INTERNATIONAL PEACE & CLIMATE JUSTICE WEEKEND MOBILIZATIONS

October 7th, 60 cities worldwide. Full information about actions around the world can be found HERE: >>> https://rebellion.earth/international-rebellion/ Starting Monday October 7, for 2 weeks, Extinction Rebellion and allied movements will gather in major cities across the globe and continue to rebel against the world’s governments for their criminal inaction on the Climate and Ecological... Read more »

Last year around 2,000 of our friends and comrades joined us as we marched on the Pentagon in Arlington, VA, where we called for a revival of a mass antiwar/anti-imperialism movement, attention on the toll war takes on women across the globe, the environmental impacts of war, and much much more. In 2019, we’re fighting... Read more »

The International Peace Bureau´s Triennial Meeting is scheduled for Saturday the 19th of October 2019 in London. The Triennial Meeting (hereafter called the Assembly) of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) is coming up on Saturday, 19th of October 2019, at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, opposite the Houses of Parliament. The Assembly is the highest policy-making... Read more »

Move the Nuclear Weapons Money is a specific initiative linking nuclear disarmament with peace, climate and sustainable development. The campaign calls for cuts in nuclear weapons budgets, an end to investments in nuclear weapons corporations, and a re-allocation of these budgets and investments to support peace, the climate and sustainable development. The campaign will run... Read more »

The elimination of nuclear and all other weapons of mass destruction remains a central but elusive objective of the United Nations. Despite commitments from Member States, there has been limited progress on this long-standing goal. For nuclear weapons, this is largely due to growing tensions between nuclear-armed States and the rigidity of the disarmament machinery.... Read more »

The New World Disorder. Speakers include: Tariq Ali; Medea Benjamin; Lindsey German; Kaye Hudson; Reiner Braun; Aaron Bastani; Kerry-Anne Mendoza; Arielle Denis On the 3rd and 4th of December the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) will mark its 70th anniversary with a Heads of State Summit in London. With Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Recep... Read more »

From December 2 to 4 it will take place in Bogotá (Colombia) one of the biggest arms fairs in Latin America, organised by Eurosatory (Paris' arms fair) with participation of many arms companies and estate delegations. Our Colombian partners from War Resisters International, Ramalc and ACOOC (conscientious objectors) are preparing actions to denounce and boicot... Read more »

Global Day of Protest: No War On Iran! The Trump administration is dragging the United States into a war with Iran that could engulf the whole region and could quickly turn into a global conflict. On Saturday, January 25 in cities across the globe, there will be protests against a new war in the Middle... Read more »

The interdependence between nuclear weapons and civilian nuclear power, in terms of skills and infrastructure, means our government continues to champion expensive new nuclear at the expense of clean renewables. We need to break this cycle. Climate justice can only come with radical demilitarisation.

In 2020 we mobilize against ecocide, white supremacist policy and war in all its forms. We gather to put the issue of peace before the voters in an election year and to protest against anti-immigrant policies. Our principles of unity will be strengthened as we gather to stop the wars at home and abroad. The... Read more »

International webinar: April 21, 2020 Held in conjunction with the Global Days of Action on Military Spending, April 10 – May 5, 2020 CHAIR: Vanda Proskova, Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign WELCOME AND INTRO: Tony Robinson, Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee Session 1: Divestment and ethical/impact investment. 11:00-12:30 (EDT, New York Time) • Thies Kaetow... Read more »

The Opportunity Costs of Military Spending: How and Why it’s Time to Rethink Our Priorities Date/Time Date(s) - Wednesday - Apr 22, 2020 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (CET, GMT+2)   As part of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) 2020, IPB will host a seminar for students and young professionals interested... Read more »

WEBINAR  Challenging Nuclear Weapons in Europe Monday April 27 - 15:00-16:30 CET Registration : arielled@ipb.org   The tensions between nuclear weapons possessors states have worsen dramatically these last months and Europe is at the centre of the storm. The suspension of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia has directly exposed Europe to a new... Read more »

Seventy-five years after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Trinity, nuclear weapons are still an existential threat. Nuclear weapons states are investing trillions of dollars to upgrade their weapons systems. The problem of nuclear weapons will not be solved by non-nuclear nations alone—those of us living in nuclear weapons states and under the nuclear umbrella have a primary... Read more »

Date/Time Date(s) - Thursday - May 28, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Important note: this webinar takes place from 4:00-5:30pm Central European Summer Time. If you are in a different time zone, please ensure that you check the event’s time in your location. Dr. Pedro Páez Pérez, professor at the Central University of Ecuador... Read more »

George Floyd’s atrocious murder at the hand of the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25 represents only the most recent incident of racism and police brutality in the United States. The resulting protests have spread not only across major US cities, but have gone global. The International Peace Bureau (IPB), the Campaign For Peace,... Read more »

