Venue: Independent Union of Science and Higher Education, Zagreb, Croatia
Friday, 5 December 2025, 10:00 AM CEST
Pugwash Croatia, a chapter of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the World Academy of Art and Science, the Global Peace Offensive Center, and the webportal Ideje.hr, are organizing an event under the name ‘The Role of Science in War and Peace – Dialogue, Respect and Dignity’ which will be held in Zagreb, Croatia.
The event will mark several international anniversaries:
The 70th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the 30th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Sir Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. Also, this year Croatia marks the 110 anniversary of the birth of the academician and humanist Ivan Supek, founder of Pugwash Croatia.
The speakers include Donato Kiniger-Passigli, President of the Global Peace Offensive Center and Vice-President of the World Academy of Art and Science, who will present the current activities of the Global Peace Offensive, as well as Karen Hallberg, Secretary General of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs who will speak about the 63rd Pugwash Conference held in Hiroshima in November.
The organizing committee consists of WAAS and Pugwash members Ivo Šlaus, Zvonimir Šikić and Ana Jerković, together with Željko Ivanković from Ideje.hr. This event is held under the high patronage of the President of the Republic of Croatia.
Agenda
Moderator: Rajka Rusan, Ideje.hr
10:00 Welcome and Introduction by Pugwash Croatia
10:05 Ivo Šlaus, Honorary President of the World Academy of Art and Science, Honorary President of Pugwash Croatia
10:10 H. E. Mitsuhiro Wada, Ambassador of Japan to Croatia
10:20 ‘Ivan Supek and the Pugwash Movement’
10:30 Boris Kožnjak, Institute for Philosophy, Zagreb: ‘Before REM: Ivan Supek’s 1944 Anti-Nuclear ‘Manifesto’
10:40 Mario Matijević, Vice-President of the Croatian Nuclear Society: ‘Nuclear Energy – Threat and/or Salvation to a Mankind?’
10:50 Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Vice-President of the World Academy of Art and Science, President of the Global Peace Offensive Centre: ‘A Global Peace Offensive’
11:00 Božo Kovačević, Ambassador:‘How to avoid a world war?’
11:10 Karen Hallberg, Secretary General of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: ‘63rd Pugwash Conference ‘80 Years After the Atomic Bombing – Time for Peace, Dialogue and Nuclear Disarmament’
11:20 Short Film ‘Young Pugwash Hiroshima Conference’, Dalia Alić, Young Pugwash Croatia, World Academy of Art and Science
11:30 Closing Remarks
About:
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs https://pugwash.org
World Academy of Art and Science Welcome – World Academy of Art and Science
Global Peace Offensive Center Global Peace Offensive Center – World Academy of Art and Science
Ideje.hr Naslovnica — Ideje.hr
Organizing Committee: Zvonimir Šikić, President of Pugwash Croatia, World Academy of Art and Science Fellow, Ana Jerković, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Council, World Academy of Art and Science Associate Fellow, Ivo Šlaus, Honorary President of the World Academy of Art and Science, Honorary President of Pugwash Croatia, Željko Ivanković, Independent Union of Research and Higher Education, Ideje.hr
