News related to "Solutions"

Tilman Ruff visits Moscow for the ICNND meeting

Written 25/06/2009

THURSDAY 25 JUNE 2009. MAPW Vice-President Associate Professor Tilman Ruff visited Moscow for the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, initiated by the Japanese and Australian governments.

The continous threat of nuclear weapons

Written 28/05/2009

28 MAY 2009. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser adressed the National Consultative Committee on Disarmament Conference in Wellington last weekend, talking about issues of nuclear arms possession and the impossibility of differentiating between nuclear weapons for use and those for deterence.

MAPW urges PM Kevin Rudd to end the conflict in Sri Lanka

Written 30/04/2009

MAPW has written to PM Kevin Rudd urging him to call on both sides to end the conflict in Sri Lanka.

In the letter, MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham calls for protection of civilian lives by:

MAPW’S Dr Bill Williams imagines abolition

Written 30/04/2009

30 APRIL 2009. MAPW Vice-President Dr Bill Williams has had a feature published in Online Opinion this week.

Calling for complete abolition of nuclear weapons

Written 09/04/2009

8 APRIL 2009. Calling for complete abolition of nuclear weapons through a convention, MAPW Vice President and Associate Professor Tilman Ruff joined former PM Malcolm Fraser, General Peter Gration, Lieutenant General John Sanderson, Barry Jones and Sir Gus Nossal to publish an article in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

New book: Pacifism and English Literature - February 2008

Written 23/04/2008

R.S. (Bob) WHITE is Professor of English at the University of Western Australia.

Wars have been waged so continuously through human history that they are regarded as unavoidable, but the increasing destructiveness to civilians and the environment makes pacifism an urgent and viable alternative.

Oslo conference: Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Written 04/03/2008

The Government of Norway, with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Hoover Institution, convened an international conference on Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, in Oslo on 26 – 27 February 2008.