ISYP Report & Reflections
This past year as well as the past few years have been particularly challenging as well as fruitful. The complexities and multitude of conflicts, existential risks and wars have challenged the ISYP leadership team on personal levels as well as the implementation of the work that we aspire to do. Nevertheless, ISYP has grown its leadership team and community, its outreach and work on diverse topics, which stands as a testament to our collective resilience and dedication.
As our mission statement, ISYP seeks to provide students and young professionals with opportunities to engage in cross-national dialogue and cooperation on issues at the nexus of science, ethics and security. ISYP takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues including nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies. In tandem, ISYP creates a space for its members to develop personal relationships and to understand “the other”—thereby nurturing common understanding. Later on, as these individuals gain influence, their cross-national relationships become crucial for policymaking that promotes peace. These goals are pursued in the spirit of the Pugwash network’s founding document, the 1955 Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which reads: “Remember your humanity and forget the rest.”
It has become ever more crucial as well as challenging to fulfil this mission. We thank you for your interest and support; and, despite the many disheartening developments worldwide, we are more committed than ever to advancing our mission and are eager to share our progress and future endeavors with you.
If you want to know more about who we are, what we have been doing over the past 5 years, which projects are ongoing and what new initiatives we will launch, please have a look at our ISYP Report as presented to the Pugwash Council on October 21, 2023.ISYP Report & Reflections
This past year as well as the past few years have been particularly challenging as well as fruitful. The complexities and multitude of conflicts, existential risks and wars have challenged the ISYP leadership team on personal levels as well as the implementation of the work that we aspire to do. Nevertheless, ISYP has grown its leadership team and community, its outreach and work on diverse topics, which stands as a testament to our collective resilience and dedication.
As our mission statement, ISYP seeks to provide students and young professionals with opportunities to engage in cross-national dialogue and cooperation on issues at the nexus of science, ethics and security. ISYP takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues including nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies. In tandem, ISYP creates a space for its members to develop personal relationships and to understand “the other”—thereby nurturing common understanding. Later on, as these individuals gain influence, their cross-national relationships become crucial for policymaking that promotes peace. These goals are pursued in the spirit of the Pugwash network’s founding document, the 1955 Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which reads: “Remember your humanity and forget the rest.”
It has become ever more crucial as well as challenging to fulfil this mission. We thank you for your interest and support; and, despite the many disheartening developments worldwide, we are more committed than ever to advancing our mission and are eager to share our progress and future endeavors with you.
If you want to know more about who we are, what we have been doing over the past 5 years, which projects are ongoing and what new initiatives we will launch, please have a look at our ISYP Report as presented to the Pugwash Council on October 21, 2023.