IPB presents a two-part webinar series to explore the past two centuries of peace movement activities, including the role of the IPB, which was founded in 1891. In the first session, speakers Guido Grünewald and David Cortright will discuss the peace movement of the 19th century and early 20th century, leading up to the First World War. Special attention... Read more »

IPB presents a two-part webinar series to explore the past two centuries of peace movement activities, including the role of the IPB, which was founded in 1891. In the first session, speakers Guido Grünewald and David Cortright will discuss the peace movement of the 19th century and early 20th century, leading up to the First World War. Special attention... Read more »

Next Thursday, June 16, the Webinar "Arms waste in times of crisis" will be held to present the latest report by the Centre Delàs d'Estudis per la Pau, which analyses the Spanish defence budgets for 2019 and 2020. The Webinar will be attended by the president of the Centre Delàs, an expert in military spending... Read more »

CANCEL RIMPAC, the international Rim of the Pacific naval war practice in Hawaiian waters originally scheduled from June through August 2020 but due to citizen activism and COVID19 is now scaled back to the middle to the end of August. Even this shortened war practice is provocative on a regional level and with the COVID19... Read more »

IPB’s own Angelo Cardona is joined by prominent Colombian Senator Iván Cepeda Castro and journalist and political analyst Dr. Victor de Currea-Lugo to reflect on the 2016 peace agreement and its implementation. Many have questioned the peace deal’s survival since President Iván Duque Márquez’s ascension to power in 2018. Further attention will be given to... Read more »

Conversations hosted by Foreign Policy in Focus about budget priorities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: - Underlying trends that strengthen the case for a fully sustainable recovery from the pandemic; - Pertinent facts, statistics and case studies that bolster the progressive case; - Examples of new organizing energy related to a “pandemic pivot.”... Read more »

The Gaesong Industrial Complex (GIC, located in North Korea) is a joint project between North and South Korea that promotes peace and economic development through inter-Korean economic cooperation. The project was launched in 2003 as a result of the 2000 Korea summit talks. In 2016, the project was shut down, and sanctions on North Korea... Read more »

2020 World Conference against A and H Bombs (online） Theme: "With the Hibakusha, Let Us Achieve a Nuclear Weapon-free, Peaceful and Just World - for the Future of the Humankind and Our Planet" (Zoom webinar: 1000 participants + YouTube) Opening Session: Report from the Organizer: Noguchi Kunikazu, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the World... Read more »

Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: An Online Gathering to Call for a World Free From Nuclear Weapons August 5, 2020 | 12:00 pm Central Europe/ 7:00 pm Japan Join the IPB and esteemed speakers for an online gathering to remember and reflect on the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years... Read more »

The Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H Bombs met on May 8 in full session and proposed that on August 6 through 9 of this 75th year of the A-bomb tragedies it launches an international joint grassroots action “Peace Wave” with the common aim of the elimination of nuclear weapons and... Read more »

2020 World Conference against A and H Bombs (online） Theme: "With the Hibakusha, Let Us Achieve a Nuclear Weapon-free, Peaceful and Just World - for the Future of the Humankind and Our Planet" (Zoom Webinar: 1000 participants + YouTube) Organizer’s Report: Tomida Koji, Drafting Committee Chairperson of the International Meeting Testimony of the Hibakusha Announcement... Read more »

IPB is a co-sponsor of an IPPNW-produced film, “The Vow from Hiroshima”, which will be available on the video platform Vimeo for 24-hours on August 9th. The link is https://vimeo.com/424163926. Please keep this in mind an share it prior to (and on) August 9th!

2020 World Conference against A and H Bombs (online） Theme: "With the Hibakusha, Let Us Achieve a Nuclear Weapon-free, Peaceful and Just World - for the Future of the Humankind and Our Planet" (Zoom webinar: 1000 participants + YouTube) Organizer’s Report: Anzai Ikuro, Committee of Chairpersons of the World Conference (TBC) Testimony of the Hibakusha... Read more »

International Day of Peace Lecture Presented by: Dr Gillian Triggs and Dr Tillman Ruff FREE EVENT September 21, 2020 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM St John's Cathedral 405 Ann St, 373 Ann St, Brisbane, QLD 4000 (Australia) In the 75th year of the United Nations formed after 60 million people died in WW2, the International... Read more »

Date/Time Date(s) - Friday - Sep 25, 2020 11:00 am - 5:30 pm Location Konferenzraum der IALANA/IPB Day: Friday September 25th, 2020 Time: from 11am to 5.30 pm (Central European Summer Time) Location: 10117 Berlin, Marienstraße 19/20 (Meeting room) Virtualization: Hybrid conference with additional zoom participation Initialized by Stopp Air Base Ramstein, with participation and... Read more »

