LEBANON Tyre (Sur): A boy saves a few books from the rubble of his home, a six storey apartment building that was bombed by the Israeli air force. The building was in the middle of a densely populated area in the city of Tyre. Three casualties were reported. Photo used on the cover of Alexandria brochure.
Photographer © Jeroen Oerlemans / Panos Pictures

2005

1. Women in Peacemaking project: Commemorations of the centenary of the Nobel Prize awarded to IPB Vice President Bertha von Suttner (1905) - Geneva, Prague, Austria, Udine, The Hague etc. Exhibitions, symposiums, press articles and so on.
2. PRAGUE - workshop bringing together peace-women from Russia and Chechnya.
3. LONDON – Consultation on new international project: Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development + COUNCIL meeting.
4. Publication of Warfare or Welfare? Disarmament for Development in 21st century.
5. Publication of CD-ROM with all materials + photos from Barcelona conference 2004.

2004

1. BARCELONA – Universal Forum of Cultures, organisation of 5 day international congress: Towards a World Without Violence. In collaboration with Fundacio per la Pau, Barcelona.
2. FLORENCE - international seminar on The Future of the United Nations. In collaboration with IPB-Italia.
3. FLORENCE – award of the MacBride Peace Prize to the leaders of the Geneva Initiative on the Middle East, + COUNCIL meeting.
4. Participation in the ROME Nobels Summit organised by the city of Rome and the Gorbachev Foundation.
5. GENEVA: Co-organisation of international seminar on Depleted Uranium weapons

1. ATHENS – IPB Triennial conference : Human Security:  the United Nations, the Olympic Truce and Civil Society
2. Participation in the ROME Nobels Summit organised by the city of Rome and the Gorbachev Foundation
3. Appointment of H.E. Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri Lanka) as IPB Honorary President.
4. Organisation of NGO programme at NPT Review Conference PrepComm (GENEVA), in collaboration with NGO Committees for Disarmament – and preparatory/follow up seminars.
5. Award of MacBride Prize to Nihon Hidankyo (hibakusha from Hiroshima and Nagasaki) – NAGASAKI.
6. Opening of ITALY office (Lugo) and development of campaign on European arms exports + other activities.
7. Launch and distribution of new book: From War to Peace, co-published with Nonviolence International. Analysis and lessons learned from 9 ceasefire and peace negotiation processes. GENEVA

2002

1. World Civil Society Forum, organisation of peace and disarmament programme GENEVA
2. Opening of BARCELONA office and beginning preparations for Barcelona 2004
3. Council meeting GENEVA + award of Sean MacBride Peace Prize to Barbara Lee (USA)  – sole Congressional Representative opposed to Afghan War
4. Launch of Human Security programme
5. Commemorations of the centenary of the Nobel Prizes awarded to Elie Ducommun and Albert Gobat, the first two IPB Secretaries-General (liaison with committees in GENEVA and in BIENNE).
6. Participation in the ROME Nobels Summit organised by the city of Rome and the Gorbachev Foundation

2001

1. Protests against the Sept 11 attacks + Afghan war
2. ATHENS Conference - The Child: a Victim of War and a Messenger of Peace,
3. Council meeting HELSINKI – linked to international small arms conference
4. Disarmament Advocacy Programme launched: covering Bio-weapons conf, Inhumane Weapons Convention, Small Arms, Landmines, Space/Missile Defence and nuclear issues.
5. Active participation at the International Bureau of Education (ministerial) conference, GENEVA
6. Genéve, un Lieu pour la Paix – exhibitions, colloquium, peace itinerary etc to commemorate 100 years of Nobel Prize (Dunant/Passy 1901 Prize)
7. Participation in public manifestations for Aung San Suu Kyi (1991 Prize), GENEVA, OSLO
8. OSLO, MILAN -  Nobel centenary, official ceremonies

(IPB promotes laureates’ peace declaration)

2000

1. IPB Triennial Conference PARIS The Globalization of Peace
2. Books published: Peace is Possible and Time to Abolish War! A Youth Peace Agenda
3. Development of the peace education campaign: worldwide networking, speaking at conferences, website, campaign kit, endorsers list etc.
4. Support for the International Year for the Culture of Peace
5. Development of the Middle Powers Initiative on nuclear weapons
6. Formation of the GENEVA Action Action network on Small Arms
7. New Disarmament-Geneva pamphlet series

1999

1. HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE CONFERENCE Time to Abolish War! & Prep confs around the world. 10,000 participants.
2. Launch of Global Campaign for Peace Education, Report of the Geneva Peace Education Conference published
3. Launch of International Action network on Small Arms (at the Hague conf)
4. Campaigns against Kosovo war and Chechnya War

1998

1. November conference on Peace Education GENEVA (Preparatory conf. for Hague Appeal for Peace Congress May 99) – jointly organised with Geneva International School. (Venues: ILO and Intl. School)
2. Council meeting London
3. Hague Appeal for Peace preparatory phase, including hosting Organising Committee meetings, GENEVA; grants and support to around 15 regional organisations and national prepcomms; Peace Matters newspaper;

