Workshop Documents main congress
documents (if available) are linked To names of speakers or organisators
Workshop Session 1 - August 27th, 15.15 - 16.45
Workshop Session 2 - August 27th, 17.00 - 18.15
- Multiplying Our Effectiveness, Building Sustainable Networks: Working Successfully with Health Agencies, Non-medical NGOs on Violence Prevention Research, Education, other Programming
Organizer: Aiming for Prevention
Moderator: Dr. Paul Saoke, IPPNW Kenya
Short presentations and roundtable discussion with the following speakers:
Chris Bem, MD, Medact : Kidist Bartolemeos, WHO Injury Dept/Africa WHO
Robert Mtonga, MD IPPNW Zambia, Cluster Munitions Steering Committee
Andrew Winnington, MD New Zealand; Dr. Sebastian Taylor, Chief Executive, Action on Armed Violence
- The Obama Administration's Position on Nuclear Disarmament and the Response of Physicians for Social Responsibility
Organizer: Robert Gould, MD, President, SF-Bay Area PSR, Associate Pathologist, Kaiser Hospital, San Jose, CA.
Speakers:
Moderator and Panel Participant: Jeffrey Patterson, DO (President, PSR; Professor of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health)
Panel Participants: Edward Ifft , PhD, Adjunct Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; former U.S. State Department negotiator for START and CTBT, and former Deputy Director, On-Site Inspection Agency; Robert Gould, MD, President, SF-Bay Area PSR, Associate Pathologist, Kaiser Hospital, San Jose, CA.
- Global Consequences of Local Nuclear War
Facilitator. John Loretz, Program Director, IPPNW
Speaker: Ira Helfand, PSR-USA
- Nuclear Bomb Victims of the World
Organizer: Katsuyuki Takeda JPPNW / PANW and Yutaka Manabe
Speakers: Yutaka Manabe, Democratic Medical Institution; Dr Hiroshi Iwanaga, Neurologist and Chairman of World Nuclear Victims Organisation, Japan; Dr Enver Tohti, Uighur cancer surgeon in China (1985-1997) discovered the link between the high rates of cancer and the secret nuclear tests, now political refugee (UK); Kazakstan: Dr. Oleg Nikitin, MD
- Fatal Consequences of Radionuclide Contamination in Urban Environment
Organizer: Prof. Jürg Ulrich (em.), University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Speakers: Prof. Anatoliy Prykhodchenko, Dnieprodzerzhinsk State Technical University, Ukraine
- Media and accidents in nuclear reactors
Organizer: Jürg Ulrich, MD, Basel.
Speakers: Rudolf Rechsteiner, economist, ex-member of the Swiss National Council, Basel
Representitives from media: to be confirmed later
- Advancing Peace Education for Health Practitioners
Facilitators and speakers:
Klaus Melf (IPPNW Norway), Stephan Kolb (IPPNW Germany) and Marion Birch (Medact)
- Effect of Low Artificial Radiation on Insects
Organizer and speaker: Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, swiss artist
- Environmental Crisis and Danger of War - a Second Look
Organizer and speaker: Till Bastian, MD, has published his first investigation within a IPPNW-sponsored study in 1990 - twenty years ago. Nowadays he feels it might be time for "a second look".
Workshop Session 3 - August 28th, 10.30 - 12.00
Workshop Session 4 - August 28th, 15.15 - 16.45
- Nuclear Weapon Free Zones (NWFZs): Laboratories for Abolition
Facilitator: Tim Street, ICAN-UK
Speakers: Tim Street, ICAN-UK, Jans Fromow Guerra, Mexico (TBC), Dr. Landetta and Dr. Pierscionek
- Learn about Nuclear Weapons
Organizer: SLMK, the Swedish Affiliate of IPPNW.
Speakers: Gunnar Westberg; Josefin Lind
- Landmines, Cluster Munitions, Small Arms and Light Weapons: Status of Global Efforts to Control and Prevent Injuries
Organizer: Aiming for Prevention
Speakers:
Ime John MD, MPH, PhD, IPPNW Co-president, Nigeria - Small arms and light weapons
Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey, Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament & Environmental Protection - Landmine Monitor, Landmine Education activist - Landmines
Chris Bem, MD, Medact (IPPNW affiliate UK)
Dr. Sebastian Taylor, Chief Executive, Action on Armed Violence - Explosive Munitions
Moderator: Robert Mtonga MD, IPPNW Zambia, ICBL Advisory Committee, Zambia Landmine Monitor, Steering Committee Cluster Munitions Coalition
- Death on the Silk Road
Organizer: Dr Enver Tohti, Uighur cancer surgeon in China (1985-1997) discovered the link between the high rates of cancer and the secret nuclear tests, now political refugee (UK) Speaker: Dr Enver Tohti
Co-speakers: Prof: Masako Ikegami, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University and board member of the Swedish Pugwash Group, Dr. Madjit Husainov, antinuclear activist and founder of the antinuclear movement of Kirgizstan, Prof. Hideshi Takesada, Director of the Japanese National Institute for Defence Studies
- Beyond the 2010 NPT Review Conference
Organizers and speakers:
Prof. Dr. Harald Müller, Executive Director Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Dr. Christian Schoenenberger, Head, Task Force on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
- Neoliberal Economic Globalization; Global Crisis and War
Organizer: Dr. Carlos Pazos, IPPNW Cuba
Program / Speakers:
- General Concepts on: Neoliberal Economic Globalization; Global Crisis and War - Dr. Carlos Pazos (Cuba)
- The Causes of Global Crisis: The United States and The Third World - Dr. Antonio Jarquín (Nicaragua) In the case that Dr. Jarquín could not attend the Congress, Dr. Helmut Lohrer (Germany) would read his presentation
- The Causes of Global Crisis: Europe - Dr. Christoph Kraemer (Germany) - General debate
- Gaza and Israel
Organizer and speaker: Hillel Schenker, Co-Editor Palestine-Israel Journal (www.pij.org); Donald L. Mellman, MD, MPH, MBA, was a private practice neurosurgeon for 26 years. He now concentrates on healthcare policy & management issues as well as those of social and economic equity.
Moderator: Liz Waterston
- The Hidden Casualties of War
Organizers:
Society for Chemical weapons victims support SCWVS
PSR-Iran (doctors- students)
Speakers: Shahriar Khateri, MD, Leila Moein, medical student
- sun21 and Peak Oil Resources - the Two Related Number 1 Priorities ? Prevention of Nuclear War and Climate change
Organizer: IPPNW Switzerland
Speaker: Daniele Ganser, Andreas Nidecker, Martin Vosseler