WEBINAR: Militarised Geoplitics versus People's Alternatives Join our upcoming webinar where we will seek to analyse and question the hegemonic & militarised trends in global geopolitics and contrast these with peoples’ security approaches, focussing on social and economic justice and equality. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6TTZ4N_MTByvkgjaGDCb2A Even as the world is caught in the multiple impacts of... Read more »

Date/Time Saturday - Oct 31, 2020 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Tensions around nuclear weapons are growing on the European continent, between Russia and the US and their allies, and the main nuclear bilateral disarmament agreements have been destroyed. Nevertheless, the Treaty the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will soon enter into force and it clearly... Read more »

Webinar: A Climate for Peace by the Peace Union of Finland and the IPB Saturday November 7th 10.30 - 12.30 Peace, Health and Development The world is facing an array of crises: from great power conflict and nuclear weapon buildups to climate change, health pandemics and inequality. With peace as a center point, this webinar... Read more »

PEACE AND DISARMAMENT - CAMPAIGNING FOR PEACE & DISARMAMENT In partnership with the International Peace Bureau Our speakers are: Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram (left), an indigenous scholar and a woman human rights defender; Chloé Meulewaeter (centre), collaborator of the Centre Delàs of Peace Studies and a PhD student in Peace Culture; and Arielle Denis (right), former... Read more »

Date/Time Date(s) - Friday - Jan 22, 2021 1:00 pm CET Register to join the event here: https://bit.ly/ipbprt Dear IPB Family and Friends, On January 22nd, the world will celebrate the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), supported by over 120 states at the UN in July 2017. On... Read more »

Global Civic Agenda for Peace and SDGs in 2021 15:00-16:30 on 8 Feb. (Monday) 2021 – GMT+9 (New York 1 AM, London 6 AM, Rome/Paris 7 AM, New Delhi 11:30 AM, Bangkok 1 PM) Virtual / Updated 24 January 2021 Pre-registration at http://bit.ly/21ppf4youth Background and Objectives The session aims at introducing and setting global agenda... Read more »

The International Peace Bureau invites you to a RoundTable Discussion on: US-China Relations - Challenges & Prospects for Disarmament in Asia Pacific Feb.18 Thursday 13.00 CET 7:00am US Eastern time (8:00pm PH-China-Mongolia; 9:00pm Japan/Korea; 7:00pm Bkk/Jakarta/Hanoi; 5:30pm Delhi) Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtfuyrqDwqG9EQFh3OhrkZmIDMWniO_EFV After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information... Read more »

Date/Time Date(s) - Friday - Mar 5, 2021 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm In order to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day, the IPB would like to introduce its webinar, “Gender and Disarmament”.  Panellists scheduled to speak are: Ms. Emiko Hirano, New Japan Women’s Association (Japan) Emiko joined the anti-nuclear peace movement when she took... Read more »

Date/Time Date(s) - Wednesday - Mar 17, 2021 9:00 am - 10:30 am   In 2020, the annual IPB Séan MacBride Peace was awarded to US-based movement Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the International Signature Campaign in Support of the Appeal of the Hibakusha, one of the largest global signature campaigns to date, launched in 2016 by... Read more »

AEPF 13: an overview From 17th until 24th May 2021, the Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) will hold its 13th biennial People’s Forum under the title “Asia Europe Peope’s Forum for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable World”. AEPF13 will be a virtual event with an exciting series of interlinked dialogues, workshops, actions, policy debates and... Read more »

Time : 15:10 pm - 16:30 pm (Seoul Time), 06:10 am - 07:30 am (UTC), 02:10 am - 03:30 am (EST) on 21 May 2021  The world spent an astronomical amount of $1,917 billion(2.377 quadrillion in KRW) of military spending in 2019 which is 2.2 percent of the world's GDP. It is increasing arms trade... Read more »

Date(s) – June 12, 2021 – 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Voices of the International Peace Movement Building Toward IPB’s (Re)think Our Future – World Conference June 12 Webinar 2 p.m. EDT, 8pm CEST Register at: http://bit.ly/voicesjune12 From nuclear weapons abolitionists in Japan, to Belgians working to reduce military spending to meet urgent human needs... Read more »

NATO Heads of State will meet for their annual summit on Brussels on 14th June. Over the past decades the focus of these summits has been the increasing expansion and globalisation of NATO. This year it will focus on how to maintain western dominance in a world where China is rising economically. NATO’s answer as... Read more »

By World BEYOND War and partners Facebook Event. A broad and growing coalition of peace and environmental organizations has announced plans for an event on Thursday, 4 November, in Glasgow. WHAT: Announcement of a Petition to COP26 Demanding that Militaries Be Included in Climate Agreement; colorful banners and light projection. WHEN: 4 November 2021, 4:00... Read more »