1997

1. Hague Appeal for Peace PREPARATORY PHASE BEGINS
2. IPB Triennial conference MOSCOW – Global Security –National Interests: the Role of Civil Society
3. Book published: Environmental and Health Effects of Chernobyl
4. NATO expansion info packet
5. Website launched
6. Published booklet on the International Criminal Court
7. Speech at Salon du Livre, GENEVA
8. Support for Landmines campaign – Ottawa Treaty and Nobel Prize
9. SOS Rio, sustainable development project begun

1996

1. ICJ Advisory Opinion; BRUSSELS Conference Getting to Zero (in European Parliament)
2. planning starts for Hague Appeal for Peace
3. Council meeting BRUSSELS
4. 10th anniversary of Chernobyl – info packet
5. TUZLA: presentation of MacBride Prize to Selim Beslagic, Mayor
6. Assitance in rescuing the ‘twisted cannon’ sculpture and getting it placed outside the Palais des Nations, GENEVA
7. Canberra Commission on nuclear elimination

1995

1. NPT Review and Extension Conf. NEW YORK. Launch of Abolition 2000
2. BEIJING UN Women’s conference – preparatory materials and launch of annual May 24th booklet on women and peacemaking
3. Successful IPB nomination results in Nobel Peace Prize for Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash movement. IPB attends Nobel award ceremony in OSLO and organises public events.
4. IPB organises protests against French nuclear testing, including in GENEVA
5. UN 50th anniversary – diverse activities
6. Council meeting POTSDAM and conference Citizens' Responses to armed conflicts in C. and E. Europe
7. Speech in DRESDEN on 50th anniversary of the bombings
8. Support for London-based project Accord: a Review of Peace Initiatives, analysing conflict situations in detail

1994

1. IPB Assembly BARCELONA, new constitution approved
2. From Saigon to Sarajevo published
3. The Right to Refuse Military Orders published
4. Public meetings at the Hague to profile the World Court Project
5. Wrote and published The Unfinished Disarmament Agenda
6. N.IRELAND Peace Process Tour
7. MANCHESTER International Peace Festival

1993

1. International Coalition for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament launched
2. Annual Conference LONDON: One World or None?
3.  
4. World Health Assembly vote on Advisory Opinion request
5. Helped form European Test Ban Coalition

1992

1. IPB CENTENARY  YEAR:
2.  MULTI-CONFERENCE COMMEMORATION – HELSINKI-STOCKHOLM-TALLINN
3. Launch conference of World Court Project  GENEVA +  UN Exhibition on IPB history –  + MacBride Lawyers Appeal on Illegality of Nuclear Weapons presented to Director of UNOG – Hiroshima to the Hague book published
4. Publication of UN exhibition catalogue on IPB history
5. UNCED/RIO DE JANEIRO conf – militarism and sustainable development project
6. Inauguration of Sean MacBride Peace Prize

1991

1. GULF WAR PROTESTS + post-war seminar ANTWERP
2. Deadly Deception worldwide film distribution (to 1993)
3. Annual conference TORONTO Building World Community: Resistance or Reconciliation?
4. IPB centenary public meeting – BERNE
5. Publication of 100 Years of Peacemaking

1990

1. 4th Review Conf of NPT + organisation of peace ‘festival’ GENEVA
2. European Peace and security Office project – Brussels office (to 1992)
3. Tackling the Arms Trade book (to 1992)
4. Gulf War protests
5. Annual conference PARIS

THROUGHOUT:

Conferences of the NGO Committee for Disarmament (2 x year)

Conference or seminar accompanying each Council meeting

Travel to and participation in innumerable peace movement events worldwide

Participation in numerous UN conferences and PrepComms

Active youth programme, with worldwide networking, since 1997

IPB News magazine (3 times a year)

Book publishing (see above, also catalogue)

Peace history projects, numerous

Consistent support for the release of Mordechai Vanunu, nuclear whistleblower (Israel)

MacBride Prize awarded every year from 1992 (see below for list of recipients)

Nobel nomination made (almost) every year

Membership development and outreach to new communities

Media work, networking, liaison, coordination……….

Sean MacBride Peace Prize winners

1992 – Michael D Higgins, Minster of Arts and Culture (Ireland) – lawyer and human rights defender
1993 – Hilda Lini, former Minister of Health (Vanuatu) – exposed effects of nuclear testing in Pacific
1994 – Mordechai Vanunu (Israel) –nuclear whistleblower (imprisoned 18 years)
1995 – Committee of Soldiers Mothers (Russia) – opposed war in Chechnya and military abuses
1996 – Selim Beslagic, Mayor of Tuzla (Bosnia) – maintained multi-ethnic policy in climate of nationalism and war
1997 – Seeds of Hope campaigners (UK) – opposed arms sales to Indonesia
1998 – John Hume MEP (N.Ireland) –  leader of SDLP and major peace advocate since 1960s
1999 – Barbara Gladysch, Mothers for Peace (Germany) – campaigner for war and radiation victims
2000 – Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik (India) –anti-nuclear journalists
2001 – Rosalie Bertell (Canada-USA) – scientist and campaigner on behalf of radiation victims
2002 – Barbara Lee (USA) - sole Congressional Representative opposed to Afghan War
2003 – Nihon Hidankyo (Japan) – Survivors of nuclear bombings
2004 – Geneva Initiative on the Middle East
2005 – no award made

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