Tectonic Geopolitical Changes: Which Way to Peace & A Nuclear Weapon-Free World April 26, 2026 at 2:00pm - 5pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) Scandinavia House & Online 58 Park Ave New York, NY 10016 United States Contact person: International Peace Bureau Virtual event |
At a time when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has been reset at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest ever to annihilation; when the viability of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)is under increasing threat and we live in Antonio Gramsci’s “time of monsters,” when the old world is dying and the new one struggles to be born; an international coalition of nuclear disarmament and peace organizations will gather on the eve of the 11th NPT Review Conference.
The Scandinavia House venue is at capacity, but you can still register online.
Agenda and Speakers
Welcome & Introduction
- Joseph Gerson – International Peace Bureau and The Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security
Humanitarian Consequences and the Urgency of Abolition
- Jiro Hamasumi– Secretary General, Nihon Hidankyo
Nuclear powers, arms racing and proliferation
- Jeremy Corbyn– Your Party Parliamentary Leader
- Ray Acheson– Director, Reaching Critical Will
- Phon van den Biesen –International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
- Tadatoshi Akiba– Former Mayor of Hiroshima
Challenging Nuclear Deterrence
- Zia Mian – Princeton University
- Jackie Cabasso – Western States Legal Foundation
- Gloria Bozyigit –Austrian Mission to the United Nations
- Josefin Lind– IPPNW Sweden
Where we go from here
- Alicia Sanders-Zakre– Head of Policy, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- Daniel Hall– Capitol Hill Representative and Faith Outreach Coordinator, Back from the Brink
- Yayoi Tsuchida –Associate General Secretary, Gensuikyo
- Gil Kim –SPARK (Korea)
Closing
- Kevin Martin – President, Peace Action
Cosponsoring Organizations include: Abolition 2000; Back from the Brink; Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; Gensuikin (Japan Congress against A- & H- Bombs); Gensuikyo (Japan Council against A- & H- Bombs); International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), International Peace Bureau; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World; Massachusetts Peace Action; Nihon Hidankyo (Japanese Confederation of A- & H- Bomb Survivors Organizations; Nuclear Ban US; Pax Christi New York State: Peace Action; Peace Action New York State;; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; SPARK; Western States Legal Foundation; World Beyond War