted the offer to become the first Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker professor.
The opening ceremony was held on July 7, 2006. Speakers included Egon Bahr (Berlin), Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky (Director emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, USA), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Wolfgang Liebert (IANUS, Darmstadt University of Technology), Volker Rittberger (DSF and Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen) and Martin Kalinowski (ZNF Hamburg).
The Research Group for Biological Weapons and Arms Control, founded in 2003 at the University of Hamburg, has recently been integrated into the ZNF. For more information see www.uni-hamburg.de/znf.
