Steven Staples is IPB’s Treasurer and former Vice-President.
He is currently the National Director of Policy and Advocacy of the Canadian Health Coalition, an accomplished policy and research strategist, published author, and award-winning peace and social justice advocate with over 25 years of experience in community organisations and the labour movement.
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Yayoi Tsuchida was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025.
She has worked at the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo) for more than 30 years in different positions. Since 2006, she has served as the Assistant General Secretary of Gensuikyo. Before that, she had been working at the League of Arab States Tokyo Office, the South Yemen Embassy, as well as the Japan Press Service.
Sooyoung Hwang was elected as board member of IPB in October 2022.
Sooyoung has worked in the field of peace and disarmament for many years. She is currently the Secretary General of the Korea Peace Appeal, a peace campaign to end the Korean war. Furthermore she is the Manager of the Center for Peace and Disarmament and Center for International Solidarity of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD). She has previously worked as Coordinator for Imagination for International Solidarity (IFIS).
Kitwe Mulunda Guy has been elected as IPB board member in October 2022.
He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Social Work and has worked on many scientific publications on social, psychological and historical aspects of human rights violations. He is a Senior Lecturer (Professor) in Humanities and Social Sciences at the CPU, South Africa and DRC since 2013 and has served as EXCOM/Council member of IRCT from 2008 to 2012. Since 2015 he is the Executive Director of SAVE CONGO.
Raza Shah Khan was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025.
He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of peace and disarmament. Raza has a master’s degree in Peacebuilding from Coventry University in the UK and has worked on several humanitarian disarmament campaigns, e.g. the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, the Cluster Munition Coalition, the International Action Network on Small Arms, and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots since then. Furthermore, he is currently the Chief Executive of the Sustainable Peace and Development Organization (SPADO), which aims to promote a peaceful environment for all people.
Oleg V. Bodrov was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. Prior to that, he was a member of the IPB Council.
He is an engineer-physicist, environmentalist and chairman of the Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Dr. Lisa Linda Natividad has been elected as IPB board member in October 2022.
She is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Guam. Lisa is also the primary convener of the Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice and a founding member of I Hagan Famalao’an Guahan. She is an indigenous CHamoru who has championed the exposure of the human rights violations against her people and homeland Guahan, which is a military colony of the United States. She has spoken globally on the topics of demilitarization, decolonization, and the critical role women play in the creation of safe and thriving communities. Dr. Natividad has presented interventions on the halting of the massive military build-up on Guahan before the United Nations Fourth Committee, Decolonization Committee, and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She is a former member of the Guam Decolonization Commission and has spoken on these issues in Japan, the Philippines, the Untied States, Norway, Ecuador, Fiji, and other countries. Dr. Natividad joined the IPB Council in March 2021.
Kate Hudson was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025.
Kate is currently General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). She have held that post since 2010 and prior to that she was Chair of CND from 2003 to 2010. Before employment with CND, she was Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University. By profession, she is a historian and has a PhD from the University of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Emily Rubino was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. She has been involved with Peace Action New York State in various capacities for the past few years and is currently the Executive Director.
Continue reading “Emily Rubino – Board Member”Sixty years ago, the world experienced a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, when the two superpowers came closest to a nuclear conflict in the midst of the Cold War. The leaders from both countries engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
Sixty years later, the world finds itself living a confrontation that flirts and mentions the threats of nuclear armament. These past months we came close to seeing how mistakes from the past still reverberate, and that on present days we need more than ever a look back to understand the seriousness of even considering the use of such weapons.
In this message, Noam Chomsky enlightens us with his experience tracing a parallel between present struggles and the Cuban Missile Crisis, highlighting different and common characteristics, and pointing out aspects that can guide us through the resolution of such conflicts in current times.
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