The International Peace Bureau (IPB) expresses our deep concern for the situation in Iran, even as the most recent protests are reported to be winding down. The repeated cycle of protests have become more regular and have been met by disproportionate and unacceptable levels of violence against legitimate demands. The thousands of Iranians killed, injured, and arrested during the past month should shock and concern everyone, even while the complete information blackout makes it difficult to determine totals. The IPB unequivocally condemns the violence of the Iranian state against protesters.
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Quantum Scientists Publish Manifesto Against the Militarization of Research
Quantum technologies are often presented in public discourse as one of the most promising scientific frontiers of the twenty-first century. The so-called “second quantum revolution” encompasses developments such as quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum sensing—technologies that are now transitioning from fundamental research to early industrial applications. While large-scale commercial deployment is still limited, concrete uses are already emerging, particularly in sensing and secure communications.
Continue reading “Quantum Scientists Publish Manifesto Against the Militarization of Research”Monaeka Flores – Board Member
Monaeka Flores has been elected as a board member in 2025.
Monaeka is the Executive Director and a founding member of Prutehi
Guåhan (formerly Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian) and a
founding member and core organizer of the collective Mariånas for Palestine.
Prutehi Guåhan is a community-based direct-action group in Guam, an “unincorporated territory” and military colony of the United States. The group is dedicated to the struggle against U.S. Imperialism and the Military Industrial Complex that is plundering and plaguing our planet.
Prutehi Guåhan works through direct action strategies, legal strategies and lawsuits, advocacy and information campaigns, community building, and international solidarity. Prutehi Guåhan want to determine a future that aligns with their indigenous values of respect, care, and sustainability.
Youngah Lee – Board Member
Youngah Lee has been elected as a board member of IPB in 2025.
Youngah Lee works at People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) as Manager of the Center for Peace and Disarmament and is also working at the secretariat of the Korea Peace Action Campaign. She has worked on peace, disarmament, international conflict and human rights issues since 2010.
Quique Sánchez Ochoa – Board Member
Quique Sánchez Ochoa was elected as an IPB board member in 2025.
Quique holds a bachelor in Political Science and a master’s degree in International Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. His career, activism and research are dedicated to peacebuilding and social and environmental justice. He works as a project manager at Centre Delàs of Peace Studies and is part of the coordination team of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS).
Reiner Braun – Board Member
Reiner Braun was a board member of IPB from 2006 to 2013, then Co-President until 2019 and subsequently Executive Director from 2019 to 2022. Following a break from 2022 to 2025, he was elected a board member in 2025 for the upcoming term (2025-2028).
Reiner studied German literature, history and journalism. He was actively involved in the ‘Krefeld Appeal’ and the actions of the peace movement in the 1980s. Reiner is on the board of the ‘NaturwissenschaftlerInnen-Initiative – Verantwortung für Frieden und Zukunftsfähigkeit’, he is a founder and long-standing managing director of INES (International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility) and was managing director of IALANA (International Lawyers against Nuclear Weapons) and the VDW (Federation of German Scientists, German Pugwash group).
Francis Daehon Lee – Board Member
Francis Daehon Lee has been elected as a board member of IPB in 2025.
Francis Daehoon Lee has been a professor for peace studies at SungKongHoe University, Ritsumeikan University and the International University of Japan. He served as legal advisor to the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Sub-commission in 2005 and worked with the Center for Peace Museum in Korea. He is the former executive director of ARENA (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives, Asia-wide) and the director of the Center for Peace and Disarmament in Korea. He has coordinated CENA (the Civil Society Education Network in Asia), a collaborating network of universities committed to peace, human rights, and democracy studies. Francis has been actively involved in facilitating UNESCO and APCEIU teacher training workshops since 2006. In 2012, he joined the Peace Education Project MOMO (PeaceMOMO) to provide school teachers and peace activists in Korea with peace education training that is based on new, learner-oriented pedagogical principles. He is also the director of the Trans-Education for Peace Institute (TEPI).
Francesco Vignarca – Board Member
Francesco Vignarca has been elected as a board member in 2025.
Francesco has been working in the field of peace and disarmament for over twenty years and has been the Coordinator of the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network Campaigns since 2020. He was previously the National Coordinator of the Italian Disarmament Network (2004-2020).
He works on the issues of military expenditures, private defence companies, military procurement, trade and arms export control, industrial reconversion,
arms race and proliferation, paths towards disarmament and nonviolence, holding both research and coordination duties in many campaigns promoted by the Italian peace movement.
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.