SDI and DESY
The Strategic Defense Initiative, started by the US government, has initiated a lot of protest from sceintists, and particulary particle physicists. Attempts were made to involve also DESY into the "Deutsches Strategie Forum".
A report in "Der Spiegel" from 1986 shows a list of participants in the "Deutsches Strategie Forum".
A signature campaign was started at DESY, with...
Science4Peace
The Science4Peace Forum is a forum for discussion among scientists to promote science as a driver for peace.
We have regular meeting (every 2nd week).
If you are interested, send an email to hannesjung@t-online.de
FRIEDA
FRIEDA (FRiedensInitiativeEinigerDesyAner, Peace Initiative of DESY employees)
Public Events:
31. January 2002: Internationaler Terrorismus und asymmetrische Konflikte (Dr G. Neuneck, Institut fur Friedensforschuing,ISFH, Hamburg)
July 2004: Discussions on FRIEDA/HaNaWi campaigns and European Union constitution
1. June 2006: The conflict about Iran' Nuclear Programme (Dr....
Petition against travel restrictions
Petition against travel restriction of science colleagues
Working in international scientific research labs we have since long good relations to our colleagues from different countries: even more, it was always one of the very positive and important aspects in our field, that we could talk and collaborate across any border and across any ideology.
Since spring...
Not in our Name
Not-In-Our-Name - petition of scientists against Iraq war
Not-In-Our-Name was a campaign we started in 2002-2003 against the Iraq war.
The idea to this campaign I got during a visit in New York in autumn 2002, where I found a little book with this title.
Here is link to the original web-page.
A short documentation of the campaign an be found here
Peace Activities
Here several activities on Science4Peace are listed.