for the NPT Preparatory
Committee
28 April - 9 May 2008
Geneva
Calendar last updated
6 May 2008
NGOs will have one room assigned to them throughout the PrepCom.
Use of this room is divided up into three time slots: 10 AM-1
PM, 1:15-2:45 PM, and 3-6 PM.
To schedule your event:
1. See the schedule below to find an available date and time
2. Email the Project
Associate to sign up for an available time slot during
the PrepCom, or to notify her of another event you have scheduled.
To request the NGO room, please specify:
The Nuclear Dilemma: Exhibition
Where: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
When: 27 February - 29 July 2008
Contact: Ashley Woods,
REAL Exhibition Development
Website: www.nucleardilemma.org/
Exhibition: From a Culture of Violence to a Culture
of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit
Where: Salle des Pas Perdus (in the Palais des Nations)
When: 28 April - 9 May 2008
Contact: Hiro Sakurai,
Soka Gakkai International
Website:
Saturday, 26 April
Ban All Nukes generation (BANg) Workshop
Contact: Nina
Eisenhardt, BANg
Website:
Demonstration against the links between the World Health
Organization and International Atomic Energy Agency
Where: In front of the World Health Organization building,
Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27
When: 2:00 - 6:00pm
Contact: André Larivière, Réseau Sortir
du nucléaire
Website:
Sunday, 27 April
NGO Welcome and Orientation
Where: 1, rue de Varembé, ground floor
When: 4-6pm
Contact: Susi Snyder,
NGO Committee for Disarmament
Ban All Nukes generation (BANg) Workshop
Contact: Nina
Eisenhardt, BANg
Website:
Monday, 28 April
NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 8:00 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Don McKay of New Zealand
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 9:00 - 10:00am
Contact: Susi Snyder,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Website:
The EU and the Nuclear Weapon Convention
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
Contact: Dominique
Lalanne, Abolition 2000-Europe; co-sponsored by Mayors
for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign
Website:
Nuclear weapons: At what price? An economic, moral and
political assessment
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 3:00 - 6:00pm
Contact: Colin Archer,
International Peace Bureau, and Jonathan
Frerichs, World Council of Churches
Website:
and
NWC Simulation Game - Preparations (closed workshop)
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 6:00 - 7:00pm
Contact: Regina
Hagen, INESAP
Website:
GCSP Public Discussion: "Forty years of NPT: What
is at stake?"
Speakers: The Hon. Gernot ERLER, Minister of State at the
German Federal Foreign Office; Amb. Sergio DUARTE, United
Nations High Representative for Disarmament; Prof. William
POTTER, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Where: Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 7 bis, Avenue
de la Paix, 1211 Geneva 1
When: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Contact: Ms. Åsa Maria Granados, Geneva Centre for
Security Policy
Website: Register online by Thursday, 24 April
Le nucléaire civil et militaire, un duo indissociable
Speakers: Dominique Lalanne, Ashley Woods (Language: French)
Where: Maison des Associations, Rue des Savoises 15, Genève
When: 7:00 - 8:30pm
Contact: Isabelle
Chevalley, Sortir du Nucléaire / Sabine
von Stockar, Swiss Energy Foundation, SES
Website:
/
Tuesday, 29 April
NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 8:30 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Marius Grinius of Canada
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 9:00 - 10:00am
Contact: Susi Snyder,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Website:
City and civil society good-faith initiatives in Europe
and the Mediterranean Area in preparation for the U.N. Decade
for Disarmament, 2010 to 2020 (in English, French, German,
and Italian)
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Contact: Aaron Tovish,
Mayors for Peace
Website: ,
NGO Presentations Where: Conference Room XVIII, Building E
When: 3:00 - 6:00pm
NWC Simulation Game - Preparations (closed workshop)
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Contact: Regina
Hagen, INESAP
Website:
Public Roundtable: Why Should Nuclear Weapons be Abolished?
Speakers Ambassador Jürg Streuli of Switzerland (Language:
English)
John Burroughs (ILANA), and Reiner Braun (INES); Chairperson
Daniel Warner, GIIDS
The event will start off with a short presentation by the
President of the City Council of Florence, Eros Cruccolini:
"1954 at the Red Cross: Mayor of Florence declares
'Cities Are Not Targets!'"
