The Consultation will involve high-level representatives
of select governments as well as expert practitioners in the
field and will be modeled after the successful "Atlanta
Consultation I" that MPI held at the Carter Center in
2000. The first Atlanta Consultation made a significant contribution
to the 2000 NPT Review Conference.
Middle Powers Initiative
Zachary Allen, MPI Program Director
Tel: +1 415 397 6760
fax: +1 415 397 6761 or e
Email: zack@gsinstitute.org
Atlanta, GA
26-31
World Social Forum
Nuclear abolition groups are organizing a seminar - the
Global Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons - and
calling for worldwide demonstrations on May 1st for nuclear
disarmament.
Dr. Hans Blix “Arms control and disarmament –
The Iraq affair” and “International integration
and the development of the UN”
Discussion with Dr. Blix, Chair of
the Independent Commission
International Peace Foundation
Mariahilfer Strasse 58
1070 Vienna
Austria
Email: office@peace-foundation.net
Thailand contact numbers:
Tel: +66 (0) 2 267 3177
Fax: +66 (0) 2 267 3077
Stockholm
19
Nuclear Abolition
Symposium -- Make the year 2005, the 60th anniversary of
atomic
bombings, a turning point for the move forward to nuclear
abolition !
To raise the Japanese public sense of urgency
through discussion among the citizens, Mayors from Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, Diet members, Foreign Ministry officials,
and
NGOs, for the purpose of making the year 2005 a turning
point
that generates a new and concrete drive for nuclear abolition
Public forum: "Nuclear Disarmament and the Health
of the NPT"
Public discussion
Project Ploughshares
57 Erb Street West
Waterloo, Ontario
Tel: 519-888-6541 x702
Email: sestabrooks@plouhshares.ca
Ottawa
25-27
Reaching Nuclear Disarmament- new Challenges and Possibilities
Conference on the NPT and the Independent Commission on
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Swedish Network for Nuclear Disarmament
Box 4134
102 63 Stockholm
tel: 08-702 18 30
Email: jens.petersson@svenskafreds.se
Stockholm
28, 5 PM
Seminar at the Nobel Institute: "The NPT in danger
- What can be done?"
Speeches by:
Senator Douglas Roche, the former UN ambassador of Canada
and Chairman of Middle Powers Initiative
Norwegian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Traavik.
Comments by:
Finn Erik Thoresen, Vice-president of The Norwegian Confederation
of Trade Unions (LO)
Professor Bent Natvig from the Norwegian Pugwash Committee
Babs Sivertsen from the Peace Group in The Norwegian Forum
for Environment and Development (ForUM)
Christin Ormhaug from IPPNW Norway
Organizers: No to Nucelar Weapons, the Norwegian Pugwash
Committee, Forum and IPPNW
No to Nuclear Weapons
Stine Rødmyr
Tel: +47 918 70 774
fax: +47 22 15 87 96
Email: srodmyr@yahoo.no
Website:
50th anniversary of the first deliverable hydrogen
bomb test "Bravo" at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
3
7-8:30 PM
THE DEEPENING SHADOW: The US at War in the Nuclear Age
A conversation with Nation Institute Fellow and award-winning
author
Jonathan Schell and
Frances FitzGerald.
Admission: $10/ students free. Books will be available
for sale, and a book signing will follow the event.
Advance reservations strongly recommended. Doors open 6:30
PM. Seating cannot be guaranteed after 6:50 PM.
To reserve, go to
or call 866-468-7619. For more
information, call 212-209-5400, ext.5462.
Theresa Lang Center, 55 W. 13th Street, 2nd floor (between
5th and 6th
Avenues)
New School University, NYC
11 March 2005
9am – 3pm
a one day seminar
The Nuclear Challenge
Australia and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2005
This seminar is designed for parliamentarians, political
advisors, academics and non-government organisations to:
highlight the joint aims of the NPT - nuclear disarmament
and nuclear non-proliferation
inform and strengthen Australia’s role in the upcoming
Review Conference (being held 2-27 May 2005 at the United
Nations in New York)
elaborate on the 13 Step Action Plan agreed to at the
2000 Review Conference
Confirmed speakers include:
Ron Walker - former Special Disarmament
Adviser, Ambassador to the UN Geneva, Ambassador to the
UN Vienna and Chairman of the Board of Governors IAEA
Senator Lyn Allison – Active Member
of PNND Australia and Leader of the Australian Democrats
Dr Marianne Hanson – Director, Rotary
Centre for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution
and Snr Lecturer in International Relations, School of Political
Science and International Studies at University of Queensland
Prof Kevin Clements – Director, the
Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University
of Queensland
Dr Sue Wareham – President, Medical
Association for Prevention of War
Alyn Ware – Global Coordinator, PNND
representatives from non-government organisations
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shadow
Minister for Foreign Affairs and representatives from nuclear
weapons states have also been invited to speak
RSVP by 28 February to:
Dimity Hawkins
Executive Officer, Medical Association for Prevention of
War
Main Committee Room, Parliament House
Canberra Australia
11-14
Global Security and Nuclear Weapons Danger Track: Ecumenical
Advocacy Days
Global Security is an important political, personal
and theological issue in today’s world. You are invited
to join us as we explore this issue and prepare to visit
our senators and representatives on Monday, March 14. You
can register at www.advocacydays.org for $135 for the entire
conference. You may also attend any particular day of the
event for $50. Please indicate that you will attend daily
on your registration form and that you will be attending
the Global Security and Nuclear Weapons Danger Track.
