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CONTENTS of WNII No. 38/2001

• Membership and Projects' News:
  • New INESAP Information Bulletin available
  • David Krieger: Reflections on the Terrorist Attack
  • Further reference updates on 11 September terror attacks
  • New Zealand: Engineers for Social Responsibility (ESR) Newsletter September 2001
• Sustainable Development:
  • 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development: Opinion papers update
  • 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development: Webportal
• Briefings:
  • Self-Determination Crisis Watch listserv
• INES Web- and Email Service

MEMBERSHIP AND PROJECTS' NEWS

New INESAP Information Bulletin available http://www.inesap.org/bulletin18/bulletin18.htm  

"Moving Beyond Missile Defense" is the main theme of the new INESAP Information Bulletin #18, September 2001. As a pdf-formatted version, you can get it from the URL indicated above. The new edition has the following contents:

• Moving Beyond Missile Defense:
  • Project Information
  • Conclusions of MBMD Project Workshop
  • Moving Beyond Missile Defense Search for Alternatives (Juergen Scheffran)
  • MTCR Draft Code of Conduct
  • UNGA Adopts Resolution on "Missiles" (Merav Datan)
  • Is There a Missile Threat? (M.V.Ramana)
  • Nuclear Deterrence, Missile Defenses, and Global Stability (David Krieger)
  • Russian Perceptions of US-Russian Security Relations (Eugene Miasnikov)
  • Chinese Perspective on NMD (Dingli Shen)
  • Missile Proliferation and Missile Defenses in East Asia (Wade L. Huntley)
  • BMD Systems and Non-Proliferation Alternatives (Bahig Nassar)
  • The Missile Race in the Middle East (Reuven Pedatzur)
  • Practical Remarks on Missile Defense and Space Weapons (Hiromichi Umebayashi)
  • Star Wars and the Global War System (Alice Slater)
  • Aim for a Campaign: Linking Past, Present, and Future (Jacqueline Cabasso)
• Defense, Deterrence, or Disarmament?:
  • Bush, Missiles, and Defenses (Otfried Nassauer)
  • The US, Europe, and the Perspectives for Arms Control (Götz Neuneck)
  • European Missile Defence: New Emphasis, New Roles (Mark Bromley)
  • Missile Defense Two Appeals
  • Abolition 2000 Report Card for 2000 (Janet Bloomfield, Pamela S. Meidell)
  • Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Two Declarations
  • Scientific Experts for Complete Nuclear Disarmament (Martin B. Kalinowski)
  • Principal Points on Nuclear Abolition (Middle Powers Initiative)
• Space Without Weapons:
  • Multilateral Approaches to Preventing the Weaponization of Space (Rebecca Johnson)
  • Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (Statement by G.E. Mamedov)
  • China Warns CD on Consequences of Weaponization of Outer Space
  • (Un-) Peaceful Use of Space (Regina Hagen)
• News:
  • INESAP Annual Report 2000
  • Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones Uppsala Declaration
  • Scientists' and Engineers' Pledge (Eryn MacDonald)
  • Summer Symposium 2001 in Berlin
  • New Publications
• Supplement: MBMD Workshop Summary

David Krieger: Reflections on the Terrorist Attacks
(Dr David Krieger is President of the US-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, an INES member organisation, and Vice-Chair of INES)

The plunging airliners, commandeered by terrorists, ripped gaping holes in more than the towers of the World Trade Center. They ripped away the veneer of security that we believed surrounded us. We in America can never again feel secure in the same way.

We were vulnerable before the hurtling planes crashed into the World Trade Center, but we never stopped to think that this could happen to us. Now we understand our vulnerability, and our lives will never be the same.

What madmen seek to kill us? Are the plans for the next attacks already set in motion? Are there more suicidal phantoms, coiled like cobras, in our midst? We remain apprehensive with good reason.

Some Americans are calling for vengeance. But we are fighting phantoms, and our military power is not sufficient to assure an end to future threats. It will not be so easy to find these terrorists and bring them to justice.

