23rd Isodarco Summer Course

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

UNIVERSITY OF ROME "TOR VERGATA"
UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
ISTITUTO CNUCE - C.N.R.
ISTITUTO TRENTINO DI CULTURA
OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI - Rovereto
FORUM TRENTINO PER LA PACE - Provincia Autonoma di Trento
UNION OF SCIENTISTS FOR DISARMAMENT - Section of Trento

Italian Pugwash Group
ISODARCO Founded in 1966

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS

23rd SUMMER COURSE TRENTO - ITALY 3-13 AUGUST, 2002


"CYBERWAR, NETWAR AND THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS: REAL THREATS AND
VIRTUAL MYTHS"


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 disarmament and 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.
Cyberwar, Netwar and the Revolution in Military Affairs have given rise to a
lively discussion in political and military circles in the last few years.
Issues of major importance are: the relation between computers and regional
defense; the threat of "cyberterrorism" as well as "cyberwar"; emerging forms
of group organization like "networks" and how information technology supports
them; the impact of information technology developments on military doctrine
and organization of military forces.
Of comparable importance is the issue of the possible implications on civil
society and civil liberties possibly brought about by counter-measures to
cyberwar and netwar.


PRINCIPAL LECTURERS:

RALF BENDRATH,
Free University of Berlin (DE)

DMITRY CHERESHKIN,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, (RUSSIA)

SIMON DAVIES,
London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE (UK)

ALEXANDER V. FEDOROV

NEIL FISHER,
Independent Information Assurance Consultant, London, UK

SEYMOUR GOODMAN,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (USA)

AHMED S. HASHIM,
Naval War College, New Port, RI (USA)

LI HUA,
Institute for Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing (CHINA)

ALEXANDER KAFFKA,
The Avenue Magazine, Moscow (RUSSIA)

ANDREY KRUTSKIKH,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow (RUSSIA)

STEPHANIE LANZ,
Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, Arlington, VA (USA)

ARMANDO MARTINEZ,
New School University, New York (USA)

OLIVIER MINKWITZ,
Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt (DE)

PETER G. NEUMANN,
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (USA)

KEVIN A. O'BRIEN,
RAND Europe, Cambridge (UK)

ERIC ROBERTS,
Stanford University, CA (USA)

GEORG SCHOEFBAENKER,
Austrian information center for security policy & arms control, Linz (O)

VITALY N. TSYGICHKO,
Russian Academy Sciences, Moscow (RUSSIA)

MOSHE Y. VARDI,
Rice University, Houston, TX (USA)

ADOLFO VILLAFIORITA
IRST, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Trento, (IT)

CINDY WILLIAMS,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA)


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) Letters of application should arrive not later than June 3rd, 2002 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, I-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 June 14th, 2002.

E) Participants are requested to arrive at Trento any time on August 3 and
leave in the morning of August 13, 2002.

F) The nominal admission fee which includes attendance, accommodation and full
board is Euro 200.00 (approximately US$ 180) and Euro 130.00 (approximately US$
120) for students without a salary up to the age of 26 who ask for it.
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 Euro 50 extra for each person.

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

H) The Course will be held at Istituto Salesiano Maria Ausiliatrice, Via
Barbacovi 22, 38100 Trento, Italy. Tel. (+39) 0461 981265 and Fax (+39) 0461
981972.

I) A limited number of family members can be accommodated at the Center. Room
and board for each member is Euro 300.00 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 applications as
soon as possible.

J) Participants wishing to introduce a seminar should enclose a short abstract
of their proposed contribution in their application. The Director of the School
will reserve some 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. More information on the School can be found on the Isodarco web page at
the following address: www.isodarco.it

GARY
CHAPMAN
CARLO SCHAERF
DIEGO LATELLA

Directors of the Course Director of the School