Asian Students’ Meet

“A Call from Medical Community for Prevention of Small Arms Violence”

Physicians for Social Responsibility Nepal [PSRN] is a Nepalese affiliate of IPPNW. Since its inception PSRN has been working hand-in-hand with the mother organization to achieve the goals- world peace through disarmament, promotion of people’s health and human rights.
PSRN Student Chapter, the student affiliate of PSRN, works actively in harmony with the mother organization. Besides that we have been working on small projects designed on local necessities.
Small arms are detrimental to world peace, so IPPNW has put it in top priority under the project “Aiming for Prevention”. Across South Asia, people’s survival and health has been seriously challenged by ever burgeoning use of small arms. Nepal is not spared- incidences of small arms violence by different groups have increased in recent years. When allowed to go unabated, this will jeopardize numerous aspects of Nepali social fabric and bread a culture of perpetual violence which will inevitably engulf the generations to come. In this context genuine efforts towards mounting pressure from the citizens for a peace building process through controlling, not only violence but also the underlying ills that come courtesy of socio-political malfunction, is essential. To reflect the same sentiment in reality Student Chapter of PSRN organizes Asian Students’ Meet-A Call from Medical Community for the Prevention of Small Arms, to discuss the ways of solution. We want it to conduct as a joint programme of IPPNW and PSRN Student Chapter.

Date: 28th and 29th August 2007
Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal.

Objectives:
· To be self aware about small arm tragedies.
· To know the ways adapted in some countries for tackling small arm violence.
· Development of ways of handling the problems of small arms in our part through brain storming and examples of other countries.
· Dissemination of finding to media for mass awareness.

Activities:
The first day of the meet deals with
· Discussion of student activities in respective countries
· Form networking to fight against common problem
· Motivate students to form student chapter in their countries who do not have

The second day of the programme deals with
· Theoretical session on small arms by Arms specialist
· Group working for designing solutions
· Dissemination of finding to media
· Development of consensus for regular regional co-working to achieve the goal

Who Are the Participants?
· Health Science ( e.g. Medical, Public Health, Nursing, etc.) students from Asian countries
· Students from other continents

What are our expectations at the end of the programme?
· Self awareness
· Development of rigid forum for extension of IPPNW programmes in our part of the globe.
· Development of ways of solution at our level so that we can include them in our local projects.

Registration Fee
The registration fee will be US $ 20.00 ( Twenty Dollars only), that you may pay at arrival. This will include the Accommodation and Fooding during the conference.

Hoping to see you in Kathmandu...