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IPPNW-Students Nepal
2007 Asian Students' Meeting
A Call from the Medical
Community for the Prevention of Small Arms
On August 28th - 29th, 2007, the Nepalese affiliate of IPPNW PSRN (Physicians for Social Responsibility Nepal) organized a 2-day Asian students' meeting in Kathmandu. This meeting focused on preventing small arms violence.
Post-Conference Report
To download a report from this meeting, please click here (Nepalese report) or here (Bangladeshi Report).
Photos
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 on our part through brainstorming and following the examples of other countries.
- Dissemination of our findings to the media for mass awareness.
Activities
Day 1
- Discussion of student activities in respective countries
- Networking to fight against common problems
- Motivate students without national chapters to start one
Day 2
- Theoretical session on small arms by an arms specialist
- Group work aimed towards designing solutions
- Dissemination of our findings to media
- Development of consensus for regional work to achieve the goal
Expectations at the end of the programme
- Self awareness
- Development of a formal forum in order to extend IPPNW programs to our part of the globe.
- Development of solutions at our level so that we can include them in our local projects.
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