SCIENCE FOR PEACE

In 1993 the ethics committee of Science for Peace produced a document called The Somalia Resolution, which listed twelve considerations that should be covered by any scientific discipline's code of ethics. Twenty years later, it seemed appropriate to review and perhaps revise that document. Soon, however, the current ethics committee concluded that the factors distorting research today is result less from personal ethical breaches than from questionable practices in the scientific institutions controlling research and the dissemination of findings... Freedom for Research Freedom For Research is a working group within Science for Peace that will study various constraints on freedom of scholarship and science. There are common distortions, suppressions, and lapses of integrity in the production of knowledge in universities, private research organizations, and government research institutions. We will especially explore the current global.