NGOs will have one room assigned to them throughout the PrepCom.
Use of this room is divided up into three time slots: 10:00AM–1:00PM,
1:15–2:45PM, and 3:00–6:00PM.
To schedule your event:
See the schedule below to find an available date and time
Email info[at]reachingcriticawill.org
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:
NGO Orientation
Where: Church Center for the United Nations, 777 UN Plaza
(First Ave and 44th St), 2nd floor
When: 1:00–3:00 PM
Contact: Lacy Orme, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org Please RSVP to this event.
Monday, 4 May
Morning Vigil (all faiths and none are welcome)
Where: Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunche Park, opposite the UN
When: 7:45 AM
Contact: ccnd@gn.apc.org,
Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Website:
US prospects for Nuclear Free Future
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: Carol Urner,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section
Website:
Renewable Energy: Cheaper, Safer, Smarter than Nuclear
Energy Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Jennifer Nordstrom,
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Website:
Evaluating Obama: progress for global abolition
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 3:00–6:00 PM
Contact: Sam Akaki,
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Website:
Meeting of the New Agenda Group
Where: Conference Room D
When: 3:00–6:00 PM
Contact: Nanis Fahmy,
Egyptian Council For Foreign Affairs
Website:
The Strangest Dream
Where: Conference Room 1
When: 6:00–8:00 PM
Contact: Jeffrey Boutwell,
Pugwash Conferences
Website:
A documentary film from the National Film Board of Canada
about Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science
and World Affairs. Co-sponsored by the UN Office for Disarmament
Affairs and the National Film Board of Canada. Opening remarks
by High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Sergio Duarte
and former Under-Secretary-General Jayantha Dhanapala.
Conference Room E in use from 6:00 - 8:00 PM.
Tuesday, 5 May
Morning Vigil (all faiths and none are welcome)
Where: Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunche Park, opposite the UN
When: 7:45 AM
Contact: ccnd@gn.apc.org,
Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Website:
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Maged Abdel Fattah of
Egypt
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 9:00–9:50 AM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Room D in use from 9:00-1:00.
Toward a decisive decade for nuclear disarmament, 2010-2020 Where: ECOSOC Chamber
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: Jackie
Cabasso, Mayors for Peace
; Sponsored by the government of Mexico. Speakers include:
Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshoma, President of Mayors
for Peace; Mayor Tomihisu Taue of Nagasaki, Vice-President
of Mayors for Peace; Hans Blix, Chair, Weapons of Mass Destruction
Commission (video message); Tom Cochran, Executive Director,
U.S. Conference of Mayors (invited); Mayor Franklin Cownie,
Des Moines, Iowa; Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (invited);
international mayors forum; other speakers to be confirmed.
The Cry of Creation
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–1:00PM
Contact: Charles Osango,
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Kenya
Website:
Meeting of the New Agenda Group
Where: Conference Room D
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: Nanis Fahmy,
Egyptian Council for Foreign Relations
Website:
Prospects, Scope and Verification of a Fissile Material
(Cutoff) Treaty
Presented by the International Panel on Fissile Materials
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Zia Mian,
International Panel on Fissile Materials
Website:
A Multilateral Approach to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Can
It Strengthen the NPT?
Where: Conference Room 8
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact:
International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
and Disarmament
Where: Conference Room 1
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Sarah
deZoeten, Australian Mission to the UN or Toru
Namatame, Japanese Mission to the UN
Sponsored by the Australian and Japanese Missions in coordination
with the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
and Disarmament
NGO Presentations
Where: Conference Room 1
When: 3:00–6:00 PM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website:
Morning Vigil (all faiths and none are welcome)
Where: Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunche Park, opposite the UN
When: 7:45 AM
Contact: ccnd@gn.apc.org,
Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Website:
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Mexico
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 9:00–9:50 AM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
How to develop the mobilization of public opinion for
nuclear disarmament and support the Nuclear Weapons Convention?
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: Pierre
Villard, Le Mouvement de la Paix
Website:
Progressive Initiatives
Where: Conference Room 1
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Jim Wurst,
Middle Powers Initiative
Website:
Speakers include: Hon. Gareth Evans of the International
Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament;
GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley; Hideo Hiraoka, Member
of the Japanese Diet. MPI Chairman Henrik Salander to chair.
Co-sponsored by the Government of Austria.
World March for Peace and Nonviolence
Where: Conference Room 9
When: 1:15-2:45
Contact: Tony Robinson,
World without Wars
Sponsored by the Chilean Mission.
Nuclear Renaissance: Non-Proliferation and Shared Responsibilities
Where: Conference Room 8
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact:
Co-sponsored by the government of France. Sandwiches available
from 1:00 PM.
United States and Article VI
Where: Conference Room A
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: US Mission
New Prospects for Nuclear Abolition
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 3:00–6:00 PM
Contact: Rick Wayman,
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Website:
Art. 6 NPT: Legal issues and German perspectives
A panel discussion between IALANA and a Representative of
the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Where: Conference Room D
When: 3:00–5:00 PM
Contact: Imke Kügele,
IALANA - German section
Website:
{Conference Room D is booked by the Nuclear Suppliers Group
from 10:00-3:00}
Morning Vigil (all faiths and none are welcome)
Where: Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunche Park, opposite the UN
When: 7:45 AM
Contact: ccnd@gn.apc.org,
Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Website:
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador John Duncan of the United Kingdom
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 9:00–9:50 AM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
ICAN: The NPT and the Nuclear Weapons Convention Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: John Loretz,
IPPNW
Website:
Co-sponsors: International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War, Parliamentarians Network for Nuclear Disarmament,
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms,
Abolition 2000, and the International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Voices from Experience
Where: Conference Room 1
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Rhianna
Tyson, Global Security Institute
Website:
Speakers include High Representative Sergio Duarte, former
Under-Secretaries-General Nobuyasu Abe and Jayantha Dhanapala,
and UN Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas.
