In the 1980s, Dürr advocated the cause of peace as a member of thePugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. In 1983, he helped co-fund the Scientists' Initiative "Responsibility for Peace", which led to the Scientists' Peace Congress inMainz attended by 3,300 scientists and the Mainzer Appell, a declaration against further nuclear armament. In 1990, another large scientists' convention in Göttingen warned against the militarization of space. In support of these conventions, Dürr gave a series of lectures at numerous German universities. Dürr was a leading critic of the USStrategic Defense Initiative (SDI), otherwise known as Star Wars.[7]
In 1986 Dürr proposed a World Peace Initiative, on a similar scale to the SDI, to solve environmental problems, and achievesocial justice and peace. In 1987 this was reborn as the Global Challenges Network, which received theRight Livelihood Award together with Dürr.[8]
More recently,[when?] Dürr contributed to the global environmental movement. He served as a member of the board ofGreenpeace Germany and as a member of the International Advisory Council on the Economic Development of Hainan in Harmony with the Natural Environment in China. In 1996, Dürr was made a member of theUN Secretary General's international advisory group for the Habitat II Conference inIstanbul.
Dürr was a member of theClub of Rome and served on the scientific committee of the Vienna Internationale Akademie für Zukunftsfragen, advocating sustainable, equitable, andviable development, emphasizing energy efficiency and sufficiency as a point of entry. He was a founder member of the GermanVereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie.[6]
In 2005, together withDaniel Dahm and Rudolf zur Lippe, he published thePotsdam Manifesto and the Potsdam Denkschrift as a follow-up to the Russell–Einstein Manifesto of 1955. They were signed by a large group of scientists from all over the world, including 20 laureates of theRight Livelihood Award.
Gott, der Mensch und die Wissenschaft (co-author), Pattloch Verlag, 1997.
Rupert Sheldrake in der Diskussion (co-ed.), Scherz Verlag, 1997.
Für eine zivile Gesellschaft, dtv 2000.
Elemente des Lebens (co-ed.), Graue Edition, 2000.
Wir erleben mehr als wir begreifen (co-author), Herder spektrum, 2001.
Wirklichkeit, Wahrheit, Werte und die Wissenschaft (co-author, co-ed.), BWV, 2003.
Auch die Wissenschaft spricht nur in Gleichnissen, Herder spektrum, 2004.
H.P.Dürr/Raimon Panikkar:Liebe - Urquelle des Kosmos − Ein Gespräch über Naturwissenschaft und Religion, Herder Vlg. (Herder Tb.5965), Freiburg 2008,ISBN978-3-451-05965-0
.jpg)
![[icon]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aWiki_letter_w_cropped.svg)
