Tord Björk – Council Member

Tord Björk has been active in the environmental, solidarity and peace movement at international, national and international level since 1971. Against ecocidal warfare in Vietnam, nuclear power, the building of motorways, and the acidification of European forests, while also organizing alternative activities to UN conferences on environmental, development and social issues. Since early 2010, he has worked against the depopulation of the countryside in Sweden in alliance with small farmers and for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine. He has also been the international coordinator of the European Social Forum and participated in several World Social Forums. He has also been criticizing the environmental and other movements for becoming professionalized, administering a role as stakeholders together with business interests and governments rather than a movement changing society. Tord Björk is cofounder of the Network People and Peace, working for peace on earth and peace with earth, active in several committees in Friends of the Earth Sweden, Council member of the International Peace Bureau and member of the coordination group of Nordic Peace Alliance and coordinator of its working group on Helsinki+50. 

 

You can follow the activities of People and peace here: https://www.youtube.com/@folkochfred

International Peace Bureau here: https://ipb.org

Helsinki+50 here: https://helsinkiplus50.org