Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace(CNDP)
invites you to a seminar on
Bhopal Anniversary
“Responses to Industrial and Nuclear Disasters: Governments vs. The People”
Venue:
Committee Room
School of Social Sciences, Building-I
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067
Date and Time: 3pm-5pm, December 2, 2013
Concept: In the face of severe man-made accidents, governments tend to protect the corporations responsible rather than the victims. We have seen this in both the Bhopal and Fukushima disasters. This seminar will discuss the history and reasons for government inaction and cover-up and the resulting people’s movements which spring up to fight for justice and policy change. The present and possible future impacts of these movements will also be examined.
Speakers:
N.D. Jayaprakash is the Joint Secretary of the Delhi Science Forum and Co-Convenor of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti, a survivor’s organization. He has been an active member of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace(CNDP)
Jeff Kingston is a professor at Temple University, Japan, where he is Director of Asian Studies. He has written extensively on the Fukushima nuclear disaster and its social and political impacts.
Chair: M G Devasahayam. Chairman of the Independent Expert Committee on Koodankulam, PMANE
Contact: P K Sundaram, CNDP, phone: 9810 556 134
