When? Thursday, 4 August, 4pm-6pm Eastern Summer Time

Where? UN Headquarters in New York, Conference Room B

Delayed by the pandemic, we are happy to finally present 2019 Seán MacBride Peace Prize recipient Elayne Whyte Gómez with the medal in-person!

Featured speakers include Alexander Kmennt of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Beatrice Fihn of ICAN (video), Lisa Clark and Joseph Gerson of IPB and Mr Kunihiko Sakuma, Chairperson of Hiroshima Hidankyo. There will also be a virtual musical performance by the Istgah Orchestra, an Iranian musical group based out of Tehran.

For guests unable to attend in person, the ceremony will be delivered in hybrid format using Zoom. Register at: https://bit.ly/3OUY88L

Other NPT side events and related events:

Saturday, 30 July | 5pm-11pm EST: International Peace & Planet Network Conference (hybrid)

Featuring Reiner Braun, Kunhikio Sakima, Sharan Burrow, Yurii Sheliazhenko, Anuradha Chenoy, Ruth Mitchell, Jackie Cabasso, Tianjiao Jiang, Oleg Bodrov, Joseph Gerson, Jeremy Corbyn, and Liz Theoharis. Register here.

Wednesday, 3 August | 10:30am-12:30pm EST: Nuclear Weapons in Europe (hybrid)

Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy all  have US nukes stationed within their territories. What do nuclear sharing arrangements mean for Europe in 2022? Register here. 

Thursday, 4 August | 10:30am-12:30pm EST: No Common Security With Nuclear Weapons (hybrid)

Join us as we explore the topic of nuclear weapons through the lens of the new report Common Security 2022: For Our Shared Future. Register here.

Friday, 5 August | 7:00pm-9:00pm EST: 77 Years Later: Eliminate Nukes, Not Life on Earth (in-person in Washington D.C.)

Join Reiner Braun, Vicki Elson, Negar Mortazavi, Sam Rosenthal, David Swanson, and Kazuyuki Nakazato for this live and free public event at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington, DC. Register here. 

The 24-hour Peace Wave was a one-of-a-kind global rally for Peace and cooperation around the clock, with twenty-four non-stop hours of protests, demonstrations, vigils, teach-ins, speakers, discussion rounds, music, and art from all around the world. The event was recorded and livestreamed simultaneously, moving West around the globe from 2:00pm in the UK on June 25th to 4:00pm in Ukraine on June 26th. The participants had the opportunity to choose between various sessions to join, depending on which part of the world they were in at the time of the event. 

A highlights video and all 12 sections are available to watch here.

Bruce Kent was an internationally-known peace activist and a real peace hero who, even in his final years, remained an active campaigner and organizer for peace and human rights. In addition to his role as President of the International Peace Bureau from 1985 to 1992, he was an ordained  Catholic Priest in the Diocese of Westminster in London and was active with a number of peace organizations, including CND, Pax Christi, War on Want, the European Nuclear Disarmament Campaign and Movement for the Abolition of War (which he co-founded in 2001).

On Thursday, July 7th, we gathered to celebrate his life and work. You can watch the recording here. 

• Side event to the biennial meeting of States on Small Arms and Light Weapons: The Role of Parliamentarians, Commons Security and United Nations Program of Action to Combat Small Arms and Light Weapons Proliferation
• Publication of the report “NATO, Building Global Insecurity” by Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau, in collaboration with the International Peace Bureau (IPB) and the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS) - Available in English and Spanish
• NATO Counter-Summit in Madrid Statement by the No to War - No to NATO network and IPB. You can also watch the video, provided by People’s Dispatch Youtube Channel, which features Reiner Braun, IPB Executive Director, who was present at the panels and demonstration in Madrid for the Peace Summit.
• Statement by Philip Jennings on the deployment of nuclear weapons at RAF Lakenheath, U.K.
• Ulaanbaatar Statement on Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones