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Calendar of side events for the 2026 NPT Review Conference

Side events that can be accommodated within the room allocated for civil society will be scheduled by Reaching Critical Will. Please email Laura Varella (laura.varella[at]wilpf.org) 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.  

(Calendar last updated 15 January 2026)

 

MONDAY, 27 APRIL

 

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TUESDAY, 28 APRIL

 

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10:00 - 12:00 Mayors for Peace Youth Forum NGO Room Mayors for Peace
Contact: Koji Nagai
13:00 - 15:00 Scientific Impacts of Nuclear Weapons NGO Room Hiroshima Prefectural Government, Nagasaki Prefectural Government and Pugwash 
Contact: Kaede Fukunaga

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 29 APRIL

 

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13:00 - 15:00 Preventing backsliding on nuclear disarmament NGO Room  Hiroshima Prefectural Government/ Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe)
Contact: Sakurako Sato

 

THURSDAY, 30 APRIL

  

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10:00 - 13:00 Bolstering the NPT Amid Renewed Nuclear Risks: Insights from Three Major Civil Society Reports NGO Room JIIA Center for Disarmament, Science and Technology (CDAST), under the direction of Professor Nobumasa AKIYAMA, Director of CDAST and Professor at Hitotsubashi University
Contact: Timothée Albessard
13:00 - 15:00 Non-NPT states and Nuclear Disarmament : Perspectives from the Global South NGO Room Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
Contact:
Dr. Deepshikha Kumari Vijh 
15:00 - 18:00 Beyond (Extended) Deterrence and Military Alliances:Building Lasting Peace and Denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia NGO Room Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK)
Contact: Kihoon Lee

 

 

FRIDAY, 1 MAY

 

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10:00 - 13:00  Reflecting on State Obligations under Article VI of the NPT and the 1996  ICJ Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons NGO Room  Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, UN Office for International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Contact: Dr. Deepshikha Kumari Vijh
MONDAY, 4 MAY

 

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13:00 - 15:00 Mobilizing scientific communities to advance nuclear disarmament NGO Room Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security
Contact: Zia Mian
TUESDAY, 5 MAY

 

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13:00 - 15:00 Emerging Technologies and Nuclear Weapons Risks NGO Room  Princeton University Program on Science and Global SecurityContact: Zia Mian
WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY

 

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THURSDAY, 7 MAY

 

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FRIDAY, 8 MAY

 

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