The best of America is on display. Heroism abounds. Americans are coming together to mourn their losses, to grieve, to comfort and care for each other, and to begin rebuilding. All Americans have a piece of that gaping hole in their hearts.

Justice must be done, and we need to find those responsible for the crimes committed. But our response to those crimes must be legal under international law, moral in not causing the deaths and injuries of more innocent people, and thoughtful in asking why this has occurred and what can be done to end the cycle of violence.

Vengeance may reassure some that our power matters. But vengeance will not protect us. It will only create more who despair and hate, more who are ready to rip at the heart of America.

Until all are secure, none will be. The violence could grow even worse because the weapons in our world can kill so massively. Nuclear, radiological, chemical and biological weapons all hover around us. Will we take the necessary steps to end these threats?

There are deeper issues that we must explore. These include questions about who we are and what we are doing in the world and to the world. In the end, our only way out is to climb through the hole in our hearts until we find our full humanity.

The only way we can mend our hearts is to recognize our oneness with all humanity. For better or worse, we share a common shadow and a common fate. We cannot change the past, but we can begin building a more peaceful and decent world today.

Further reference updates on 11 September terror attacks

• Website references
  • The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has dedicated a section of its website to present alternative views on the Terrorist Attacks and Ideas for Action to empower citizens to voice their opinions and call for a US response to those crimes that is legal under international law, moral in not causing the deaths and injuries of more innocent people, and thoughtful in asking why this has occurred and what can be done to end the cycle of violence: http://www.wagingpeace.org  
  • Active Resistance to the Roots of War (ARROW) has initiated a new email group for people wanting to prevent/limit US/UK military retaliation for the destruction in New York and Washington. If you would like to join, please go to: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Aftermath-11-September-2001/join
  • Petition urging President Bush and other world leaders to avoid war as a response to the terrorist attacks (submitted by Alla Yaroshinskaya and Hartwig Spitzer): http://home.uchicago.edu/~dhpicker/petition
  • Sign-on letter by the US-based Foreign Policy In Focus (joint project of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Interhemispheric Resource Center): http://www.fpif.org/form_terrorsignon.html  
  • "Justice Not Vengeance" and other statements: http://www.thepetitionsite.com
• Available from the WNII editor upon request:
  • Great many thanks to WNII reader Dr Georg Schoefbaenker, Austria, who is providing an incredible and useful! - amount of Anglo-American newspaper bits on a daily basis.
  • United Nation Security Council Resolution [S/RES/1368 (2001)] of 12 September 2001; plus Some initial explanatory comments by John Burroughs, Executive Director, US Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy. (See also the Security Council Resolution 1269 (1999) Against International Terrorism adopted on 19 October 1999: http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1999/99sc1269.htm   )
  • Mikhail Gorbachev Letter to the Editor of the New York Times, 15 Sep 01
  • Joint Palestinian and Israeli intellectuals and activists press release and appeal (17 Sep 01)
  • U.S. Retaliation May Qualify As 'Crime Against Humanity' (Wall Street Journal, 18 Sep 01)
  • Interview with Noam Chomsky by Radio B92 in Belgrade (18 Sep 01)
  • Jeff Cohen: Rule of Law vs. Rule of War: Are Media Missing the Lesson of Oklahoma City? (19 Sep 01) (Jeff Cohen is the founder of FAIR, a national media watch group based in Manhattan, and a media critic on the Fox News Channel. For more on media coverage since September 11: http://www.fair.org   )
  • The nuclear threat. Pakistan could lose control of its arsenal (The Times (UK), 20 Sep 01)
  • Secret Plans For 10-Year War. Generals rule out 'D-Day invasion' (Michael Evans, Defence Editor; The Times, UK, 20 Sep 01)
  • Officials Told Of 'Major Assault' Plans. Inquiry: U.S. authorities were advised in August that as many as 200 terrorists were coming to U.S. as part of plot (Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 01)
  • The War On Terrorism May Bring On A New U.S. Isolationism (William Pfaff; International Herald Tribune, 20 Sep 01)

New Zealand: Engineers for Social Responsibility (ESR) Newsletter September 2001 (Vol. 17/No. 4) http://www.esr.org.nz 

