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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Dialogues
with Decision Makers The Dialogues
With Decision Makers program, which has been organized for several years
by SLMK (IPPNW-Sweden), Medact (IPPNW-UK) and other affiliates, brings delegations
of physicians, medical students, and other nuclear weapons experts together with
government officials and policy makers in nuclear weapon states to discuss the
medical consequences of nuclear war and proposals for disarmament. During
the past decade, Dialogues meetings have been held in France, India, Pakistan,
Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and at NATO headquarters in
Brussels. Dialogues sessions are normally conducted under "Chatham House Rules,"
meaning that specific statements made by individuals during the meetings are not
published for attribution. This is a confidence-building measure meant to encourage
candid exchanges of views. An important feature of the
Dialogues program is the opportunity it provides for IPPNW medical students to
meet with fellow students of medicine, social sciences and natural sciences in
the nuclear weapon states and to initiate discussions on disarmament and peace-building
activities on an interdisciplinary basis. Dialogues with Decision Makers
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