Calendar of side events for the 2023 NPT Preparatory Committee

Side events that can be accommodated within the room allocated to non-governmental organisations (Conference Room M4) are being scheduled by WILPF. Please email [email protected] to book the room for a side event. We will require the event name, general theme or focus, organiser/host information, and your top three preferences of date and time.

We are also happy to post information on this page about virtual and online side events. If you would like to add your event, please send an email to [email protected] with the following information: Title of the event; (co-) organisers; date, time and time zone; information on how to register/attend the event. The list of side events is being updated regularly.

(Calendar last updated 4 August 2023)

**Side events being organised by member states are listed on the UN website.

Week 1 | Week 2

Monday, 31 July

When	What	Where	Who
11:15-12:45	Nuclear Justice now - Dialogue on Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change	Conference Room M4	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Germany and Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI) and Kazakhstan Contact: Elisabeth Saar
13:15-14:45	Getting the NPT Review Cycle on the right track	Conference Room M4	European Leadership Network Contact: Alice Saltini
13:15-14:30	A.I.M. for a way forward: Youth insights for strengthening the disarmament machinery	Conference Room M2	UNODA Youth4Disarmament initiative Contact: Marykate Monaghan
13:15-14:30	International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (IGEP)	Conference Room M-BR-A	Japan Contact: Yuri Sano
13:15-14:30	Nuclear disarmament verification in practice: A field exercise to verify the absence of weapons	Conference Room M7	Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway and UNIDIR Contact: Pavel Podvig
15.30-17.30	Nuke Free Europe: Nuclear Sharing and Other Threats	Conference Room M4 Hybrid event (Register here)	International Peace Bureau (IPB) Contact: Emily Molinari and Alessandra Fontanella

Tuesday, 1 August

When	What	Where	Who
11:00-12:30	Mayors for Peace Youth Forum	Conference Room M4	Mayors for Peace Contact: Tsubasa Kawamoto
13:15-14:45	Sustainable Peace and Prosperity for All	Conference Room M4 Hybrid event (register here)	Hiroshima Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture Contact: Tadasuke Tsuchihashi
13:15-14:45	The Catastrophic Consequences of Nuclear Tests in Kazakhstan: a First-Person History	Conference Room M6	Center for International Security and Policy (Kazakhstan), Soka Gakkai International and Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan in Vienna. Contact: Alimzhan Akhmetov
13:15-14:30	What’s next for nuclear risk reduction	Press room	Switzerland and UNIDIR Contact: Andrey Baklitskiy
13:15-14:30	Feminist Foreign Policy and Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament	Conference Room M2	Germany and Vienna Center for Disarmament and NonProliferation (VCDNP) Contact: Frank Schober
13:15-14:30	Atoms4Heritage: preservation of natural and cultural heritage through irradiation ~ case studies	Conference Room M-BR-A	France and CEA/ARC Nucléart Contact: Nathalie Le Bars
15:15-17:45	Nuclear Risk Reduction - 90 seconds to Midnight	Conference Room M4 Hybrid event (register here)	The Abolition 2000 Nuclear Risk Reduction Working Group. Cosponsors: People for Nuclear Disarmament, The Human Survival Project, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND), The Global No First Use Campaign Contact: John Hallam

Wednesday, 2 August

When	What	Where	Who
10:00	Consequences of a Severe Nuclear Accident	Room CO225A C-building	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
10:30 - 12:30	The Role of Nuclear Weapons in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape	Conference Room M4 Hybrid event (Register here)	International Peace Bureau (IPB) Contact: Emily Molinari and Alessandra Fontanella
13:15 - 14:45	Looking Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: A Mid-term Perspective on Nuclear Disarmament	Conference Room M4 Hybrid event (register here)	Hiroshima Prefecture and Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) Contact: Miyako Kurosaki
13:15 - 14:30	Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons	Conference Room M2	Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Reverse The Trend, and Marshallese Educational Initiative Contact: Christian Ciobanu
13:15-14:30	2003 – 2023: Addressing North Korea’s Challenge to the Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime	Press room	France and RoK Contact: Alexander Mootoo
13:15-14:30	Advancing the complementarity of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and other disarmament and non-proliferation treaties: focus on nuclear weapons free zone treaties	Conference Room M5	Thailand, Ireland, ICAN and AFCON Contact: Athikam Dilogwathana
13:15-14:30	New findings on humanitarian consequences and risks of nuclear weapons	Conference Room M6	Austria Contact: Department for Disarmament, arms control, non-proliferation
13:15-14:30	Nuclear Solutions for the SDGs	Conference Room M7	United States, Germany and South Africa Contact: [email protected]
15:15 - 17:45	The AUKUS Submarine Deal: Risks for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime	Conference Room M4	China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA) and Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS) Contact: He Miao

Thursday, 3 August

When	What	Where	Who
11:00-12:30	No First Use as a path to Nuclear Disarmament	Conference Room M4	Soka Gakkai International, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Contact: Chie Sunada
13:15-14:45	Writing Peace: Uniting Nations with the Art of Calligraphy	Conference Room M4	Nagasaki Youth Delegation Contact: Kimiaki Kawai
13:15-14:30	Youth Empowerment Through the Creative Arts	Conference Room M5	Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Reverse The Trend, Marshallese Educational Initiative, and Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace Contact: Christian Ciobanu
13:15-14:30	Promotion of and Assistance in the Conclusion of Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols and the Amendment or Recession of Small Quantities Protocols	Conference Room M2	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Contact: Nuno Luzio
13:15-14:30	Irreversibility of nuclear disarmament	Conference Room M6	United Kingdom, Norway and VERTIC Contact: Alberto Muti
13:15-14:30	Perspectives on the Middle East WMD-Free Zone	Press Room	European Union and UNIDIR Contact: Paula Mercado Gomez
15:30-17:30	Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Nuclear Weapons	Conference Room M4 Hybrid event (Register here)	International Peace Bureau (IPB) Contact: Emily Molinari and Alessandra Fontanella
16:00-17:30 CET/ 15:00-16:30 BST	Can nuclear weapons ever deliver real security?	Virtual event (register here)	The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Contact: [email protected]

