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IPB Newsletter Special – Bruce Kent turns 90!

Bruce Kent – A Hero for Peace

It is widely known that Bruce Kent is a Peace Super-hero. It cannot be coincidental that his name is a combination of Bruce Wayne (Batman) and Clark Kent (Superman) and his main super-powers are his sense of justice and love of people. If you have seen Bruce speak you will know that he has a gift for it – he can pare an issue down to its fundamental ethical questions in a way that is understandable and often tinged with humour and accompanied by one of his many stories. If you have met him you will know that he has an ability to make you feel like an old friend, even if you have never met before.

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Evaluation of IPB´s Side Events during the NPT PrepCom 2019

The 2019 Chair’s reflection on the Prepcom has set the challenge for 2020: “The 50th Anniversary of the entry into force, and the 25th Anniversary of the indefinite extension of the Treaty in 2020, require a demonstrable commitment to the Treaty by States parties. Looking beyond 2020 also requires reaffirming and implementing past commitments, and this is needed to maintain the integrity of the Treaty following the commemorations.” Continue reading “Evaluation of IPB´s Side Events during the NPT PrepCom 2019”

Douglas Roche – “The Dissent of a 90-Year-Old”

The Dissent of a 90-Year-Old

Address by Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C. Presentation of Sean MacBride Peace Prize Toronto, April 25, 2019

“A 90-year-old man appears before you, sighing not for the past but crying for the future. It is not my lost youth that I pine for but a lost future for my grandchildren and their children. Nuclear weapons and climate change threaten their very existence. I dissent from public policies today that will lead to their world being blown up or burned up.

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GCOMS Final Statement 2019

The Coordinating Team of GCOMS has published its final statement for the Global Days of Action on Military Spending 2019.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has published its new report on global military spending on Monday the 29thof April 2019 and once again we feel obliged to state our concern and outrage and call on every individual and group to take action and publicly denounce this nonsense. Continue reading “GCOMS Final Statement 2019”

Post-Conference Statement – Growing Nuclear Risks in a Changing World: New Thinking and Movement Building

Statement of Reiner Braun (IPB) and Joseph Gerson (IPB, AFSC, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security) on the Conference “Growing Nuclear Risks in a Changing World: New Thinking and Movement Building, co-organised by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York Office. 

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Understanding the New Geopolitical and Military Disorders

Presentation 04-05-2019 Conference NY

Arielle Denis

Understanding the New Geopolitical and Military Disorders, their nuclear dimensions and the Forces Driving Them

I shall briefly draft the global picture as I see it in this new situation, and highlight the need to articulate how human security and common security maybe create a new concept that is related and interlinked?

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