NPT 2008 Events

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Calendar of Events

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:

your preferred date and time;
title of your event;
contact person information; and
website address of sponsoring organization.

Ongoing | First Week | Second Week

Ongoing Events

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: www.sgi.org

Saturday, 26 April

Ban All Nukes generation (BANg) Workshop
Contact: Nina Eisenhardt, BANg
Website: www.geneva.bang-europe.org

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: www.independentwho.info

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: www.geneva.bang-europe.org

Monday, 28 April

NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 8:00 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website: www.abolition2000.org

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: www.wilpf.ch

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: www.abolition2000europe.org

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: www.ipb.org and www.oikoumene.org

NWC Simulation Game - Preparations (closed workshop)
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 6:00 - 7:00pm
Contact: Regina Hagen, INESAP
Website: www.inesap.org

WILPF Anniversary Celebration
Where: Foyer of WILPF offices
When: 6:00 - 8:00pm
Contact: Susi Snyder, WILPF
Website: www.wilpf.int.ch

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: www.gcsp.ch
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: www.sortirdunucleaire.ch / www.energiestiftung.ch

Tuesday, 29 April

NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 8:30 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website: www.abolition2000.org

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: www.wilpf.ch

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: www.2020visioncampaign.org, www.mayorsforpeace.org

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: www.inesap.org

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: www.realexpo.org / www.nucleardilemma.org

Wednesday, 30 April

NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 8:30 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website: www.abolition2000.org

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: www.wilpf.ch

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: www.ippnw.org

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: www.2020visioncampaign.org, www.mayorsforpeace.org

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: www.2020visioncampaign.org, www.mayorsforpeace.org
Co-organized with Middle Powers Initiative, 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: www.unidir.org

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: www.cnduk.org

NWC Simulation Game - Preparations (closed workshop)
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 6:00 - 7:00pm
Contact: Regina Hagen, INESAP
Website: www.inesap.org

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: www.sgi.org

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: www.oikoumene.org

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: www.lcnp.org
Flyer: http://lcnp.org/wcourt/Conf-Poster.pdf

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: www.nucleardilemma.org / www.micr.org

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: www.fissilematerials.org

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: http://cnic.jp/english/topics/plutonium/proliferation/usindia.html

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: www.nti.org and www.unidir.org

Abolition 2000-Europe General Assembly
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 3:00 - 5:00pm
Contact: Dominique Lalanne, Abolition 2000-Europe
Website: www.abolition2000europe.org

NWC Simulation Game - Preparations (closed workshop)
Where: NGO Room (Room XXV, Building E)
When: 6:00 - 7:00pm
Contact: Regina Hagen, INESAP
Website: www.inesap.org

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: www.abolition2000.org

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: www.geneva.bang-europe.org

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: www.lcnp.org

Monday, 5 May

NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 8:00 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website: www.abolition2000.org

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: www.wilpf.ch

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: www.inesglobal.com

Nuclear Free Middle East
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
Contact: Merav Datan, Greenpeace
Website: www.greenpeace.org/med

Verification of Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
UK/Norway/VERTIC
Where: Room IX
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm

The Russian Initiative on the Establishment of the Internatioal Uranium Enrichment Center
Where: Council Chamber
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm

Tuesday, 6 May

NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 8:30 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website: www.abolition2000.org

NO GOVERNMENT BRIEFING

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: www.middlepowers.org

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: www.inesap.org

Wednesday, 7 May

NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 8:00 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website: www.abolition2000.org

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: www.wilpf.ch

GNEP and the nuclear fuel cycle
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
Contact: Nick Roth, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Website: www.wagingpeace.org

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: www.unidir.org

Thursday, 8 May

NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 8:00 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website: www.abolition2000.org

Government Briefing
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 9:00 - 10:00am
Contact: Susi Snyder, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Website: www.wilpf.ch

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: www.basicint.org

US Eliminations Under the INF Treaty and Additional Reductions
Where: Room XI
When: 1:15 - 2:45pm
Contact: US Delegation

Friday, 9 May

NGO Strategy Session
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 8:00 - 9:00am
Contact: Anthony Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website: www.abolition2000.org

Government Briefing
Where: NGO Room (Room VIII)
When: 9:00 - 10:00am
Contact: Susi Snyder, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Website: www.wilpf.ch