Where: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum Auditorium
When: 6:30pm
Contact: Ashley Woods,
REAL Exhibition Development; Reiner
Braun, IALANA / INES;Aaron
Tovish, Mayors for Peace
Website:
/
Wednesday, 30 April
NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 8:30 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Jürg Streuli of
Switzerland
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 9:00 - 10:00am
Contact: Susi Snyder,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Website:
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN):
How NGOs Can Mobilize for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Contact: John Loretz,
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
(IPPNW)
Website:
Protecting Cities from the Scourge of War
Where: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum Auditorium
When: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Contact: Aaron Tovish,
Mayors for Peace
Website: ,
2010-2020: from Survival to Success! (in English,
French, German, and Italian)
Where: Assembly Hall
When: 1:15-2:45pm
Contact: Aaron Tovish,
Mayors for Peace
Website: ,
Co-organized with , and sponsored by the Permanent Mission
of Mexico to the United Nations, Geneva
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education
Government of Japan and United Nations Institute for Disarmament
Research
Where: Room XI
When: 1:15pm - 2:45pm
Contact: Nicolas Gerard,
UNIDIR
Website:
Preventing a new nuclear arms race: opposing Trident
replacement and the US Missile Defence system
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 3:00 - 6:00pm
Contact: Sam Akaki,
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Website:
NWC Simulation Game - Preparations (closed workshop)
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 6:00 - 7:00pm
Contact: Regina
Hagen, INESAP
Website:
Opening Reception for Exhibition: From a Culture of
Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit
Where: Salle des Pas Perdus (in the Palais des Nations)
When: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Remarks by Chairperson Volodymyr Yel'chenko, High Representative
Sergio Duarte, and Susi Snyder, President of the NGO Committee
on Disarmament
Contact: Hiro Sakurai,
Soka Gakkai International
Website:
The New Nuclear Threat? Engaging Youth to End the Danger
Where: Ecumenical Center, 150, Rte de Ferney, Grand Saconnex
When: 6:00 - 8:00pm
Contact: Beatrice Merahi,
World Council of Churches
Website:
Thursday, 1 May
GENEVA HOLIDAY - NO SESSION
Good Faith, International Law, and Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons:
The Once and Future Contributions of the International Court
of Justice Keynote: Judge Mohammed Bedjaoui, former president of
ICJ (10:15am)
Where: Hotel Warwick, 14 Rue de Lausanne (opposite the main
train station)
When: 9:30am - 6:00pm
Contact: John Burroughs,
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
and World Court Project to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Website: Flyer:
Presention of The Nuclear Dilemma exhibition
Where: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
When: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Contact: Ashley Woods,
REAL Exhibition Development
Website:
/
Friday, 2 May
A Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty and its Verification:
Progress Report from the International Panel on Fissile
Materials (IPFM)
International Panel on Fissile Materials and United Nations
Institute for Disarmament Research
Where: Room IX
When: 8:00am -10:00am (breakfast provided)
Contact: Frank von
Hippel and Dorothy
L. Davis, International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM)
Website:
The US-India Nuclear Deal and the NPT: The Role of Nuclear
Weapons States and Non-Weapon States
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Contact: Philip White,
Coordinator, Abolition 2000 US-India Deal Working Group
Website:
Working Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Nuclear Threat Initiative
and United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Where: Assembly Hall
When: 1:15pm - 2:45pm
Contact: Nicolas Gerard,
UNIDIR
Website:
and
NWC Simulation Game - Preparations (closed workshop)
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 6:00 - 7:00pm
Contact: Regina
Hagen, INESAP
Website:
Saturday, 3 May
Abolition 2000 Annual General Assembly
Where: 1, rue de Varembé, conference room
When: 10:00am - 6:00pm (TBC)
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website:
Ban All Nukes generation (BANg) Model Convention
Where: Ecole International de Genève, La Grande Boissière,
62 route de Chêne, 1208 Genève
When: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Contact: Nina
Eisenhardt, BANg
Website:
Sunday, 4 May
Organizing for a Return to the International Court of
Justice on the Nuclear Disarmament Obligation
Where: 1, rue de Varembé, conference room
When: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Contact: John Burroughs,
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
and World Court Project to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Soltaniea of Iran
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 9:00 - 10:00am
Contact: Susi Snyder,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Website:
Military Research
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 10:15 - 12:00am
Contact: Reiner Braun,
International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global
Responsibility (INES)
Website:
Operational Status of Nuclear Weapon Systems
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Contact: John Hallam,
Nuclear Flashpoints
NPT: Pathfinder to a Nuclear Weapon Free World Report from the Middle Powers Initiative's Dublin Article
VI Forum Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 1:15-2:45pm
Contact: Jim Wurst,
Middle Powers Initiative
Website:
UK Atomic Weapons Establishment: Verification of nuclear
disassembly
Where: Room IX
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
US Presentation: Article VI
Where: Room XI
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
Contact: US Delegation
Environmental Aspects of Nuclear Energy (tentative title)
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 3:30 - 5:30pm
Contact: Regina
Hagen, INESAP
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Caroline Millar of Australia
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 9:00 - 10:00am
Contact: Susi Snyder,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Website:
GNEP and the nuclear fuel cycle
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
Contact: Nick Roth,
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Website:
The Entry Into Force of the CTBT: New Opportunities
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Where: Room XI
When: 1:15pm - 2:45pm
Contact: Nicolas Gerard,
UNIDIR
Website:
Government Briefing
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 9:00 - 10:00am
Contact: Susi Snyder,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Website:
Building on the momentum for disarmament: what can NPT
states realistically do today?
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
Contact: Paul Ingram,
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Website:
US Eliminations Under the INF Treaty and Additional
Reductions
Where: Room XI
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
Contact: US Delegation
