>From: "aiaif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Heikki Sipila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: U Sinha Mahapatra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PRIZE FOR INDIAN ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS (fwd) > > >> >> >> ........................................................... >> * Dr. U. S. Mahapatra * >> * Department of Physical Chemistry. * >> * Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science * >> * E: mail- [EMAIL PROTECTED] * >> * Phone: 091 033 4733542 (O) * >> * 091 033 4150484 (R) * >> * Fax: 091 033 4732805 (O) * >> ............................................................ >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:39:36 +0200 >> From: Harsh Kapoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: (foil-l) PRIZE FOR INDIAN ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS >> >> FYI the following release from International Peace Bureau >(http://www.ipb.org) >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> >> PRESS COMMUNIQUE - Embargoed until Tuesday October 10, 9.00 am >> >> >> PEACE BUREAU TO AWARD MACBRIDE PRIZE TO INDIAN ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS >> >> >> Oct 6,2000, Geneva. >> >> On October 13, the International Peace Bureau will award its annual peace >> prize, named after its former President, the Irish Nobel laureate Sean >> MacBride, to two Indian peace activists who have been at the forefront of >> the international campaign against the nuclearisation of South Asia. The >> presentation of hand-crafted silver medals will be the high point of the >> IPB Triennial Conference, entitled The Globalization of Peace, to be held >> at the H�tel de Ville in Nanterre, Paris from 12-14 October. >> >> Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik are both writers and journalists, and >> fellows of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. They are joint authors >> of a recent full-length study of the S.Asian nuclear situation 'New >Nukes: >> India, Pakistan and Global Disarmament' (Interlink Books, Northampton, >> Mass, and Oxford, UK, 2000); published in the South Asian Region as >'South >> Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and the Future of Global >> Disarmament' (Oxford University Press, New Delhi and Karachi). Earlier, >> they co-authored 'Testing Times: the Global Stake in a Nuclear Test Ban' >> (Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala, 1996). >> >> Bidwai and Vanaik have been key figures in the Movement in India for >> Nuclear Disarmament (MIND), which, together with many other civil society >> organisations, has articulated public outcry in the region against the >> decisions in May 1998 to test nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan. Soon >> afterwards the upsurge in fighting in the Kargil district of Kashmir >caused >> many to fear the escalation of the longstanding conflict into a nuclear >> armageddon. This risk remains a real one, and the world's geo-politics has >> been definitively transformed. The 1999 military coup in Pakistan has >> reassured neither the general public in the region nor the wider >> international community. >> >> Bidwai and Vanaik have followed this issue for many years and have also >> been active in international disarmament networks such as Abolition 2000. >> They are involved, with other activists, in organising India's >forthcoming >> broad-based National Convention for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace in New >> Delhi on November 11 to 13. The IPB salutes their persistence, commitment >> and scholarly attention to detail which have earned their work wide >> acclaim. They have been called 'two of India's most courageous radical >> journalists' (Tariq Ali, The Guardian). >> >> Previous winners of the MacBride Prize have included Mordechai Vanunu >> (Israel), The Committee of Soldiers Mothers (Russia), and John Hume >> (N.Ireland). >> >> Bidwai and/or Vanaik will be available for interview during their time in >> Paris. Contact : +33-1-4209-2378 or IPB Secretariat in Geneva. >> >> French translation of this text available on request from IPB. More >> details of IPB below: >> >> IPB is the oldest and most comprehensive of the international peace >> federations, covering nuclear disarmament, small arms, landmines, >conflict >> resolution, human rights and much more. IPB is one of main organisers of >> the Hague Appeal for Peace and its Global Campaign for Peace Education. >> With 20 international and 174 national/local member organisations in 53 >> countries, IPB brings together pacifists and women's, youth, labour, >> religious, political and professional bodies. Founded: 1892. Nobel Peace >> Prize 1910. Thirteen IPB officers have won the Nobel Prize. Current >> President: Maj Britt Theorin M.E.P. Details. www.ipb.org >> >> [E-mail address for IPB is: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] >> >> ---------------------------- >> >> Extracts from reviews of Bidwai and Vanaik's 'New Nukes' book: >> >> Not since E.P. Thompson has the illogic, inhumanity, and immense >> immorality of the nuclear status quo been so brilliantly laid bare. - The >> Independent, London. >> >> >> 'I have never seen a better account of the weaknesses, perils and >> immorality of >> security policies based on threats of mass destruction.' -- Bruce Kent, >> CND, UK. >> >> 'This is a book that aims high and succeeds.' -- Peace News, London. >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ** To unsubscribe, mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the sole line : ** >> ** unsubscribe foil-l ** >> ** To subscribe, or for assistance, e-mail ** >> ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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