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29 March 2007

Public Lecture: Iran's Generation Next: Snapshots of life for youth in Iran

13 March 2007

Symposium: Iran in the world: Beyond the nuclear crisis 

26 January 2007

Public lecture: Dr. Payam Akhavan: "Iran, human rights and the nuclear question: What are the connections?"

Iran in the World: Beyond the nuclear crisis

Currently, Iran’s purported nuclear ambitions constitute one of the core challenges to global security. Yet the complex sources of Iran’s nuclear ambitions remain poorly appreciated. Iran’s nuclear aims, and international resistance to them, emerge from the convergence of several unique historical and contemporary forces. Satisfactory resolution of these tensions depends on taking the full breadth of these circumstances fully into account. The Simons Center's "Iran in the World" project aims to explore the particular historical, regional, social and political contexts of Iranian motivations for pursuing nuclear technologies and its purposes are threefold. First, we want to appreciate how the unique circumstances of Iran’s nuclear ambitions should condition global responses aiming to produce a peaceful, cooperative security resolution. Second, we look to enhance the depth and breadth to ongoing policy discussions in Canada and elsewhere. Finally, we aim to increase public attention to and knowledge of these issues.