IPB Board Members

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 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 was elected as an IPB board member in 2025.

His career, activism and research are dedicated to peacebuilding and social and environmental justice. He’s based in Barcelona, where he works as a project manager at Centre Delàs of Peace Studies. He’s been part of the coordination team of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS) since 2019.

Selected Publications

– Report 47: “Militarism and environmental crisis. A necessary reflection”
https://centredelas.org/publicacions/miiltarismandenvironmentalcrisis/?lang=en
– Report 50: Spain’s real military expenditure for 2022. Investments in weapons shoot up the Defence Budget in the middle of the pandemic.
https://centredelas.org/publicacions/elgastomilitarreal2022/?lang=en 

Reiner Braun is a German peace activist, historian, journalist, and author with decades of experience in the international peace and disarmament movement since 1980. He has held leadership roles in organisations focused on peace, nuclear disarmament, scientific responsibility, the militarization of Europe (EU and NATO), military spending, and demilitarisation.

Braun has a long association with the International Peace Bureau (IPB), serving as a board member from 2006 to 2013, Co-President from 2013 to 2019, and Executive Director from 2019 to 2022. After a break from 2022 to 2025, he returned to the IPB board in 2025 for the 2025–2028 term.

He is also a prolific author and editor, having written and contributed to numerous books and publications on peace, disarmament, common security, nuclear weapons, and the responsibility of scientists. His work includes books on Albert Einstein and the peace movement, as well as on Nobel Peace Prize laureate Joseph Rotblat. Through his activism, leadership, and writing, Braun has contributed significantly to the German and international peace movement.

Reiner Braun has written and edited a number of publications on peace, disarmament, nuclear weapons, science, and international security.

Selected publications include:

• Einstein – Peace Now!: Visions and Ideas (with David Krieger, Wiley-VCH, 2005). A collection exploring Albert Einstein’s ideas on peace, disarmament, and humanity’s responsibility in the nuclear age.
• Joseph Rotblat: Visionary for Peace (co-editor, with Robert Hinde, David Krieger, Harold Kroto and Sally Milne, Wiley-VCH, 2007). A major volume on the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Joseph Rotblat and his commitment to nuclear disarmament.
• Dem Frieden eine Chance: Truppen raus aus Afghanistan (2008). A publication advocating a peaceful alternative to the military engagement in Afghanistan.
• Kriege um Ressourcen: Herausforderungen für das 21. Jahrhundert (editor, 2008). A collection addressing conflicts over resources and their implications for the 21st century.
• Wissenschaft – Verantwortung – Frieden: 50 Jahre VDW (co-editor, 2009), examining the relationship between science, responsibility, and peace.
• Frieden durch Recht? (with Peter Becker, 2010), addressing international law and the pursuit of peace.
• Verantwortung von Wissenschaft und Forschung in einer globalisierten Welt: Forschen – Erkennen – Handeln (co-editor, 2011), focusing on the responsibilities of science and research in a globalised world.
• Perspektiven und Begegnungen – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker zum 100. Geburtstag (co-editor with Ulrich Bartosch, 2012), commemorating the German physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.
• Selbstvernichtung oder Gemeinsame Sicherheit (with Michael Müller and Peter Brandt, among others), addressing the war in Ukraine, European security, militarisation, and the concept of common security.
• Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region (author contributor, 2024), analyzing key crises in the region and developing diplomatic alternatives aimed at fostering greater peace, justice, and prosperity. 

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 has been elected as a board member in 2025.

Francesco Vignarca has worked in the field of peace and disarmament for over twenty years. Since 2020 he has been Campaigns Coordinator of Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo (the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network), having previously served as National Coordinator of the Italian Disarmament Network from 2004.

His work spans military expenditure, private defence companies, military procurement, arms trade and export controls, industrial conversion, the arms race and proliferation, and pathways toward disarmament and nonviolence, combining research with the coordination of numerous campaigns promoted by the Italian peace movement. He has extensive experience advocating before the Italian Government and Parliament and the EU institutions, taking part in numerous parliamentary hearings, meetings and conferences.

He coordinates the Italian dimension of major international campaigns, including Control Arms, the Stop Killer Robots coalition, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize), the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS), the European Forum on Armed Drones (EFAD) and the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT). He is a member of the national coordination of “Un’altra difesa è possibile,” which promotes the institutional recognition of a nonviolent, unarmed Civilian Defence, and has served in the steering groups of “Europe for Peace,” “Stop the War Now”. “Stop Rearm Europe” and the “Assisi Pace Giusta” coalition. In 2017, together with Enrico Piovesana, he founded the Mil€x Observatory on Italian Military Spending.

Vignarca holds a Master’s Degree in Astrophysics and a Master’s in Sociology focused on human and social development. He is the author of many books and articles on arms production and trade, military spending, disarmament, peace, nonviolence and the privatisation of war, and collaborates with universities and foundations on related research and events. His editorials appear in leading Italian newspapers, and he is regularly interviewed by Italian and international media.

Selected Publications

The list below is a selection of published books. In addition, Francesco Vignarca is the author or co-author of many research reports and analyses (in particular the reports of the Mil€x Observatory on Italian Military Spending and the studies published with Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo) on arms exports, military expenditure, militarisation, nuclear weapons and autonomous weapons.

Books

• Disarmo climatico (Edizioni Ambiente, VerdeNero Inchieste, 2026; preface by Nick Buxton, afterword by Vanessa Pallucchi) — https://www.edizioniambiente.it/catalogo/disarmo-climatico
• Disarmo nucleare. È ora di mettere al bando le armi nucleari. Prima che sia troppo tardi (Altreconomia, 2023) — https://www.vignarca.net/disarmo-nucleare-il-libro/
• Pace Diritto Umano (collective volume, Padova University Press, 2025) — https://www.vignarca.net/pace-diritti-umano-il-libro/
• F-35. L’aereo più pazzo del mondo (Round Robin Editrice)
• Armi, un affare di Stato (with Duccio Facchini and Michele Sasso; Chiarelettere, 2012)
• Economia armata (Altreconomia, 2011)
• Il caro armato. Spese, affari e sprechi delle forze armate italiane (with Massimo Paolicelli; Altreconomia, 2009)
• Mercenari Spa (BUR-Rizzoli, 2004)

Selected reports

• A Militarised Union. Understanding and confronting the militarisation of the European Union (co-authored with Ainhoa Ruiz, Bram Vranken, Jordi Calvo, Laëtitia Sédou and Wendela de Vries; ENAAT / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2021) English: https://stopwapenhandel.org/app/uploads/2021/09/A-militarised-Union.pdf | Italian: https://www.milex.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EU-MILI-IT-WWWDEF.pdf
• Mil€x Observatory on Italian Military Spending reports and documents: https://www.milex.org/report-e-documenti/

Full list of books: https://www.vignarca.net/libri-con-miei-contributi-su-pace-disarmo-nonviolenza/

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.