Anuradha Chenoy – Board Member

Anuradha Chenoy is a former collaborator of IPB and has been elected as a board member in 2025. Anuradha is an academic committed to peace. She is a writer who seeks to unravel geopolitics and show peace-related alternatives.

Anuradha is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal Global University in India. She is also an honorary Associate Fellow at the Transnational Institute and part of the Asia Europe Peoples Forum. She is a former Professor and Dean at the School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

She actively contributes to peace and women’s movements. Her teaching and writing centre on International Relations; Common Security, Russian and Central Asian Studies; Security Issues, Human Security, Militarization, Foreign Policy, Peace and Conflict Studies, Gender issues.

Binalakshmi Nepram – Vice President

Binalakshmi Nepram is the current Vice President of IPB and a former Board member. She is a Harvard University Fellow at the Asia Centre as well as a writer, humanitarian and civil rights activist spearheading work on making women-led peace, security and disarmament a movement and an issue that is meaningful to people’s lives.

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 IPB’s current Vice-President. He is also the Secretary of the Commonwealth Trade Union Group, which brings together 70 million workers in 46 Commonwealth countries and a member of the Executive Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative UK and the international board of CHRI. He was Deputy General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) from 2018 to 2024 and worked for TUC in Great Britain from 1984 to 2018, latterly as Head of the EU and International Relations Department. He has worked on worker safety, peace and tax, human resources and finances,  as well as international solidarity, trade and migration policy, global supply chains and Brexit and Commonwealth issues.

Joseph Gerson- Co-President

Joseph Gerson is the co-president of International Peace Bureau and President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security. His books include With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination and Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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