Project Updates and Conferences

PSR at Work

PSR Iowa is organizing a conference on "Medical consequences of War" on 25th March 2006 Saturday. The conference is cohosted by PSR and the information is available at http://www.iowa-psr.org/mcw-00-home.html. The main Saturday part is at http://www.iowa-psr.org/mcw-02-cp.html

Be there. If you have any queries, please contact:

Marc Campbell

marcgandalf@yahoo.com
515-277-1296

Student PSR Organizes Seminar

SPSR is sponsoring the 2nd annual Midwest Peace and Justice Seminar in Indianapolis, Indiana, US in April 7-9, 2006. The seminar will have a variety of workshops ranging from human rights to environmental issues. Besides NWIP (Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project) is expected to provide dialogue trainings.

Not only the medical students and faculty but anyone interested are welcome to participate. Target Indianapolis installment is another attraction.

The details are available at: (http://www.iupui.edu/~sage4/sagepeaceandjusticesummit.html) 

If you are interested to help or participate in the seminar, please free to contact Shannon (sgearhar@iupui.edu) with any questions!

Register for World Congress in Helsinki 2006!

The deadline to register for the upcoming World Congress at Helsinki is approaching fast. The World Congress is the unique opportunity to know about the peace and disarmament activities going on in the world and know about the views and perspectives on peace works and disarmament.

Besides, you could meet many doctors, medical students and peace activists from around the world. And, off course you probably don’t want to miss the opportunity to visit the beautiful city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

The details are available at www.ippnw-students.org/Helsinki

If you have any questions, please contact:

Alex Rosen (alexro80@web.de) and Khagendra Dahal (khagenvikram@hotmail.com)

Latin American students to meet in El Salvador

The Latin American students of IPPNW are meeting this October in El Salvador. This has been a positive development after our regional representative of South America Ademar Guardado took an extensive trip to the Central America.

This will be a great opportunity to learn about the issues of health, peace and disarmament in Latin America and in the world. If you have queries, please contact the international student representatives or Ademar Guardado, the regional representative of IPPNW students. More information at www.ippnw-students.org/laconferencia

The 20 years of Chernobyl disaster

The German affiliate of IPPNW is organizing a conference in Bonn, Germany on the occasion of 20th year of Chernobyl accident in 1986. The conference is scheduled for April 7 - 9 and themed "Nuclear Time Bomb - 20 Years after Chernobyl".

The aim of this conference, which will include Russian and Ukrainian scientists, doctors and witnesses as well as countless experts form all over the world, will be to make the connection between the horrible events of April 1986 and the current renaissance of nuclear energy in 2006. Concrete alternatives to nuclear energy will be presented and ways of encouraging politicians not to give in to the pressure of the nuclear industries will be discussed. More information about this conference, which is open and especially interesting for students as well, can be found at www.tschernobylkongress.de.  

Similar event is being organized in London on the same occasion. The even is scheduled for April 22 and the theme is "Anniversary of Chernobyl - The Health and Environmental Legacy".

European students to meet in Italy

European medical students are meeting this May 11-14 in the famous port city of Napoli in Italy. The occasion is the IPPNW conference of European medical students which is themed "What one person can change". The conference will focus on the issues of Nuclear Weapons in Europe, the future of Nuclear Energy, the Health of Refugees and Peace in the Middle East. An installation of Target Napoli, a presentation of Jewish and Arab students from Jerusalem involved with social and peace related programs as well some workshops of Italian medical NGO's like Emergency or MSF will offer students some examples of how to live social responsibility as medical students and doctors.

The details are available at www.ippnw-students.org/Napoli/index.html. If you are interested to come, please contact: ippnwitaly@yahoo.com.
 

South American Student Rep Tours Central America

The regional student representative of IPPNW for South Asia region, Ademar Guardado has recently taken an extensive trip around Central America. During the trip he promoted IPPNW and its mission amongst medical students in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. 

His trip has helped to spread the message of peace in the Central America and he has been able to build on the idea of organizing South American students' conference this October. The details of the report are available at www.ippnw-students.org/SPARC/centralamerica.html where you can read about the people he encountered and the possibilities for future collaboration.