60th Course of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO) “Advancing Technology, Nuclear Weapons Security, and International Stability”, 8-15 January 2023

The 60th Course of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO) will be held in Andalo (Trento, Italy) from 8 to 15 January 2023. The theme of this course is “Advancing Technology, Nuclear Weapons Security, and International Stability”.

Nuclear weapons remain one of the gravest threats to humankind. The 60th ISODARCO course will address that threat, discussing the nuclear policies of the major nuclear powers, and examining the impact that new technologies are having on the security of nuclear weapons and on strategic stability. The main goal is to understand the changing technological context of the current nuclear era, in addition to explore the implications for managing the nuclear order and the impending risks to the nonproliferation regime. Can stability be preserved and maintained in this new technological environment?

Principal Lecturers
Mansoor Ahmed, Senior Fellow, Center for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan
Alexey Arbatov, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, IMEMO; RAS, Moscow, Russia
Nadia Arbatova, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, IMEMO, Moscow, Russia
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Department of Political Science, Oslo University, Norway
Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Secretary General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Sérgio Duarte, President of Pugwash, Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Mark Fitzpatrick, Associate Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS, London, UK
Joan Johnson-Freese, National Security Affairs, Naval War College, Newport, RI, USA
Alexander Kmentt, Austrian diplomat, Research Fellow at King’s College (sab), London, UK
Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, CEIP, Washington, DC, USA
Alessandro Pascolini, University of Padua, Italy
Tariq Rauf, Former Head of Verification & Security Policy, IAEA, Vienna, Austria
Laura Rockwood, Director, Open Nuclear Network, Vienna, Austria
Carlo Trezza, IAI, Rome, Italy; former Ambassador for Disarmament and Chairman of MTCR
Heather Williams, King's College London; Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School, USA
Benjamin Zala, International Relations Department, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

The School is organized with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Raymond Frankel Foundation, and is sponsored by the University of Trento.

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