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US speaking tour of Reiner Braun, IPB Co-President

Posted on by January 8, 2017

American Friends Service Committee and Peace Action will be hosting the national speaking tour of Reiner Braun, IPB Co-President through the month of March. Reiner is a remarkable authority and activist for peace and disarmament, who will be speaking about European responses to the Trump Regime, Nuclear Disarmament, NATO, Military Research in Universities, and Renewed European Militarism. In the Boston area (March 5-12) Reiner will be speaking at MIT, TUFTS, Wellesley and at a public meeting organized by AFSC and Mass. Peace Action. He will be speaking on Concord, N.H. for N.H. Peace Action and AFSC. His speaking tour will be taking him to New York, Washington, D.C., Delaware, North Carolina, Virginia, Oregon and Utah. For more information, contact Joseph Gerson: JGerson@afsc.org

Inspiring Youths demand more space in the Peace Movement

Posted on by November 10, 2016
pressenza05.10.2016 – Berlin, Germany – Johanna Heuveling

This post is also available in: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Greek

At the IPB Disarmament Congress in Berlin this weekend around 40 young people from 15 different nations met during a Youth Gathering. Pressenza interviewed three of them: Marie Cucurella from France, Emma Pritchard from England and Simon Ott from Germany.

Continue reading … http://www.pressenza.com/2016/10/inspiring-youths-demand-space-peace-movement/

Making It Happen: Trade Union Movement Backs A World Without Nuclear Weapons

Posted on by October 30, 2016

Philip Jennings General Secretary, UNI Global Union in THE HUFFINGTON POST 10/24/2016

UNI Global Union and its 20 million members in 150 countries welcome the discussions taking place on the draft UN General Assembly resolution to start negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons. We call on governments to get behind this resolution because we can imagine a world without nuclear weapons and believe in making it happen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-jennings/making-it-happen-trade-un_b_12583844.html

The IPB congress is over

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We will publish the main documents of the IPB World Congress on our webside.

You will find: documents, speeches of the plenaries and summeries of the panels and workshops.

The publishing requires a step by step approach. „What we get, you can read“.

 

IPB World Congress 2016 “Disarm! For a Climate of Peace” – Pressemitteilung Weltkongress vereinbart mehr Aktionen weltweit

Posted on by October 12, 2016

PRESSEMITTEILUNG Der IPB Kongress  ist das größte Friedenstreffen des Jahres 2016. Über  1000 Gäste aus 80 verschiedenen Ländern nahmen daran teil. Dies ist ein eindrucksvolles Zeichen, welches vor allem das Streben nach weltweitem Frieden widerspiegelt. Die Hörsäle der Technischen Universität … Continue reading →

IPB Pressekonferenz / IPB Press Conference (Video)

Posted on by September 27, 2016

Hier geht’s zum Video des IPB Pressegesprächs vom 22. September 2016… / Please find here the latest IPB press talk from 22 September 2016: [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzExJqcUNNQ[/embedyt]   Das Internationale Friedensbüro (IPB), Friedensnobelpreisträger von 1910, veranstaltet vom 30.09. bis 02.10.2016 den … Continue reading →

“Wir stehen vor einer neuen Aufrüstungswelle”

Posted on by September 27, 2016
Wer geht heute für den Frieden auf die Straße? Foto: Philipp Guelland / AFP / Getty Images

Wer geht heute für den Frieden auf die Straße? Foto: Philipp Guelland / AFP / Getty Images

 

Interview mit Reiner Braun im
der Freitag vom 26.09.2016

Protest Der weltgrößte Friedenskongress findet am kommenden Wochenende statt.
Organisator Reiner Braun erläutert, wie sich die momentane Schwäche der Bewegung überwinden lässt

Weiterlesen in https://www.freitag.de/autoren/felix-werdermann/wir-stehen-vor-einer-neuen-aufruestungswelle

 

Accommodation in Berlin

Posted on by September 16, 2016

To make the the IPB Congress and the Youth Gathering a more intense experience, we can offer accommodation for participants at a limited, special rate (35 Euros per night) in one of Berlin’s most popular neighborhoods. Feel free to contact us at youth@ipb2016.berlin or info@ipb2016.berlin and let us know your arrival and departure dates.

The IPB Conference print supplement in “der Freitag”

Posted on by September 8, 2016

IPB has issued a print supplement for the IPB World Congress 2016 in the German newspaper der Freitag.

Content:

  • Articles from IPB presidents Ingeborg Breines and Reiner Braun, President of Economists for Peace and Security James K. Galbraith, one of Germany’s leading Russia experts Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, anti-nuclear weapon activist Arielle Denis, former General Secretary of UNESCO Frederico Mayor Zaragoza, as well as an article by the Co-President of the Club of Rome Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
  • Statements by Frank Bsirske, Mairead Maguire, Michail Gorbatschow, Aude-Emmanuelle Fleurent and Reiner Hoffmann
  • Summaries of interviews with Noam Chomsky and Jean Ziegler
  • An interview with Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of ITUC and Philip Jennings, General Secretary of UNI Global Union

 

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For download der Freitag Extra in pdf: freitag-extra-ipb

Disarm! IPB World Congress 2016 (30 Sept – 3 Oct Berlin)

“The world is over – armed and  peace is under-funded.”

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Bringing together a widepeace-by-bartis variety of experts, advocates and speakers from around the globe;

  • Including talks, presentations, roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, information booths, exhibitions, cultural activities;
  • High point in the recently-launched Global Campaign on Military Spending;
  • Apart from the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (mid-April), preparatory events will be held in major cities around the world over the coming year. Continue reading …
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