Co-sponsored by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs
Center on International Cooperation (CIC): CTBT developments
Where: Conference Room 8
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Good Faith Disarmament: The Need for a Second Opinion
from the World Court
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 3:00–4:30 PM
Contact: John Burroughs,
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Website:
Speakers include Bonnie Docherty, Harvard International
Human Rights Clinic, and John Burroughs, UN Office of IALANA,
editors of a new memorandum of law on return to the International
Court of Justice.
Disarmament, Law, and Community: From the Local to the
Global
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 4:30–6:00 PM
Contact: John Burroughs,
Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy
Website:
Speakers include Anabel Dwyer, LCNP board member and consultant
to the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action.
Reaching Critical Will 10th Anniversary Reception
Where: Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, 10th Floor Conference
Room
When: 6:00–8:00 PM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Morning Vigil (all faiths and none are welcome)
Where: Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunche Park, opposite the UN
When: 7:45 AM
Contact: ccnd@gn.apc.org,
Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Website:
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing will be held at 12:00 PM today
NATO, European Union, Nuclear weapons
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: Pierre
Villard, Le Mouvement de la Paix
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Boniface G. Chidyausiku
of Zimbabwe (PrepCom Chair)
Where: Conference Room D
When: 12:00–1:00 PM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
An Update on the UK/Norway/VERTIC research cooperation
into the verification of nuclear disarmament Where: Conference Room A
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education: Yes, we
can! Practical Ways and Tools to Raise Public Awareness
through Education and Its Role in Strengthening the NPT Where: Conference Room 8
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Michiru
Nishida, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Co-sponsored by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs and
the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
Light meals will be provided.
The role of parliamentarians in advancing a nuclear
weapons-free world
Where: Conference Room D
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Alyn Ware, Parliamentaries
for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Website:
The NPT and Nuclear Technology: Article IV, Peaceful
Use, and Safeguards
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Christopher Ford,
Hudson Institute
Website:
Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting
Where: Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor Conference
Room
When: 9:00 AM–4:00 PM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Sunday, 10
May
Healing Prayers for Conference
Where: TBA
When: 10:00 AM–1:00PM
Contact: Charles Osango,
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Kenya
Website:
Monday, 11 May
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
No government briefing this morning.
Nuclear Bailout: The Costs and Consequences of Renovating
the Nuclear Weapons Complex
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Contact: Frida
Berrigan, New America Foundation
Website:
Are New Nuclear Warheads needed for Safety and Reliability
of the US Arsenal? Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Lisa Ledwidge,
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Website:
Nuclear disarmament and human security (tentative
title)
Where: Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor Conference
Room
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Hiro Sakurai,
Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
Website: ;
The United States Nuclear Posture Review: Overview
Where: Conference Room 8
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: US Mission
What 1540 Could Be: An Equitable Approach to Nonproliferation
in a Globalizing World
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 3:00–6:00 PM
Contact: Veronica
Tessler, Stanley Foundation
Website:
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Marius Grinius of
Canada
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 9:00–9:50 AM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
NWD Simulation - Negotiation Article VI (Phases of Implementation)
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: Regina
Hagen, INESAP
Website:
Operational Status of Nuclear Weapon Systems
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 1:15 AM–2:45 PM
Contact: John Hallam,
Nuclear Flashpoints
NPT Safeguards
Where: Conference Room 8
When: 1:15 AM–2:45 PM
Contact: International Atomic Energy Agency
NWD Simulation - Negotiation Article VI (Phases of Implementation)
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 3:00–6:00 PM
Contact: Regina
Hagen, INESAP
Website:
Wednesday, 13 May
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
No government briefing this morning.
NWD Simulation - Negotiation Article VI (Phases of Implementation)
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: Regina
Hagen, INESAP
Website:
Medical and Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 1:15–2:45 PM
Contact: Steven Starr,
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Website:
CTBT Entry Into Force
Where: Conference Room 8
When: 1:15 AM–2:45 PM
Contact:
Actions by NGOs Brainstorming for 2010
Where: Conference Room E
When: 3:00–6:00 PM
Contact: Manuel Santiago, le Mouvement de la paix
Thursday, 14 May
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Mr. Febrian Ruddyard of Indonesia
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 9:00–9:50 AM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Wag the World: The Irrational Grip of Nuclear Weapons
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Contact: Diane Perlman,
Psychologist for Social Responsibility
Towards the 2010 Conference of States Parties to Nuclear
Weapon Free Zones
Where: Conference Room D
When: 1:15 AM–2:45 PM
Contact: Alyn Ware, International
Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Website:
Time to Outlaw the Use of Nuclear Weapons
Where: Conference Room 8 When: 1:15 AM–2:45 PM
Contact: Carol
Naughton, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
Website:
Government Briefing: Ambassador Caroline Millar of Australia
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: Immediately following the close of the afternoon plenary,
which starts at 3:00 PM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Friday, 15 May
Abolition 2000 Caucus
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 8:00–8:50 AM
Contact: Anthony
Salloum, Abolition 2000
Website:
Government Briefing: Norway
Where: NGO Room (Conference Room E)
When: 9:00–9:50 AM
Contact: Ray
Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
