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THE LONG ROADS TO PEACE Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Jurica, Mexico, 29 September - 4 October 1998 CONTENTS FRONT MATTER i Part I. Statements and Reports from the Conference STATEMENT OF THE PUGWASH COUNCIL 21 A Special Statement by The Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – THE IMPASSE IN NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT 29 REPORT ON WORKING GROUP 1: A NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE WORLD 31 REPORT ON WORKING GROUP 2: NON-NUCLEAR THREATS TO SECURITY 36 REPORT ON WORKING GROUP 3: BUILDING LEGITIMATE INSTITUTIONS FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER: CHALLENGES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 41 REPORT ON WORKING GROUP 4: CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF PEACE 44 REPORT ON WORKING GROUP 5: THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF PEACE 48 REPORT ON WORKING GROUP 6: PUBLIC HEALTH AND PEACE 54 Part II. Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE OPENING PLENARY SESSION 59 Proceedings of the Opening Plenary Session 60 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND PLENARY SESSION 77 Part II. Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions – Part A: Conflict Negotiation and Mediation: Internal and International Dimensions CHIAPAS: POLITICS OR WAR? Raul Benitez-Manaut 78 THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION AND PROSPECTS FOR STABILITY IN SOUTH AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Marie Muller 93 Part II. Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions – Part B: Sovereignty and Interdependence in the Caribbean Region SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN THE CARIBBEAN REGION Claude Heller 98 SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN THE CARIBBEAN REGION Orlando Fundora Lopez 102 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL PLENARY SESSION 105 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD PLENARY SESSION 106 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH PLENARY SESSION 107 Part II. Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions – Part B: Sovereignty and Interdependence in the Caribbean Region: Impasse in Nuclear Disarmament NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: IS THIS AS GOOD AS IT GETS? Miguel Marin-Bosch 108 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLOSING PLENARY SESSION 110 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Michael Atiyah 111 Part III. Papers Submitted to the Conference – Working Group 1: A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONRY AND OUR CIVILIZATION Francesco Calogero 119 RUSSIAN NUCLEAR POLICY AND ZIGZAGS OF NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT Alexander I. Nikitin 127 INDIA'S NUCLEARIZATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR NON-PROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT Jasjit Singh 134 NEW DANGERS TO WORLD SECURITY Joseph Rotblat 140 PERSPECTIVES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING THE START PROCESS Taina Susiluoto 142 VERIFYING NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: A ROLE FOR AWE ALDERMASTON Tom Milne 145 NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE ZONES AND NON-PROLIFERATION Olga M. Sukovic 151 THE EFFECT OF DEVELOPMENT OF BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Youpin Li and Min Liu 154 Part III. Papers Submitted to the Conference – Working Group 2: Non-Nuclear Threats to Security PSYCHO-BIO-SOCIAL CONTROL OF AGGRESSION Jose Manuel Andreu 159 OF MYTHS AND MIGRATION Hussein Solomon and Charl Schutte 161 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOCIETY Alison Jamieson 166 LIGHT WEAPONS AND CIVIL VIOLENCE: POLICY OPTIONS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael Klare 173 TECHNOLOGY AND THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE David Andersen and Anna Moden 179 CONTROL OF THE ILLICIT TRADE IN SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS Graciela Uribe de Lozano 182 PROBLEMS IN CONTROLLING THE TRADE IN LIGHT WEAPONS Tara Kartha 187 A NEW APPROACH: THE SIrUS PROJECT (WHICH WEAPONS CAUSE "SUPERFLUOUS INJURY OR UNNECESSARY SUFFERING?") Dominique Loye 193 PUGWASH, ENVIRONMENT AND CONFLICT – A SRI LANKAN PERSPECTIVE D. L. O. Mendis 198 Part III. Papers Submitted to the Conference – Working Group 