The presentations kindly provided by the lecturers can be downloaded clicking on the names evidenced in dark yellow.
Thursday 7 January 2016
Arrival and Registration Hotel Gruppo Brenta, Andalo
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
Friday 8 January 2016
9:00 – 9:30 Session 1
Introduction to the Course
Carlo Schaerf , ISODARCO School Director
Paolo Foradori and Tariq Rauf, ISODARCO Course Co-Directors
9:30 – 10:30 Session 2
Introductions by Speakers and Participants
10:30 – 12:30 Session 3 Chair: Paolo Foradori – Secretary: Francesca Silvestri
Keynote address: The Role of the EU in Promoting Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Jacek Bylica, Principal Adviser and Special Envoy for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, European External Action Service
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee / Tea
16:30 – 18:00 Session 4 Chair: Paolo Foradori – Secretary: Tamara Linder
The Vienna Agreement between the EU/E3+3 and Iran: Overview and Interpretation
Tariq Rauf, Director, Disarmament & Arms Control, SIPRI; FMR Head, Verification & Security Policy, IAEA
18:00 – 18:15 Break
18:15 – 19:45 Session 5 Chair: Tariq Rauf – Secretary: Ioana Popescu
Panel: Assessing the Vienna Agreement on Iran’s Nuclear Programme
Jacek Bylica, European External Action Service
Martin Malin, Harvard University
Carlo Trezza, Former Chairman, Missile Technology Control Regime – MTCR
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Institute for Political and International Studies, former Ambassador of Iran to the IAEA
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
21:15 – 23:00 Session 6 Chair: Tariq Rauf – Secretary: Jens Heinrich
Screening of “Dr. Strangelove” followed by discussion
Saturday 9 January 2016
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Laura Reed – Secretary: Channy Putsorn
The Humanitarian Initiative and Pledge on Nuclear Weapons: An Effective Route to Achieve Disarmament?
Rebecca Johnson, ACRONYM Institute
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee / Tea
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2 Chair: Mirco Elena – Secretary: Julia Rose Tenyotkin
Global Nuclear Security: Risks and Paradigm Shifts
Rebecca Johnson, ACRONYM Institute
Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary Emeritus of the CTBTO
18:00 – 18:15 Break
18:15 – 19:45 Session 3 Chair: Francesco Calogero – Secretary: Giorgia Gasperini
IAEA Safeguards: Serving Nuclear Non-Proliferation in a Changing World
Jenni Rissanen, Strategic Planning Team Leader, Department of Safeguards, IAEA
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
21:15 – 23:30 Evening Session
ISODARCO Social Event
Sunday 10 January 2016
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Aylin Gurzel – Secretary: Danielle Preskitt
Future Efforts to Discuss Arms Control and Disarmament in The Middle East
Martin Malin, Belfer Centre, Harvard University
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee / Tea
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2 Chair: Tariq Rauf – Secretary: Harry Clowes
Developing a Nuclear Energy Programme: The Responsible Approach
Hamad AlKaabi, Permanent Representative of the UAE to the IAEA
18:00 – 18:15 Break
18:15 – 19:45 Session 3 Chair: Alessandro Pascolini – Secretary: Matthew Scanlon
Panel: Institutions for Nuclear Governance
Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary Emeritus of the CTBTO
Jiang Yimin, Center for Strategic Studies, China Academy of Engineering Physics
Tariq Rauf, Director, Disarmament & Arms Control, SIPRI
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
21:15 – 23:30 Session 4 Chair: Paolo Foradori – Secretary: Godefroy Harito
Panel: The Next Generation of Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research
Presentations by younger scholars: Enrico Fiorentini, Jens Heinrich, Kalman Robertson and Francesca Silvestri
Monday 11 January 2016
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Carlo Trezza – Secretary: Enrico Donda
The Current Crisis in Nuclear Arms Control
Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Moscow
10:45 – 12:00 Seminar
The Humanitarian Initiative
Rebecca Johnson
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
15:15 – 16:00 Seminar
DPRK’s nuclear program
James Person, Tariq Rauf, Carlo Trezza
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee / Tea
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2 Chair: Tariq Rauf – Secretary: Evgueni Kalashnikov
Panel: US-EU/Russian Relations
Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Moscow
Nadia Arbatova, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)
Joseph Pilat, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars
18:00 – 18:15 Break
18:15 – 19:45 Session 3 Chair: Diego Latella – Secretary: Andreas Tsamados
President Obama’s Prague Speech: Assessment and the Way Forward
Joseph Pilat, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
21:15 – 23:30 Session 4 Chair: Shelly Lesher – Secretary: Anthony Musa
Panel: Non-Proliferation, Disarmament and Civil Society
Steve Miller, Harvard University
Rebecca Johnson, ACRONYM Institute
Tom Sauer, University of Antwerpen
Carlo Schaerf, ISODARCO
Tuesday 12 January 2016
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Mieke Massink – Secretary: Amaury Crucy
Civil Nuclear Technology and the Implications for the Non-Proliferation Regime
Steve Miller, Belfer Centre, Harvard University
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2 Chair: Bruce Larkin – Secretary: Kristin Olivia Gressberg
Nuclear Weapons Modernization and its Impact on the Non-Proliferation and Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaties and Geo-Political Stability
Giorgio Franceschini, Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee / Tea
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3 Chair: Nadia Arbatova – Secretary: Bryce Block
The Future of US Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Tom Sauer, University of Antwerpen
18:00 – 18:15 Break
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Riccardo Antonini – Secretary: Maria Lourdes Gregorio
Panel: Nuclear Governance: Challenges and Opportunities
Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Moscow,
Steve Miller, Belfer Centre, Harvard University
Carlo Trezza, Former Chairman, Missile Technology Control Regime – MTCR
Wednesday 13 January 2016
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Shelly Lesher – Secretary: Koca Didem
Stability at Low Numbers of Nuclear Weapons?
Judith Reppy, Cornell University
10:30 – 13:00 Session 2 Chair: Paolo Foradori – Secretary: Elisabeth Suh
New framework for the Utilization of Nuclear Energy: Multilateral Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Tariq Rauf, Director, Disarmament & Arms Control, SIPRI; FMR Head, Verification & Security Policy, IAEA
Concluding Session: Assessment, Wrap-up, Isodarco 2017
Paolo Foradori, Tariq Rauf and Carlo Schaerf
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
15.15 – 16.00 Seminar
The culture of violence and the culture of peace
Ioana Popescu
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee / Tea
18:00 – 19:30 Screening of “Fail Safe” followed by pre-dinner drinks
20:00 – 21:00 The Last Supper
Thursday 14 January 2016
6:00 Bus departs for Milan Airports
