Education at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
AMC organises courses about nuclear disarmament that are part of regular university teaching as well as independent specialised courses. The centre also offers training for school pupils and teachers.
The priorities in terms of education are to offer and present both an advanced PhD course in technical nuclear verification of nuclear disarmament with a focus on applied nuclear physics with additional cross-disciplinary elements, as well as an undergraduate course on nuclear weapons and disarmament.
In addition to these efforts, AMC together with Sipri and Odesa Center for Nonproliferation organises the Armament and Disarmament Summer School, a course and networking opportunity for the next generation of academics, researchers, opinion leaders and policymakers in the field of disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control, aimed to support and reinvigorate disarmament education activities.
Armament and disarmament summer school
The Armament and Disarmament Summer School is offered by the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament in collaboration with SIPRI and the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP).
Courses on nuclear weapons and verification
AMC offers an undergraduate course on issues regarding nuclear weapons and disarmament as well as s PhD course on verification of nuclear test explosions.
Additional education efforts
11/19/2025
AMC organised a simulation exercise in Uppsala for university students.
10/28/2025
‘The Bomb and Diplomacy: Nuclear Weapons Negotiations Now and Then’, Ulrika Möller lectures to social studies teachers during ‘Subject Day’, organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg.
9/26/2025
AMC and UI hosted two seminars at the Gothenburg bookfair. About 450 people attended, including around 140 upper secondary school students.
6/16/2025
Thomas Jonter gave a talk at a meeting of Upper-secondary school Civics teachers (Samhällslära) on 16 June 2025 in Uppsala.
6/11/2025
Sibylle Bauer and Wilfred Wan hosted a workshop on nuclear disarmament education.
4/11-12/2025
Thomas Jonter represented the AMC at the workshop Advancing Disarmament in a New Age of Insecurity, where scientists, scholars and representatives from civil society from all over the world convened in Vancouver to create a global network for promoting education on disarmament.
2/10-14/2025
Cecilia Gustavsson, Teaching for the Nuclear Verification Winter School (NVWS), from February 10 to 14, 2025, in Duisburg, Germany. Topic: Advances in Nuclear Technology and Implications for Nuclear Disarmament Verification
A lecture for the Bachelor's level course Introduction to Nuclear Physics and Its Applications
A lecture for the Master's level course Future Nuclear Energy Systems - Analyses and Simulations
2024
11/27/2024
"Årets Nobelpriser", teachers' evening at the Nobel Prize Museum. Thomas Jonter presented the work of this year's Peace Prize leaureate Nihon Hidankyo.
10/17/2024
Peter Wallensteen gave a talk at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs's "Gymnasiedag: Krig och fred" for 300 upper secondary school students. AMC co-hosted the event.
11/19/2024
Cecilia Gustavsson presented for high school science students at the Science Day. Topic: Nuclear Weapon Disarmament – technical aspects.
June 2024
WG5 organised an expert worshop in Solna: Diversifying Nuclear Disarmament Education'
2024
An E-learning module for EUNPDC with text and audio-record was made by Cecilia Gustavsson and Debora Trombetta on Nuclear Weapons I : Technology, Materials, Testing, Monitoring
A lecture for the Bachelor's level course Introduction to Nuclear Physics and Its Applications
2023
November 2023.
WG5 hosted the worshop“ How Nuclear Disarmament is Taught” at the Second Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), New York, USA,
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