Isodarco Winter Course

[Isodarco <isodarco at roma2.infn.it>]

UNIVERSITY OF ROME "TOR VERGATA"
OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI,  Rovereto
UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
FORUM TRENTINO PER LA PACE, Autonomous Province of Trento
USPID - Sezione di Trento


Italian Pugwash Group
ISODARCO - INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS
Founded in 1966


18th WINTER COURSE
"CONSTRUCTING SECURITY IN EUROPE AFTER MADRID"
9-16 JANUARY 2005  ANDALO (TRENTO) - ITALY


ISODARCO has been organizing residential courses on global security since
1966. The courses are intended for people already having a professional
interest in the problems of international conflicts, or for those who would
like to play a more active and technically competent role in this field.
The courses have an interdisciplinary nature, and their subject matters
extend from the technical and scientific side of the problems to their
sociological and political implications.
This will be the fifth time an ISODARCO course will focus on the problem of
Non-State Violence.  Courses on this topic were organized in 1974 and 1978
when Non-State or Sub-State violence had the limited attention of
specialists. Now, after the dramatic events of the years 2001 and 2002,
Isodarco has returned to the discussion of these problems organizing the
2003 and 2004 winter courses.

PRINCIPAL LECTURERS:

JURGEN ALTMANN
Experimentelle Physik III, Universität Dortmund, Germany

PETER ANDREAS
Political Science and International Studies, Brown University, Providence
RI, USA

ALEXEI ARBATOV
Center for International Defence, Institute of World Economy and
International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow, Russia

NADIA ARBATOVA
Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow, Russia

GUNNAR ARBMAN
Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm, Sweden

THOMAS  BIERSTEKER
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence
RI, USA

DAVID CARLTON
Dept. of Politics & International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

MALCOLM DANDO
Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

NICOLE DEITELHOFF
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany

ANTONIO DONINI
Feinstein International Famine Center, Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts University, Somerville MA, USA

MATTHEW EVANGELISTA
Department of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, US

GIAMPIERO GIACOMELLO
Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni e Storia, Università di Bologna, Italy

DENNIS  M. GORMLEY
Monterey Institute of International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation
Studies, Washington DC, USA

JULIAN LINDLEY-FRENCH
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, CH

ROBERT NURICK
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International
Studies, Washington DC, USA

FERNANDO REINARES
Department of Political Science, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Confirmations are expected from additional eminent scholars who have been
invited to lecture at the School. The course will be articulated in formal
lectures, seminars offered by the participants, round tables and general
open discussions.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

A. English will be the working language of the School. There will be
approximately 60 participants. They are expected to attend all lectures and
seminars.

B. Applications should be submitted with the following information that is
compulsory also for those who have previously attended:
Full name, date and place of birth, gender, full address (including e-mail
address, telephone and fax numbers if available). Present nationality.
Degree and/or other academic qualifications. Present professional
activities and work address. Publication list and field of interest. In
lieu of publications, a letter of recommendation from a professor or a
scholar in the field. No special application form is required.

C. Applications should arrive not later than November 29th, 2004 and should
be addressed to the Director of the School:
Prof. CARLO SCHAERF
Department of Physics
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
Tel.: (+39) 06 72594560/1 -- Fax: (+39) 06 2040309
E-mail: isodarco at roma2.infn.it

D. Applications will be considered by the Organizing Committee on the basis
of the information submitted. All the applicants will be informed of the
Committee's decision as soon as possible but not later than December 13th,
2004.

E. Participants are requested to arrive at Andalo any time on Sunday,
January 9th, 2005 and leave in the morning of Sunday, January 16th, 2005

F. The nominal admission fee which includes attendance, accommodation and
full board is Euro 250,00. A reduced fee of Euro 150,00 is applied to
students without a salary up to the age of 26 and participants from
Countries with foreign currency problems. Participants will be housed in
double or triple rooms. The admission fee for single rooms, if requested
and available, will be Euro 400,00; participants asking to share a room
with somebody in particular, if this is possible, will be charged an
additional Euro 50,00 for each person.

G. The school is unable to provide any contribution towards travelling
expenses.

H. The Course will be held at Hotel Gruppo Brenta, via Strigole 1, 38010
Andalo (Trento), Italy. Tel.(+39) 0461 585813 and Fax (+39) 0461 585269.

I. A limited number of family members can be accommodated at the Hotel
Gruppo Brenta. Room and board for each member is Euro 350,00 for the entire
period. Admission of families is limited and will be examined on an
individual basis. Participants wishing to bring their families are
requested to submit their application as soon as possible.

J. Participants wishing to introduce a seminar should enclose a short
abstract of their proposed contribution in their application. The Directors
of the School will reserve some limited time for seminars considered
particularly relevant to the programme of the Course.

K. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to introduce any necessary
changes to the programme.

L. Please mention in your application if you need a visa, indicating to
which Italian Consulate you intend to apply. As it takes some time to
receive a visa we urge participants requiring it to apply to the School as
early as possible and to apply for the visa immediately after being
accepted to attend the School. Please, note that the concession of visas is
at the discretion of the Italian Consulates Officers and Isodarco, as an
NGO, is not able to influence their decision. It is the responsibility of
participants to provide the Italian Consulates with evidence that they
intend to return to their own countries at the end of the course.
Additional information on the School can be found at: www.isodarco.it


Director of the School
Carlo Schaerf, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy

Directors of the Course
Catherine Kelleher, CNWS, Naval War College, Newport RI, USA
Judith Reppy, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA