edited by Joseph Rotblat (President Emeritus of the Pugwash Conferences)

In this book, scientists who are pre-eminent in their fields focus on the crucial role of science in the transition away from a culture of war towards the construction of peace based on a capacity to anticipate and prevent destructive conflicts. The subject matter, wide-ranging and of great concern to people everywhere, includes the progress and prospects for a nuclear-weapon-free world; non-nuclear threats to peace and security; the building of legitimate world institutions; conflict resolution and the construction of peace; the local and global environmental dimensions of peace; the health hazards of nuclear chemical and biological weapons; and the interactions between health problems and poverty.

• Chiapas: Politics or War (R Benitez-Manaut)
• Nuclear Disarmament: Is This as Good as It Gets? (M M Bosch)
• The Future of Nuclear Weaponry and our Civilization (F Calogero)
• Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Non-Proliferation (O M Sukovic)
• Technology and the Prevention of Genocide (D Andersen & A Moden)
• Asian Financial Crisis and China (Z-Q Xie)
• Ethnic Identity and Border Disputes in the Balkans (N Behar)
• Water Security in Southern Africa (N Dippenaar)
• Poverty, Disease and War (J Avery)
• Poverty, Public Health and Peace: A Southern African Perspective (R A Mogotlane)
• and other papers.