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The Pugwash Approach

Our Mission:
Empower and equip students and young professionals
to identify, critically analyze, and shape

the ethical, policy, and societal dimensions
of science and technology.

 

The Pugwash approach is best summarized by Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park: 

"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should."

Pugwash events are a moment to stop and think about whether we collectively should do something, and to share information leading to the right decision. The Pugwash goal is to make this kind of thinking reflexive, so that people in all walks of life—working with science and technology, making their own decisions about using it, or voting and promoting their views on public policy—bring the Pugwash approach to their thinking.

We don't tell you what ethical position to take, or what conclusions to draw—although certainly many presenters and individuals at Pugwash events will argue in favor of their own positions, and hopefully present solid data that backs them up. We're about the moment when you stop and think—and about building such moments into every such decision.

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Student Pugwash USA is a 501(c)3 organization registered in Washington, DC, USA.

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The Student Pugwash and Rotblat Society membership programs, and this website, were launched in Summer 2020, and both are still in beta while we figure out what works best for our membership, and how to leverage this site for those programs.

Like everyone else, we're determining how to respond to COVID-19 and how it is impacting campus life, extracurriculars, and the best ways we can bring programs to our members and have them come to us with their ideas.

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