ECUMENICAL CENTRE, RTE DE FERNEY
(bus 5 to Crets de Morillon), Geneva
12
9 AM- 4 PM
60 Years of the Nuclear Age
Nuclear Abolition – Prospects and Initiatives
Six decades after the use of atomic weapons, the danger
of nuclear annihilation persists and the world faces a “cascade
of proliferation”, as recently pointed out by the
UN Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Threats,
Challenges and Change.
Drawing from their areas of expertise, the panelists will
reflect on the historical, legal and environmental implications
of the existence of these devastating weapons throughout
the last 60 years.
In 2005 two major events will draw the world’s attention
to the dangers of delaying the abolition of nuclear weapons:
in May, international leaders will converge in New York
for the Review Conference of the NPT, the cornerstone of
the non-proliferation regime; and in August, people around
the world will be paying their homage to the victims of
the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At this crucial
moment, the panelists will reflect on the prospects for
nuclear abolition and will examine the variety of initiatives
underway in this area.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact
Dulce Fernandes at 212-726 9161 or dfernandes@gracelinks.org
--
Graduate Center, The City University of New
York, Room 9204-06
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Stree
15
3:30 PM to 8:00 PM
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, ACTIVISM AND THE ARTS
The Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University
Steinhardt School of Education, Professor Hiroshi Sunairi
and Ombretta Agró would like to invite you to a two-session
symposium on nuclear disarmament, activism and the arts
212.254.8713 / sunairi@verizon.net
Department of Art and Art Professions
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York
(Between 3rd and 2nd Avenues)
Einstein Auditorium
New York
24
8:00 p.m.
A TALK ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION
with Dr. Lawrence Witner, Author, Toward Nuclear Abolition
Staten Island OutLOUD (718)907-0709,
or , Peace Action of Staten Island (718)448-7502
Unitarian Universalist Society of Alban, 405
Washington Avenue
26
6:00 PM
MULTIPLYING NUCLEAR DANGERS: Can the Nonproliferation
Regime Meet the Challenge?
with Judge Christopher George Weeramantry, President,
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
and the New York County Lawyers Association
michael@lcnp.org
NYCLA Home of Law, 14 Vesey St., b/t Broadway
& Church
26-28
Civil society forum on nuclear weapon free zones:
Side event to the Conference of States Parties to Nuclear
Weapon Free Zones
Parliamentarians, mayors, disarmament experts and other
members of civil society will be gathering in Mexico from
April 26-28 to support an initiative of the Mexican government
to bring together the world’s nuclear weapon free
zones as a step towards preventing nuclear proliferation
and achieving global nuclear disarmament.
Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator for Parliamentary
Network for Nuclear Disarmament
alyn@pnnd.org
(01) 646 752 8702. Paloma Ayala Vela, Civil Society Forum
Coordinator paloma_ayalavela@yahoo.com.mx Phone (52) 777
314 61 75 (11 - 3 pm) or (01) 777 1753804 (cell)
Senator Dulce María Sauri Riancho, Co-Chair of the
Civil Society Forum asiapacifico.comision@senado.gob.mx
Phone (55) 5345 3000 Ext. 3433
Mexico City
27
1-3 pm
Peace Education and International Law
Open to the public, no charge.
Hague Appeal for Peace. RSVP
to sabrina@haguepeace.org (so they know how many to expect
for lunch).
Church Center, 777 UN Plaza (44th & 1st
Ave., 10th floor conference room
28
2- 5:30 PM
Seminar focusing on the threats posed by nuclear
proliferation
in North Korea, South Korea and Japan.
Leading experts to share information and solutions on
growing nuclear threat in North East Asia
Mary MacNutt, Greenpeace International,
82 18 696 1470
or Shaun Burnie, Greenpeace International, 82 11 9659 5225.
In the US: Tom Clements, Greenpeace
International, 1-202-319-2411.
National Assembly, Memorial Hall Auditorium,
Room No. 104,
Seoul, Republic of Korea
30
8 PM
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Reflections
A special community gathering, in cooperation with the
United Nations. Sponsored by Staten Island OutLOUD. Co-sponsored
by Peace Action of Staten Island.
The Hibakusha (survivors of Hiroshima-Nagasaki) are our
special guests at this community gathering. They'll engage
in dialogue with us, and they'll share their personal stories,
followed by a candlelight procession in memory of the war
dead. We'll read poetry in English and in Japanese -- anyone
can join in, or just sit back and enjoy being read to!
Church of St. Andrew, 40 Old Mill Road, Staten
Island, NY 10305
30
1:30-4:00pm
2005 NPT RevConf. Open Forum with Government
Representatives
Yayoi Tsuchida, Japan Gensuikyo
antiatom@topaz.plala.or.jp or jojoi@ballade.plala.or.jp
Website: http://www10.plala.or.jp/antiatom/html/e/e-index.htm
Cathedral of St. John's the Divine (122 St.
Amsterdam Ave.)
30
12PM-9PM
Full Spectrum Resistance - An International
Space Organizing Forum
Annual Membership Conference of the Global Network Against
Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space to share information, develop
new strategies, and inspire the many efforts to ensure space
is kept as an environment of peace. Michio Kaku will be the
keynote speaker. Registration cost for the forum is on a sliding
scale and there is limited home hospitality available.
Global Network Against Weapons and
Nuclear Power in Space Bruce K. Gagnon, President
Email: globalnet@mindspring.com
tel: (207) 729-0517
Musicians Union Hall, 322 W. 48th Street, New
York City