3: Building Legitimate Institutions for a New World Order: Challenges for the 21st Century OUR WORLD: A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT Angel Ruiz 207 LEGITIMATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Ivo Slaus 219 AN INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE? John Avery 221 NATION STATES AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Sarah Sewall 224 FROM NEEDS TO RIGHTS: THE CHALLENGE OF IMPLEMENTING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS Bas De Gaay Fortman and Berma Klein Goldewijk 228 BUILDING PLURALISM THROUGH A PARTICIPATIVE COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE Hugo Estrella 257 THE WAY TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUM Ranko Petkovic 262 INFORMATION FUTURE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT Stefan Luby 268 MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES FOR UN PEACE OPERATIONS A. Walter Dorn 271 ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS AND CHINA Zhiqiong Xie 285 Part III. Papers Submitted to the Conference – Working Group 4: Conflict Resolution and the Construction of Peace THE DIALOGUE OF SAN ANDRES, CHIAPAS, AND THE NON-RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT Catalina Eibenschutz 293 THE ROLE OF CONTEXT CHANGE FOR SUCCESSFUL CONFLICT MEDIATION: THE CASE OF THE GUATEMALAN PEACE PROCESS Bjørn Brunstad 299 THE GUATEMALAN PEACE PROCESS: A RECENT EXPERIENCE OF MEDIATION FOR DISPUTE SETTLEMENT María Elena Montero-Cabrera 302 CONFLICT MEDIATION AS IT RELATES TO THE PALESTINIAN ISRAELI SITUATION Gabriel Baramki 305 ETHNIC IDENTITY AND BORDER DISPUTES IN THE BALKANS Nansen Behar 307 THE INTERNATIONAL ACTORS AND THE RE-DEFINITION OF GOALS IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE Radovan Vukadinović 317 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Bengt Broms 320 GLOBALIZATION AND ORGANIZED CRIME AS A PROBLEM FOR SOCIETIES IN TRANSITION: A GERMAN PERSPECTIVE Ulrich Albrecht 326 REPORT ON THE GLOBAL EFFORT TO ELIMINATE ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES Lynne Hopkins and Martin M. Kaplan 331 Part III. Papers Submitted to the Conference – Working Group 5: The Environmental Dimensions of Peace HYDROGEN - A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY CARRIER Adele Buckley 341 MITIGATING CARBON EMISSIONS WHILE ADVANCING NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES: THE CASE OF MEXICO Omar R. Masera 343 THE SPECIAL ROLE OF THE MANGROVE FOREST - CORAL COMMUNITY COMBINATION AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING Onaney Muniz 350 INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS ON GLOBAL WARMING AND THE CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM Luiz Pinguelli Rosa 352 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FOR PEACE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN Aharon Zohar 357 WATER SECURITY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Nola Dippenaar 360 PROMOTING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW CAN PUGWASH CONTRIBUTE? Owen Greene 364 UNDERSTANDING THE FUTURE George Marx 369 Part III. Papers Submitted to the Conference – Working Group 6: Public Health and Peace WAR IS BIOLOGICALLY AVOIDABLE J. Martin Ramirez 375 POVERTY, DISEASE AND WAR John Avery 380 HEALTH EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS Martin Kaplan 384 The Effects of War on Children Eva-Jane Haden 387 AN UNHEALTHY EFFECT OF WAR: THE PTSD J. MARTIN RAMIREZ 390 INTERACTIONS OF HEALTH PROBLEMS AND POVERTY Martin Kaplan 397 CHILD ABUSE: A CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM Nestor Acosta Tieles 407 POVERTY, PUBLIC HEALTH AND PEACE: A SOUTHERN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE Ramaranka A. Mogotlane 413 REFLECTIONS ON POPULATION, FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN CONDITIONS OF CONFLICT AND INSTABILITY: THE CASE OF PALESTINE Rita Giacaman 417 EXAMPLES OF SUCCESSFUL COOPERATION BETWEEN INDUSTRIALIZED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH FIELD Friedrich W. Schmahl and Doris Braun 421 PUBLIC HEALTH AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ORGANIZATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE Dzenana Rezakovic 426 NOT ONLY SCIENTISTS, BUT ALSO RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS Graham C. M. Watt 430 BACK MATTER 437 Back

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