Peace Education

Anuradha Chenoy is a former collaborator of IPB and was 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.

Selected Publications

BRICS Foreign Ministers Meet, Strategic Mirroring of West Asian Ruptures,  Economic and Political Weekly, To the Point,  May 22, 2026  URL: at at https://www.epw.in/engage/article/brics-foreign-ministers-meet-strategic-mirroring

US-Iran War:  Strategic Wins and Geopolitical Compulsions, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.61, No.19, May 09, 2026  URL: at https://www.epw.in/journal/comment/us-iran-war-strategic-wins-and-geoeconomic.html

‘Iran’s Resilience, USA’s Hubris, Israel’s Malevolence’, Economic and Political Weekly,  Vol 61, No.15,  April 11, 2026, at: https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/15/comment/irans-resilience-uss-hubris-israels-malevolence.html

‘War on Iran becomes Regional and threatens Human Security’,  Economic and Political Weekly,  Vol 61, No.11, March 14, 2026, at: https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/11/comment/war-iran-becomes-regional-and-threatens-human.html

‘The US-Israeli War on Iran: Strategies and Tactics at a Glance’ The Wire,  March 10, 2026 at: https://thewire.in/world/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-strategies-and-tactics-at-a-glance

Theory and Practice of Imperialism 3.0, Economic and Political Weekly,  Vol 61, No.9, February 28, 2026, At:https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/9/strategic-affairs/theory-and-practice-imperialism-30.html?destination=/journal/2026/9/strategic-affairs/theory-and-practice-imperialism-30.html

‘Imperial Boardgame, Economic and Political Weekly,  Vol 61, No.5, January 31, 2026, At:  https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/5/comment/imperial-board-game.html

Anuradha Chenoy and Priti Daroka, Trade and Tariffs Wars and their Impact on Women in the Global South, BRICS Feminist Watch, January 28, 2026,  at:  https://pwescr.org/BRICS-Trade-and-Tariff.pdf

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, indigenous peoples and civil rights advocate spearheading work on making women-led peace, security, and disarmament a movement and an issue that is meaningful to people’s lives.

Selected Publications

• Manipur : Stories and Histories of my Indigenous Homeland, New York Universal Publishing House, upcoming Spring 2025
• Our Indigenous Stories (Edited), New York Universal Publishing House, Published 2022
• Deepening Democracy, Diversity and Women’s Rights in India (Edited), Published 2019
• Where are our Women in Decision Making? (Edited), CAFI published, 2016
• India and Arms Trade Treaty (Edited) by India Research Press,2009
• South Asia’s Fractured Frontier: Armed Conflict, Narcotics & Small Arms Proliferation in India’s North East Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2002.
• Meckley : A Historical Fiction on Manipur’s Wars and Insurgencies, Virgo Publications, New Delhi, 2004
• Poetic Festoon, N Bihari Singh, Imphal, Manipur 1992.

Journal

• Borderlines Journal : A Journal of Ethnic wars, Insurgencies & Peace-building Along South Asia’s Fractured
• Frontier Areas with Special Focus on Northeast India Volumes 1 No 1, 2, 3 and 4 published since June 2004 – 2006

Journal Articles

• Armed Ethnic Conflicts in Northeast India and Resurgence of Women’s Movement”, in Kaul and Vajpei
• (Edited), Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe, Springer, 2020
• India and the Cluster Munition Treaty, Strategic Analysis, July 2009 issue
• Small Wars & Insurgencies in Northeast’, Journal of Himalayan & Central Asian Studies, 5( 3 & 4), 2002.
• ‘Accord into Discord : Analysing the Conflict and the 1997 Peace Accord of Chittagong Hill Tracts’,
• Bangladesh’, Journal of Himalayan & Central Asian Studies, 7( 1 & 2), 2003.
• ‘Talking Peace & Conflict Dynamics with K. Padmanabhiah’, Manipur Research Forum, I (4), December 2001.

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 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 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.