CONTENTS -- Members of the Conference -- Programme of the Conference -- Working Group Topics and Sub-Topics -- Members of Working Groups -- Part I. Statements and Reports from the Conference -- Statement of the Pugwash Council -- Report on Working Group 1: A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World -- Report on Working Group 2: Emerging Security Threats: Africa and Globally -- Report on Working Group 3: Development -- Report on Working Group 4: The Environment -- Report on Working Group 5: International Governance -- Part II. Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions -- Proceedings of the Opening Plenary Session -- Welcoming Address From Professor Marie Muller -- Message of Greeting -- Response to the Messages of Greeting -- Tributes to Deceased Pugwashites -- Address by the Secretary-General -- Introduction of Dr. Waldo Stumpf by Sir Joseph Rotblat -- South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme: From Deterrence to Dismantlement -- Proceedings of the Second Plenary Session: Security in Africa -- The African Renaissance -- The Security Context in Southern Africa and Beyond -- Proceedings of the Special Plenary Session: The Situation in East Timor -- Proceedings of the Third Plenary Session: Science and Technology in South Africa -- Science and Technology in South Africa -- Development through Science -- Proceedings of the Fourth Plenary Session: Light Weapons and Conflict in Africa -- Light Weapons and Conflict in Africa: Introduction -- Light Weapons and Conflict in Africa: Jackie Selebi -- Light Weapons and Conflict in Africa: Martinho Chachiua -- Light Weapons and Conflict in Africa: Jacob Kamenju -- Light Weapons and Conflict in Africa: Peter Lock -- Proceedings of the Fifth Plenary Session: Presentation and Discussion of Working Group Reports -- Proceedings of the Final Plenary Session: Sovereignty and Intervention: International Perspectives.

Sovereignty and Intervention: International Perspectives: Alexander Nikitin -- Sovereignty and Intervention: International Perspectives: Jasjit Singh -- Sovereignty and Intervention: International Perspectives: George Rathjens -- Cooperative Governance, Partnership and Sovereignty in a Future Democratic Society -- Presidential Address -- Part III. Statement and Reports from the Conference -- Working Group 1: A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World -- Nuclear Disarmament: A Lost Cause? -- A Road to Nuclear Disarmament -- Movements Towards Comprehensive Nuclear Disarmament -- Verifying the Transition from Low Levels of Nuclear Weapons to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World -- Indian Nuclear Doctrine -- A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Taiwan Strait -- Rationale for North Korea's Development of a Nuclear Programme -- Development of Theatre Missile Defence and its Effect on International Stability and Arms Control -- The Risk of the Misuse of Highly-Enriched Uranium (HEU) by Terrorists -- Yet Another Lesson to be Learned from the NATO-Yugoslav War -- Working Group 2 Emerging Security Threats: Africa and Globally -- Comprehensive Measures to Reduce Illicit Small Arms Availability -- Economic Analysis of the Arms Trade and Arms Production -- Trends in Terrorism -- Organized Crime as a New Threat to Societies in Transition -- Strategic Impact of Transnational Crime -- Weapons of Mass Destruction, Doctrines for Their Use, and the Threat from Terrorism -- Approaching the Threshold: Conflict, Ingenuity and Environmental Degradation in Malawi -- Globalization - Migration - International Partnership -- Illicit Arms Trade in the Greater Horn of Africa and its Impact on Development -- Security as an Issue when Addressing the Refugee Crisis in Africa -- Firearms Proliferation and Violent Crime in Malawi.

Endless Night: Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Angola -- Elimination of Anti-Personnel Landmines: The Agenda for the 21st Century -- Demining: A Challenge to Science and Technology and to International Solidarity -- Working Group 3 Development -- Beyond Aid: Cooperative Approaches to Achieve Effective International Programmes for Poverty Alleviation -- Nationality and Citizenship in a Globalized World -- Science in the Process of Globalization -- Information Technology in Development Situations -- South Africa as Leader of the Non-Aligned Movement - Some Issues from Sri Lanka -- The Integral Plan of Economic Development for the Tehuantepec Isthmus, Mexico: Some Facts Behind the Mask of Progress -- The Microtron MT-25 Regional Laboratory Project: An Effort in Cooperation for Development -- Working Group 4 The Environment -- Conflict and Cooperation Over Fresh Water -- Water Supply and Demand: A Tentative Inventory -- Water Resources and Survival: A Look at Pastoral Livelihood -- War Over Water - The Case of the Ilisu Dam Project in Turkey -- Water and Social Stability: The Southern African Dilemma -- City Environmental Profile as a Basis for Programmes of Urban Sustainable Development -- The View of the Environment from a Student Pugwashite -- Sustainability and Development Patterns in the South Under Global Change and Market -- Avoiding an Epidemic in Santiago -- Large Dams, Sustainable Livelihoods and the Use of Oral Histories: The Case of Cahora Bassa -- Water and Hunger in Africa -- To Whale Or Not To Whale: Is that the Question? -- Working Group 5 International Governance -- A World Free From War -- The Present Plans to Restructure the Security Council of the United Nations -- Reforming the United Nations -- International Governance -- The Resort to Military Force, International Law and the Just War Tradition.

United Nations: Manager of International Peace and Security or a Silent Spectator? -- United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: The Challenge of Change -- UN Reform and Civil Disobedience -- Some Aspects of the Governance Question in South America -- Information Technologies and International Governance: Possibilities and Problems -- Good Governance in an African Perspective: An Inquiry into Actors and Actions -- Community Participation A Sine Qua Non for An Effective Anti-Corruption Strategy: Youth Partnership Focus -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Author Index.