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Roundtable on confidence-building measures for tactical nuclear weapons
On 16-17 November, IFSH together with the Arms Control Association and the British American Security Information Council organized an international roundtable on „Improving transparency on tactical…
The `Dark´ Side of Normative Argumentation in Counterterrorism
Fromthe 18th to the 19th of November 2011, the Centre for European Peace and Security Studies (ZEUS) at the[nbsp] Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg hosted…
"Global Zero: Perhaps not in my Lifetime"
The program proclaimed by Barack Obama in Prague in 2009 to free the world of nuclear weapons has met with resistance. Although the danger of international proliferation and hence an erosion of the…
Presentation at PRIF-Conference on Global Crime Governance
Patricia Schneider took part in a conference organized by PRIF and the cluster of excellence “Normative Orders” at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main from November 4-5, 2011. She presented the topic…
American Student Group visits IFSH
Patricia Schneider presented the IFSH to an American student group from the Lüneburg Program of the University Studies Abroad Consortium. The visit took place on the 8th of November 2011 within the…
Combating Piracy Week, London
Kerstin Petretto represented the IFSH and the PiraT-project at the Combating Piracy Week in London, organized by Hanson and Wade from 18.-20. October 2011 in London. The conference brought together…
Conference on Piracy at Sea in Malmo
Patricia Schneider represented the IFSH and the PiraT-project at the International Conference on Piracy at Sea (“ICOPAS 2011”) conducted by the World Maritime University together with the…
EU CFSP after Lisbon
On 27 and 28 October 2011 the annual conference of WIFIS (Scientific Forum for International Security) took place in the Military Academy oft the German Armed Forces in Hamburg. The international…
Lecture Steven Pifer
On 2 November Steven Pifer, director of the Arms Control Initiative at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., will give a lecture about "Next Steps in Nuclear Arms Control". Guests are…
Ulrich Kühn received ‘UN Fellowship on Disarmament’
On October 21, IFSH Researcher Ulrich Kühn was awarded a ‘UN Fellowship on Disarmament’. He accepted the award in a ceremony conducted by the UN High Representative on Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Sergio…