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Dragana Zivancevic- Vice President

Dragana Zivancevic is currently Vice-President of IPB and a member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Inc. (IPAN). IPAN represents over 50 organisational and 200 individual members. It is a national body comprised of peace organisations, faith organisations, trade unions and environmental and anti-nuclear groups.

Owen Tudor – Vice President

Owen Tudor is the former Deputy General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) representing 200 million trade union members worldwide, and is Secretary of the Commonwealth Trade Union Group, as well as chair of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, a member of the Independent Forum of Commonwealth Organisations steering committee and the Council of the Commonwealth Round Table editorial board. In the UK, he chairs the Fenland Labour Party and is a member of the National Council of the Labour Movement for Europe. His wife is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge (now the only women’s college) and their son is a chef.

At the ITUC, he worked with the IPB and the Olof Palme International Centre, on common security as well as health and safety at work, the pan-european regional council and the asia-pacific region. Previously, during 34 years at the British Trades Union Congress, he worked on education and training policy, social security, disability, health and safety at work and for the last 15 years, was on the TUC management committee, as Head of the European Union and International Relations Department that covered migration, trade and international development. Over his career at the TUC, he represented the trade union movement on many public bodies such as the Health and Safety Commission and the Social Security Advisory Committee, as well as serving on EU health and safety committees, taking part in the European Trade Union Confederation executive and steering committees and the ITUC general council.

Joseph Gerson- Co-President

Joseph Gerson Co-President of the International Peace Bureau, president of the Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security, a founding member of the No to War/No to NATO Network, and a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action.

He works closely with Asian and European peace and nuclear disarmament movements, was co-chair of the working group that produced the 2024 Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region Report, and is a frequent keynote speaker at the World Conference against A- & H- Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other international and U.S. forums.

A Vietnam War era anti-war organizer and draft resister, following the war he served on the staff of the War Resisters’ International in London and Brussels. In Europe, he collaborated with the International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace, including with the PLO representative to Britain and Israeli pacifists within the WRI. In 1976, after participating in a National Council of Churches and Breira fact finding mission to the Middle East, he joined the staff of the American Friends Service Committee’s New England Regional Office as a Middle East educator/organizer. He went on to help to launch the Nuclear Weapons Freeze movement and the campaigns to defeat the transformation of New York, Cranston, and New York harbors into nuclear weapons bases.. He was a leading figure in opposition to the United States’ wars with Iraq. In 2017, he launched the organization of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security.

Having worked with Japanese and other A- and H-Bomb survivors for four decades, he was a member of Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize delegation in December 2024. He was the lead organizer of international conferences and mass mobilizations and conference on the eves of the 2010, 2015 2022 and 2026 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conferences. He has organized numerous conferences as well as side events at the United Nations related to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Selected Publications

His books include Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World; With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination and The Sun Never Sets…Confronting the Network of Foreign U.S. Military Bases. His articles have appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ProAtom (Russia) The Nation, Peace Review, Common Dreams and many other publications. See Articles & Speeches – Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security. He edited the English language editions of The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I by Oishi Matashichi and The Atomic Bomb on My Back: A Life Story of Survival and Activism by Taniguchi Sumiteru.

Why ‘Common Security’ is good for business and global stability. Here’s why

By: Luc Triangle, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) at the World Economic Froum 2026

The concept of Common Security is about addressing root causes of instability: poverty, environmental degradation, exclusion and erosion of trust.
The approach is the cornerstone of sustainable, predictable and profitable global business.
Such security is not an abstract vision – it is a necessary strategy for our collective future, and business must be part of the solution.

By any measure, the world is at a crossroads. Geopolitical conflicts are escalating, climate breakdown is accelerating, economic inequality is deepening, erosion of democracy is growing.

Greenland: Not for Sale (or Conquest)

Statement by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, January 20, 2026.

The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security opposes and condemns President Trump’s imperial and neocolonial campaign of coercion to seize Greenland, an integral domain of Denmark.

Trump’s ambitions for Greenland are part of the increased strategic and commercial competition for influence and potentially control of the Arctic and the northwest passage. Greenland’s mineral wealth, including rare earth minerals, has increasing economic importance.

Appeal to the Presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States of America

On 5 February 2026, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the USA and Russian Federation, The United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START), which has limited the nuclear arms race – albeit completely inadequately – will expire. There is a danger of an unrestrained arms race, including a nuclear arms race, with far-reaching political, strategic, economic and psychological consequences, leading to even greater confrontation and destabilisation of the already volatile international situation.

Global Day of Action in Solidarity with Venezuela: January 17

No War, No Overthrow, No Coup, No Sanctions!

We are calling for an end to U.S. hostility toward Venezuela, including sanctions, threats, & war.

End all war and hostilities toward Venezuela.
Cut off the funding that allows such crimes.
Free Venezuela’s kidnapped president.
Bring all U.S. troops and equipment back to the United States from Venezuela and vicinity.
Cancel the brutal economic sanctions, naval blockade, and no-fly-zone.
Renounce overthrows and the Monroe Doctrine.
Impeach, convict, and remove President Trump from office.

Women As Agents of Change: Students of Serbia

Love is the quiet force that rebuilds what was broken. Unity is the light that guides us forward.

This is their story…

From Serbia to the world, a new vision and frequency moves through the youth, one woven with hope, compassion, and unbreakable solidarity

At the forefront of this rising are the women, whose voices, resilience, and leadership have set the tone for a new era of courage.

They show us that even in the darkest chapters of humanity, the light returns through those willing to stand together.

A reminder that humanity’s greatest revolutions begin with love and what becomes possible when we stand as ONE.

This is The Students of Serbia.

No to War, No to Abduction: IPB Calls for Global Opposition to U.S. Intervention in Venezuela

The International Peace Bureau (IPB) firmly condemns the US military strikes in Venezuela, and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife to stand trial in the US. This illegal act of war has already led to the death of civilians and military personnel alike and risks throwing both Venezuela and the wider Latin American and Caribbean region into greater instability and deeper conflict. Though the US claims that the military intervention is over, we must be wary of continued military and non-military intervention in Venezuela during this sensitive and volatile moment – as we have seen in past instances such as post-Gaddafi Libya, there is likely further instability to come.

Appeal for a Christmastime Peace in Ukraine

As Christmas approaches, the war in Ukraine is still ongoing after nearly four years, with countless lives lost, cities destroyed and grave consequences for the environment. Despite ongoing diplomatic efforts to resolve the war, there are still no signs of a breakthrough. Recent calls for a Christmas ceasefire from Zelenskyy and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz represent a renewed opportunity for an important first step towards peace – a new Christmas Ceasefire. Similar proposals have been made in past years, including by Russia in 2023, without success.