The latest ESR Newsletter carries the following main articles:

• Landmines in Europe (Lawrence Carter speech at the ESR Meeting in April)
• Moving New Zealand Towards a Sustainable Energy Future (John Blakeley, Sustainable Engineering Initiatives, UNITEC)
• Ecological Engineering Conference, Christchurch, 25-29 November 2001;  For more, contact Helen Shrewsbury: < > http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/pdg/iees/
• New initiatives by ESR and IPENZ designed to help new New Zealanders (Immigrant Engineers)
• ESR Letter to the Prime Minister in connection with suggestions that there should be a further move towards non-notification of applications for resource consents
• ESR Yahoo Group Email Discussion If you would like to join the ESR email discussion group, send an email message to:    You don't need to put anything at all in the body of the message. If you wish to drop out of the group, send an email message to:
• Annual Report and AGM Minutes: Copies of the 2000 ESR Annual Report and of the unconfirmed Minutes of the 2001 ESR Annual General Meeting are available electronically from the Newsletter Editor (see below).

Newsletter Editor: Neil Mander < >

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development: Opinion papers update (See also WNII 23/2001)

The London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the RING have produced a series of short briefing papers on key issues to be addressed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, available at: http://www.iied.org/wssd/pubs.html  

The following is the latest update with regard to longer versions of papers published, as well as concerning versions in other languages than English:

• Local agenda 21s (longer version): http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_08_la21s_long.pdf -- Portuguese: http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_08_la21s_portuguese.pdf  
• The UN Financing for Development process (longer version): http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_10_finance_long.pdf  
• National Strategies for Sustainable Development: http://www.iied.org/pdf/nssd09.pdf -- Arabic: http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_09_nssd_arabic.pdf  
• Sustainability and trade (longer version): http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_01_trade_long.pdf -- Arabic: http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_01_trade_arabic.pdf  
• Ecological debt (longer version): http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_04_ecologicaldebt_long.pdf  
• Biodiversity: http://www.iied.org/pdf/biodiversity12.pdf
  • Arabic: http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_12_biodiversity_arabic.pdf
  • Portuguese: http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_12_biodiversity_portuguese.pdf  
• Tourism (longer version): http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_11_tourism_long.pdf
  • Arabic: http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_11_tourism_arabic.pdf  
• Gender and globalisation (longer version): http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_13_gender_long.pdf  

Published just now:

• Environment and health: http://www.iied.org/pdf/health15.pdf  
• Mining and minerals: http://www.iied.org/pdf/mining14.pdf
  • Spanish: http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_14_mining_spanish.pdf  
• Poverty and environment: http://www.iied.org/pdf/poverty03.pdf  
• Public-private partnerships in fresh water provision: http://www.iied.org/pdf/water16.pdf  
• "The Future is Now" (first in a series of booklets on priorities for WSSD): http://www.iied.org/pdf/Rio_Volume1.pdf  

2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development: Webportal

The Canada-based International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has created a web-portal to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which is updated on a regular basis. The portal can be found at: http://www.iisd.ca/wssd/portal.html 

IISD's Linkages Portal coverage:

• Breaking News
• Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) coverage of CSD-10 PrepComs, Regional PrepComs and other preparatory meetings
• Background information on the WSSD and the CSD process
• An up-to-date Calendar of Events
• Preparations at the global, regional and national levels and preparations by major groups and NGOs - these sections include schedules and summaries of meetings, meeting documents and outcomes
• Summit-related Publications
• Links to other Summit-related websites
• Photo gallery showing you "Who's Who" in the Johannesburg Summit process

NOTE: If you would like to include your organization's Summit website in the list of links, or if you have news or meetings to announce, please feel free to send them to Prisna Nuengsigkapian, Assistant Editor, Linkages Journal:  

BRIEFINGS

Self-Determination Crisis Watch listserv

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Click http://www.fpif.org/selfdetermination/listserv/010910.html   to view an HTML-formatted version of issue No. 13/10 September 2001 of the Self-Determination Crisis Watch. listserv.

INES WEB AND E-MAIL SERVICE

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