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ISODARCO Summer School

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Rauf Raif Denktas Culture and Congress Center

Organised by Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Political Science and International Relations in collaboration with ISODARCO (International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts) in Italy; a Summer School titled “The International Security in a Rapidly Evolving Technological Environment” will be held for the first time in TRNC. The said Summer School will be taking place between 10 – 17 July 2017 at Rauf Raif Denktaş Culture and Congress Centre.

Organised annually in Pugwash, ISODARCO is an international winter school of 24 years and with EMU’s initiatives specialists from the prestigious universities of the USA, Italy, Sweden, Austria, England, Harvard, Bologna, Rome, Padova, Trento  and Nottingham will be lecturing various courses in diverse fields during the Summer School.

The purpose of the Summer School is to analyse disarmament, regimes of arms control and mechanisms to develop a further understanding of the ongoing developments in this field.

The said Summer School will commence on Monday, 10 July 2017, at 09:00 a.m. with the opening speeches of ISODARCO Chair and Course Director Carlo Schaerf and EMU Department of Political Science and International Relations Academic Staff Member Asst. Prof. Dr. G. Aylin Gürzel Aka. 

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Scientific discoveries and technological advances are changing the nature of armed conflict and are contributingto a qualitatively new arms race. The New Cold War (Cold War II) refers to a renewed state of military and political tension and the potential for renewed military competition between geopolitical power-blocs. The proliferation and modernization of nuclear weapon stockpiles and the continued use of chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria present new risks and challenges to the international system. Developments in artificial intelligence (AI), lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) and command and control networks suggest new forms of warfare that are already being tested in several local and asymmetric conflicts with new problems of attribution of responsibility and proper responses. Unmanned weapons platforms combined with semi-autonomous/autonomous decision making capabilities are being introduced on the battlefield posing new moral and legal dilemmas to the fractured international community.

The 25th ISODARCO Summer Course aims at better understanding these and related developments, including by analyzing disarmament and arms control regimes and mechanisms.

Principal Lecturers:

  • Carlo Schaerf (Director of the School/ ISODARCO, Rome Italy)
  • Aylin Gürzel (Department of Political Science and International Relation, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus)
  • Francesco Calogero (Former Secretary-General of PUGWASH, Conference on Science and World Affairs, Italy)
  • Giampiero Giacomello, (Department of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy) John Hart (SIPRI Disarmament Programme, Sweden)
  • Steven Miller (Director, International Security Program, Member of the Board,
  • Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, United States) Alessandro Pascolini (University of Padova, Italy)
  • Tariq Rauf (Director, Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme Vienna Austria)
  • Tom Sauer (University of Antwerpen, Belgium)
  • Carlo Schaerf (Director of the School/ ISODARCO, Rome Italy)
  • Dahlia Scheindlin (Political Consultant)
  • Francesca Silvestri (University of Nottingham, UK)
  • William Tobey (Director, US-Russian Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, Senior Fellow at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, United States)

For details please visit http://fbe.emu.edu.tr/en/about-us/news-events-announcements/announcements?pid=74&t=isodarco-summer-school