[Disarmo] Fwd: "INTERNATIONAL SECURITY IN THE EVOLVING POLITICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT"

[Elio Pagani <eliopaxnowar at gmail.com>]

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Da: "Carlo Schaerf" <carlo.schaerf at roma2.infn.it>
Data: 12 mag 2017 14:27
Oggetto: "INTERNATIONAL SECURITY IN THE EVOLVING POLITICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT"
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Cc: <carlo.schaerf at roma2.infn.it>

Dear Friend,

Enclosed is the information relative to the 25th Isodarco Summer Course, the first in Famagusta (Cyprus) (www.isodarco.it). We hope that you will find this information of interest and you will join us in this intellectually challenging experience. We shall appreciate very much if you could pass this information on to your friends and colleagues, forward it to your mailing list and post on your bulletin board the poster that you find at:

http://www.isodarco.it/courses/famagusta17/poster_Famagusta17.pdf

Thank you for your collaboration and best personal regards. 

Carlo Schaerf

25^th ISODARCO Summer Course on:
"INTERNATIONAL SECURITY IN THE EVOLVING POLITICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT"

FAMAGUSTA - Cyprus
10 - 15 July 2017
Director of the Course: Aylin Gürzel (Department of Political Science and International Relations, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus)

Description

Changing dynamics in the new political landscape and scientific discoveries and technological advances are producing a new qualitative arm race, which is changing the battlefield and the nature of war. The New Cold War (Cold War II) refers to a renewed state of military and political tension and the potential of a renewed arms race between opposing geostrategic and geopolitical power-blocs. In this context, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction present new risks and challenges. Developments in artificial intelligence, robotics, computers and networks suggest new forms of warfare that are being tested already in several local and asymmetric conflicts with new problem of attribution and proper responses. Unmanned weapons with independent decision making capabilities might appear in actual combat posing new moral and legal dilemmas to the fractured international community. This 25^th ISODARCO Summer Course aims at understanding this novel situation and will try to examine what kind of Arms Control Regimes could be studied and introduced.

PRINCIPAL LECTURERS

Francesco Calogero, Former Secretary-General of the Pugwash Conferences on Sciences and World Affairs

Giampiero Giacomello, Department of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

John Hart, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme, SIPRI, Sweden

Steven Miller, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Alessandro Pascolini, University of Padova, Italy

Tariq Rauf, Head, Verification and Security Policy Coordination, Office reporting to the Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

Tom Sauer, University of Antwerpen, Belgium

Carlo Schaerf, Isodarco, Rome, Italy

Dahlia Scheindlin, Political Consultant

Francesca Silvestri, University of Nottingham, UK

William Tobey, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. We suggest that you download the application form from the Eastern Mediterranean University webpage (link) and send it directly to aylin.gurzel at emu.edu.tr AND carlo.schaerf at gmail.com or if you face problems contact the same email address. The payment of the tuition fee should be made upon the approval of your application. Due to the limited quota we would advise that you pay the tuition fee immediately after the approval.
   
   
2. Applications should be submitted with the following information, compulsory even for those who have previously attended Isodarco sessions: full name; date and place of birth; gender; present full address (including e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, if available); nationality; degree and/or other academic qualifications; current professional activities and work address; list of publications and fields of interest; in lieu of publications, a letter of recommendation from a professor or a scholar in the field.
   
   
3. Applicants who need a visa to come to Turkey should apply to Eastern Mediterranean University by May 31^st, 2017, indicate in their application to which Turkish Consulate they intend to apply and apply for the visa immediately after being accepted to attend the School.
   
   
4. Applicants who do not need a visa should apply by May 25^th, 2017.
   Applications will be considered by the Organizing Committee on the basis of the information submitted.
   
   
5. All applicants will be informed of the Committee's decision as soon as possible and before June 10^th, 2017 (those who need a visa: June 1^st).
   
   
6. Participants are requested to arrive at Famagusta, Cyprus any time on Sunday, July 9^th, 2017 and leave in the morning of Monday, July 17^th, 2017. The course ends on Friday afternoon.
   
   
7. The registration fee, which includes attendance and accommodation, is 500.00 Euros. A reduced fee of 300.00 Euros is applied to students with no income born in 1989 or after and to participants from Countries with foreign currency problems. If you wish to be considered for a reduced fee you must explain in your application why you qualify for it. Participants will be housed in double or triple rooms. The registration fee for single rooms, if requested and available, will be 800.00 Euros; participants asking to share a room with somebody in particular, if this is possible, will be charged an additional 50.00 Euros per person.
   
   
8. Students can be accommodated at the luxurious dorms in the campus.
   
   
9. The school has no funds with which to help meet traveling and participating expenses.
   
   
10. The Course will be held at Rauf Raif Denktas Hall, Famagusta, via 10 Mersin, Cyprus. (link)
    
    
11. Participants wishing to submit a paper for seminar consideration should enclose a short abstract of their proposed contribution in their application. The Director of the School will reserve some limited time for seminars considered particularly relevant to the program of the Course.
    
    
12. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to introduce any necessary change to the program.
    
    
13. The participant fee can be paid with a bank draft to
    ISODARCO Summer School (It is very important to state this otherwise we will not receive your payment!)
    IŞ BANKASI
    FAMAGUSTA BRANCH
    SWIFT: ISBKTRISXXX
    IBAN: TR17 0006 4000 0026 8200 7755 04
    
    
14. Your admission will be confirmed only after we have received the scanned receipt that mentions ISODARCO Summer School. Please scan the payment receipt and send it to Aylin Gürzel Aka at aylin.gurzel at emu.edu.tr
    
    

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    If you wish to receive any additional information on the subject, please, send an E-mail to: aylin.gurzel at emu.edu.tr

This information is sent out twice a year. If you wish to be cancelled from our mailing list send a message with "cancel" in the subject line to: info at isodarco.it .

-- 
Carlo Schaerf, Professor of Physics, President of Isodarco

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Carlo Schaerf, Professor of Physics