Friday, 4 August

When	What	Where	Who
11:00-12:30	The P5 Young Professionals Network	Conference Room M4	Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Project on Nuclear Issues Contact: Joseph Rodgers
13:15-14:45	Common Security v. Nuclear Weapons: How to replace the current reliance on nuclear deterrence	Conference Room M4 Hybrid event (register here)	World Federalist Movement. Cosponsors: Basel Peace Office, Global Security Institute. Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, UNFOLD ZERO and World Future Council Contact: Amy Oloo
13:15-14:30	Arms control implications of new systems and technologies	Conference Room M2	United States Contact: Debora Fisher
13:15-14:30	EU contributions to the IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme	Press Room	European Union Contact: Paula Mercado Gomez

Monday, 7 August

When	What	Where	Who
10:15-11:15	Climate Nuclear Nexus: Session 1: Moving the Nuclear Weapons Money to climate protection and SDGs.	Conference Room M4	Main organiser: Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND). Cosponsors: Basel Peace Office, Global Security Institute, Move the Nuclear Weapons Money, World Federalist Movement, World Future Council and Youth Fusion. Contact: Alyn Ware
11:30-12:45	Climate Nuclear Nexus: Session 2: The International Court of Justice Climate case and the UN Summit of the Future.	Conference Room M4	Main organiser: World Future Council. Cosponsors: Basel Peace Office, Global Security Institute, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, World Federalist Movement and World Future Council. Contact: Marie Biermann
13:15-14:45	In Discussion with Global Youth: Inheriting the Experiences of Hibakusha	Conference Room M4 Hybrid event	Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Cosponsors: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), Nyuklia Eureka, Reverse the Trend: Save Our People, Save Our Planet (RTT) and Youth for TPNW Contact: Miyuki Horiguchi
13:15-14:30	Naval nuclear propulsion and non-proliferation	Conference Room M2	Australia Contact: Jarrod Powell
13:15-14:30	Achieving the Possible: A Middle East WMD Free Zone	Conference Room M-BR-A	Ireland and Middle East Treaty Organization (METO) Contact: Tony Robinson
15:15-17:45	Nuclear Stories: Storytelling in action	Conference Room M4	Youth Fusion and DOCMINE Contact: Vanda Proskova
15:00 - 17:00	Expanding the Benefits of Ionizing Radiation: The Role of Coordinated Research Projects. The event will be followed by a reception.	The office of the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) Hybrid event (register here)	The Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) Contact: Ingrid Kirsten and Karolina Mirbach

Tuesday, 8 August

When	What	Where	Who
09:00-10:30 AEST / 01:00-02:30 CET	Challenging Nuclear Secrecy	Virtual event (register here)	Nuclear Truth Project and ICAN Australia Contact: Nuclear Truth Project
13:15 - 14:45	NWC Reset: Frameworks for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World	Conference Room M4	Abolition 2000 Contact: Alyn Ware
13:15 - 14:30	Uplifting Nuclear Safeguards in Africa - AFCONE and Finland working together for sustainability	Conference Room M7	Finland, Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland (STUK) and the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) Contact: Mr Ossi Lång
13:15 - 14:30	IAEA Flagship Initiatives on Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Science and Technology	Press Room	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Contact: Nuno Luzio
13:15 - 14:30	Navigating Nuclear Risks in Conflict: Avenues to manage and reduce risks	Room M-BR-A Hybrid event (register here)	Chatham House and Ireland Contact: Julia Cournoyer

Wednesday, 9 August

When	What	Where	Who
09:00-10:00	#3DNukeMissile at the United Nations in Vienna	UN Vienna courtyard	Abolition 2000 Contact: Alyn Ware
10:30-12:00	General Comment 36: Advancing nuclear abolition and climate protection in the UN Human Rights bodies	Conference Room M4	Main organiser: Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace. Cosponsors: Basel Peace Office, World Future Council and Youth Fusion Contact: Alyn Ware
13:15-14:45	Youth Hotline: Solutions to burning issues	Conference Room M4 (Hybrid event, register here)	Youth Fusion Contact: Vanda Proskova
13:15-14:30	The SDPU: A Renewed Pursuit of the UN SDGs Through Nuclear Science and Technology	Conference Room M7	United States, United Kingdom, CRDF Global Contact: Christine R. Martin
13:15-14:30	Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology and their Socio-economic Impact	Conference Room M5	Philippines Dan Bagaporo
15:00-16:30	New Film: “Dismantle the Doomsday Machine: Abolish Nuclear Weapons at Livermore Lab & Globally,” featuring talks by Daniel Ellsberg during protests at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in California	Conference Room M4	Western States Legal Foundation Contact: Jackie Cabasso
16:30 - 18:00	Abolition 2000 Convening	Conference Room M4	Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Contact: Jackie Cabasso

Thursday, 10 August

When	What	Where	Who
13:15 - 14:45	After Ukraine: What Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament?	Conference Room M4	The Canadian Pugwash Group (CPG) Contact: Paul Meyer
13:15 - 14:45	Continuing the Discussion on Nuclear Sites at Risk: The Seven Pillars of Nuclear Safety and Security	Conference Room M2	United States and Switzerland, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Contact: Mugeh Afshar-Tous

Friday, 11 August

When	What	Where	Who