Before you lies the proceedings oft he NATO Advanced Study
Institute/Newton Institute Workshop "Confinement, duality and non
perturbative aspects of QCD". The school covered the most important
techniques to study Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) andconfinement,
fromlattice gauge theory, through Wilson's renormalisation group, to
electromagnetic duality. The organisingcommittee existed of: Ian
Drummond (DAMTP, Cambridge), Mikhail Shifman (Minneapolis), Peter West
(King's, London), and Pierrevan Baal (Leiden), who acted as director oft
he school. This summer school was the concluding activity ofa six month
programme on "Non perturbative Aspects of Qua ntum Field Theory" taking
place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Ca
mbridge, UK, whic h started in January 1997, organised by David Olive,
Pierre van Baal, and Peter West. A large number ofthe lecturers also
participated in the programme and a few programme participants were
asked to present a seminar at the school. Not contained in these
proceedings are the seminars by Peter Landshoff (DAMTP, Cambridge) on
"The Pomeron" and Ludwig Faddeev (Steklov Math. Inst., St. Petersburg)
on "Knot like solitons in 3+1 dimen sional field theory". In additiont o
the lectures and seminars there were two poster sessions at which
participants presented their work. Authors and titles ofthese posters
are listed on a separate page. These pro ceedings address the
longstanding question of understanding how quarks are confined w ithin
subnuclear particles.