Mois : mars 2010

Physicians for Global Survival PGS

in french: Médecins pour la Survie Mondiale

  • Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), a charitable organization formed in 1980, is the Canadian affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which is the only international medical organization dedicated to preventing nuclear war.
  • PGS recognizes that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security … (full text About /Mission).

Homepage;
Abolish; Prevention; Non-Violence; Social Justice; Sustainable World;Resources; Join; Newsletter;
Address: PGS Headquarters, 208-145 Spruce Street, Ottawa, ON K1R 6P1, Canada;
Contact.

Our work: PGS recognizes that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security. Continuer la lecture de « Physicians for Global Survival PGS »

International Network of Engineers and Scientists' Project on Ethics INESPE

A one page website – with links to past Symposia/Courses and Publications by Antje Bultmann and Tom Børsen Hansen – Linked on our blogs with INES, and with INESAP.

INESPE is a registred project under International Network of Engineers and Scientists for global repsonsibility INES.

  • The INESPE network is lead by Ph.D. Tom Børsen, an Associate Professor at Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy at Copenhagen Institute of Technology.
  • INESPE is an international research network on science, engineering, and technology ethics. The network has as its purpose to undertake research and teaching activities in that area on an international level in collaboration with relevant partners. Our activities fall in three categories.

INESPE:

  • organizes symposia and lectures on ethical issues related to the practise and teaching of modern technoscience,
  • offers international and transdisciplinary PhD courses on techno-scientific ethics, and
  • does consultancy work on ethical issues related to the scientific and technological development and practise.

Homepage and Contact. – Link to SINAPSE, a web communication platform.

International Network for Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation INESAP

Linked on our blogs with  INES, and with INESPE.

  • INESAP is the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation and was founded in 1993. It is a non-profit, non-governmental network organization with participants from all over the world.
  • INESAP is part of the world-wide activities of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), which currently comprises more than 60 organizations from 25 countries. INES is a UN accredited NGO … (full text What is INESAP).

Homepage and News;
Bulletins; Publications;
Meetings;
Discussion List;
Membership;
Address: INESAP, c/o IANUS Darmstadt University of Technology, Alexanderstraße 35-37, Geb. S3/04, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany;
Contact.

Projects: Currently, INESAP focuses on the following issues:  Continuer la lecture de « International Network for Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation INESAP »

International Network for Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility INES

Linked on our blogs with INESAP, and with INESPE .

  • The International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) is an independent non-profit organisation committed to influencing the role and the impact that science and technology have on society.
  • INES efforts focus on disarmament and international peace; ethics in science; responsibilities of scientists and the responsible use of science and technology;just and sustainable development.
  • INES was founded in 1991 in Berlin at the international congress “Challenges – Science and Peace in a Rapidly Changing Environment“ and has become a network of over 200 organisations and individual members … (what is INES 1/2).

Homepage;
Events 2010; Campaigns; News 2010; Peace … ; Energy; Education; Member orgs; Links;
Address: INES, Schützenstr. 6a, D-10117 Berlin, Germany;
Contact.

What is INES 2/2: … Innovative Reorganisation: A thorough reorientation of science and technology is necessarily based on integrated system approaches and the acceptance that science can never claim to fully tackle all aspects of reality. Only through innovative reorganisation and public accountability can the scientific and engineering communities meet their obligation to contribute to a sustainable future. Continuer la lecture de « International Network for Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility INES »

Project Ploughshares

Project Ploughshares is an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches established in 1976 to implement the churches’ call to be peacemakers and to work for a world in which justice will flourish and peace abound. The mandate given to Project Ploughshares is to work with churches and related organizations, as well as governments and non-governmental organizations, in Canada and abroad, to identify, develop, and advance approaches that build peace and prevent war, and promote the peaceful resolution of political conflict … (full text Homepage).

What we do; Abolish; Control; Reduce; Build; Support; Library; E-newsletter;
Address: Project Ploughshares, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo ON N2L 6C2, UK;
Contact.

Who we are: A Commitment to Building Peace and Preventing War. Continuer la lecture de « Project Ploughshares »