The Long Roads to Peace
Proceedings of the Forty-eighth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Jurica, Mexico 29 September-4 October 1998

In this text, scientists focus on the crucial role of science in the transition from a culture of war to the construction of peace based on a capacity to anticipate and prevent destructive conflicts. The subject matter includes the progress and prospects for a nuclear-weapon-free world.

In this text, scientists who are pre-eminent in their fields focus on the crucial role of science in the transition away from a culture of war towards the construction of peace based on a capacity to anticipate and prevent destructive conflicts. The subject matter, wide-ranging and of great concern to people everywhere, includes the progress and prospects for a nuclear-weapon-free world; non-nuclear threats to peace and security; the building of legitimate world institutions; conflict resolution and the construction of peace; the local and global environmental dimensions of peace; the health hazards of nuclear chemical and biological weapons; and the interactions between health problems and poverty.