IPB nominates A-Bomb survivors for Nobel Peace Prize 2010
Geneva, 28 January 2010. The IPB has nominated once again the NIHON HIDANKYO organisation of Japan, representing the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is our third nomination of this unique and important body.
We have several reasons for repeating this particular nomination: 
1.The hibakusha have spent the last 65 years living with the after-effects of last century’s most terrible acts of destruction, and – with immense courage – have found ways to transform their suffering through active, long-term resistance to the continuing threats posed by weapons of mass destruction.
2.They are a community whose numbers are gradually dwindling. The time for the worldwide recognition is now.
3.The award of the international community’s most prestigious peace honour to nuclear victims would help to alert world opinion, not only to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also to the important new possibilities for disarmament, brought about primarily by the political initiatives of the 2009 Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama.
4.We believe this nomination is entirely within the meaning and spirit of Alfred Nobel’s will.

It is with much enthusiasm that the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress endorses this Global Call for Action on Military and Social Spending. We agree strongly that the needs of the world’s poor and developing countries are not being met by developed countries and that excessive spending to purchase and stockpile weapons while the most basic human needs of so many in the world go unmet is an injustice that cannot be allowed to continue.   We also support you in calling for action to reduce such spending and directing 10% of those funds to meet the UN´s Millennium Development goals by 2015. It is time that the nations of the world act on the many promises that have been made throughout the years.

IPB hopes this latest endorsement will encourage other organisations and institutions to add their voices to this important Call.

THE 10th NOBEL PEACE SUMMIT IN BERLIN - 2009

International Peace Bureau was represented at the 10th Nobel Peace Summit in Berlin 9-11 November 2009 by Urban Gibson and Reiner Braun. IPB Vice-President Alyn Ware also attended. The Summit, entitled “Breaking down new walls and building bridges to ensure a World of Human Rights and a World without violence” brought together Nobel laureates who have made a significant contribution in breaking down the walls of conflict, poverty and human rights violations – and building the bridges required for an equitable, sustainable and peaceful world. >>> READ MORE. Click here for a PHOTGALLERY of the Summit.

World March for Peace and Nonviolence arrives in Geneva - Nov. 9
IPB Secretary-General Colin Archer spoke at the rally organised to greet the arrival of the World March in Geneva on November 9.
La Marche Mondiale invite les Suisses à se prononcer en faveur de l’interdiction d’exporter du matériel de guerre à l’étranger.
Suisse Genève; November 09, 2009. La marche mondiale pour la paix et la non violence a fait halte lundi à Genève. Le maire de Genève, Rémy Pagani, a apporté son soutien à la marche, en dénonçant des dépenses militaires chiffrées à 1500 millliards de dollars dans le monde et l’hypocrisie de la Suisse. Dani Horowitz, a déclaré «Nous ne pouvons pas justifier la création d’emploi au détriment de la vie d’autrui» See the report (French).
Worldmarch site:  http://www.theworldmarch.org/index.php?secc=news&acc=verid&newsid=406.

PEACE BUREAU TO AWARD MACBRIDE PEACE PRIZE TO BETTY REARDON
Nov. 4, 2009.   The International Peace Bureau announced today that its annual award, the Sean MacBride Peace Prize, will be given to the pioneering peace educator Dr. Betty Reardon. IPB President Tomas Magnusson declared: “Betty Reardon’s contribution to peace education and to the wider peace movement is unique. She helped lay the intellectual foundations for a whole new cross-disciplinary field at a time when the political atmosphere was intensely hostile. She has influenced thousands of educators who have read her work and attended her courses. In particular she has contributed powerfully to the development of a feminist analysis of peace questions and has been able to place it in a fully global perspective – a fact that is testified by the number of visiting professorships and advisory positions she has been invited to take up in locations all over the world.”
IPB wishes to record its deep appreciation of the contribution made by the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (member organisation), who have covered the production costs and made the arrangements for the medal every year since the inception of the Prize. See MORE

IPB VICE-PRESIDENT ALYN WARE WINS RIGHT LIVELIHOOD PRIZE
IPB congratulates its Vice-President Alyn Ware on receiving the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, which was established in 1980 to honour and support those "offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today". It has become widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' and there are now 137 Laureates from 58 countries.  Presented annually in Stockholm at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament, the Right Livelihood Award is usually shared by four recipients. One of them may receive an Honorary Award, given to a person or group whose work the Jury wishes to recognise but who is not primarily in need of monetary support. The others share the prize money, which, in 2009, will be EUR 150,000. The prize money is for ongoing successful work, never for personal use.
Alyn's work has covered peace education, nuclear weapons abolition, the World Court Project and more recently the coordination of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament network.  http://www.rightlivelihood.org/ware.html
MORE>>>HERE.

IPB launches new book on nuclear costs, Hiroshima Day 2009
Tomorrow August 6 a whole range of actions will be organised around the world to mark the 64th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima by atomic weapons. For 64 years people from all walks of life in all parts of the planet have mobilised to bring about their elimination.  Nuclear weapons not only threaten massive destruction, but they also incur enormous costs. Apart from the damage caused by blast, fire and radioactive fallout from actual use in warfare, the weapons impose major financial, moral and political costs on nuclear weapons states and countries that host the weapons. The US alone spends annually over US$ 50 billion on its nuclear arsenal, and the global annual total is around  $90 billion. At a time of global economic crisis, when the international community is also struggling to come up with ways to respond to climate challenge and dwindling energy resources, can this be the right use of public money?
It is therefore an appropriate moment for IPB to publicly launch its new publication on this subject. In contrast to earlier studies which looked at single countries, Nuclear Weapons: At What Cost? offers a survey of the costs of the nuclear weapons programmes of all the relevant states – even though in some cases the exact figures are difficult to obtain.>>> FULL TEXT
Published by IPB 2009, 150pp approx, A5. ISBN: 92-95006-05-4. Price 25 CHF incl. postage. Click HERE for flyer
NOTE: A new edition of our Publications Catalogue is now available on our Publications page: http://ipb.org/i/newsletters-and-publications/newsletters-and-publications-generic/VI-generic-newsletters-and-publications.html