Science, Peace and Sustainability

INES has been involved in the discourse of sustainability, science and peace for a long time, with a long-standing tradition initiating or participating in this discourse:
e.g. at the INES conferences in Amsterdam (1996), Stockholm (2000) or through the INES ac-tivities at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg (2002).

Whereas it is often scientific paradigms that shape our perception of the world, the way we manage it happens mainly through technological structures, i.e. through a combination of scientific and engineering knowledge. Engineering is a closely interrelated but independent institutional structure to science, and a paradigm shift is as necessary here as it is in the scientific community. Given the fact that sustainability science understands itself as problem solving, science, engineering and design are competing for the role of the best problem solver, a competition that needs to be made fruitful for sustainable development.

The high relevance of military research should be an essential part in the discussion of science for sustainability. INES is an active part in the scientific and civil society coalition for abolishing nuclear weapons.

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Program

This is a Preliminary Program for this Meeting

Friday 29th, 2008

(Place: Mexico City: National Library),
UNAM: National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Welcome (Opening) 16:00-17-30 hrs

Science, Peace and Sustainability
- an introduction to the audience to INES and UNAM by
David Krieger

- INES president-

Invited: Rector of UNAM, Dr. José Narro Robles.

Public lecture

Steps to World Citizenship

Sir Harry Kroto,

(Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1996)

Florida St. University

. Challenges for inevitable global and regional changes in society due to peace, science and technology developments. Scientists, Researchers and Technology Developers need to acquire global ethical considerations towards their research activities and their applications. The concept of World Citizenship is needed to face the consequences of such applications on some key inevitable changes in the way of life of modern societies and the environmental resources in the global and regional scales.

Views of Responsible Science

Dra. Elena Álvarez Buylla

(UNAM-UCCS)

18:00 hrs

Transfer to IMSS-Oaxtepec
(1hr bus drive)

Dinner: World Café
(socializing event)

Saturday 1st March, 2008

1st Day of Working groups.

Wellcome

9:30 hrs

Speakers: Reiner Braun (INES)-, A. Salazar (INES, UNAM, Mex)

10:00-14:00 hrs


Lectures

• I. Challenges and Globalization of Science and the role of Scientists

Chair: Jean Paul Lainé,

Participants: Raúl Montenegro, M. Fortes, M. Perelló

Lunch

16:00-18:00 hrs

• II. Nuclear Weapons, Militarization and violence: The persistent Threats to Human Security
  

Chair: R Braun,

Participants: David Krieger, J Scheffran

Sunday 2nd March, 2008

10:00-12:00 hrs

• III. Environment, Global Warming and making of a more liveable World.

Participants: A. Martinez, O. Masera, E. Leff*

12:00-14:00 hrs

• IV. New ecological and economical strategies: Building the paradigm Sustainability.

Participants: R. García-Barrios, R. Montenegro,

16:00-18:00
Discussion session

Latin America: a continent of immense social and political change;

What impulse can give to world's change the social and political changes in Latin America? We will be discussing the rise of alternatives for a social and ecological development, in contrast with the neo-liberal economical trend.

Participants-. Heinz Dietrich.

Monday 3rd March 2008

Transfer to Mexico City

11:00 hrs.
Faculty of Sciences. This would be the closing of this INES-UNAM meeting,

A sustainable world of justice, without war:
a view from responsible scientists

Faculty of Sciences in the campus of the University, UNAM -Mexico City
Invited: Dr. Ramón Peralta-Fabi (Director of the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM)

This second public event will integrate the many ideas and discussions from the meetings in the previous days, and will set up a discourse, possibly a proposal coming from INES-UNAM community, or an announcement of a joint INES project in order to face some of the most crucial global changes.
It will be intended to address or engage some "policy makers", national and international media, and representatives of the society.

Speakers: Vìctor Toledo, David Krieger, Jean Paul Lainé, Marco Martínez, Reiner Braun

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Participants

1. Sir. Harold Kroto. Chemist, Nobel Price Laureate in Chemistry, 1996. Florida State
   University.

2. Raúl Montenegro, Environmental Activist, since 1985 he has been Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the National University of Cordoba. In 1982 he was the principal founder of FUNAM (Environment Defence Foundation), and has been its President since 1995. In 2004 he received the "Right Livelihood Award", known as the Alternative Nobel Price, given by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden.

3. David Krieger. Lawyer, President of INES and the "Nuclear Age Peace Foundation"
   (NAPF), promoting elimination of Nuclear Weapons and building of a sustainable world.

4. Dr. Jean Paul Lainé. Chemist, Univ. of Rouen, France. He is a member of the Executive
   Comitee of INES, promoting INES participation in the Social European Forum.

5. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran. Physicist, Founding member of INES. Working in the
   University of Illinois in Technology Assessment, Sustainable Development and International Security.

6. Heinz Dietrich. Sociologist and Political Analyst, Professor at UAM, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, D.F.

7. Reiner Braun. INES activities coordinator; Journalist on Science and Politics.

8. Prof. Marcelino Perelló, Mathematician, Political Analyst and Activist, Faculty of Sciences, UNAM.

9. Dra. Elena Álvarez Buylla, Researcher in Molecular Genetics at the Institute of Ecology, UNAM, member of Pugwash Mexico and one of the founding members of the UCCS “Unión de Científicos Comprometidos con la Sociedad”, which promotes a more critical
   scientific work, committed to society.

10. Dr. Carlos Gay, director of Center of Atmospheric Studies, UNAM, representative of IPCC Mexico.

11. Dr. Omar Masera Cerutti, Phyisicist, member of Pugwash Mexico of the IPCC. Dr.
    Masera is doing research in Bio-energetics at Center of Research in Ecosystems, CIEco-UNAM, Morelia (Mich.)

12. Dr. Raúl García Barrios, member of Pugwash Mexico, researcher at Regional Center of
    Multidisciplinary Research, CRIM- UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mor.
    

13. Dra. Amparo Martínez, Biologist, founding member of the UCSS. She is a researcher in
    Climate Change and Environmental problems at the Center of Atmospheric Sciences, UNAM.

14. Dr. Marco Martínez Negrete, Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, non nuclear energy trens, member of the UCCS.

15. Dr. Víctor Toledo Manzur, Etnobiologist, member of the UCCS, Ecological and regional alternatives to development; Center of Research in Ecosystems, CIEco-UNAM, Morelia (Mich.) Morelia, Mich.