Am Vorabend wurden Kongressteilnehmer*innen des IPB Worldcongress 2016 Berlin von der Bundestagsfraktion Die Linke zu einem Empfang in den Reichstag eingeladen.
Opening Speach by Ingeborg Breines, co-President IPB
Opening statement 30. September at the world congress in Berlin: Disarm! For a Climate of Peace. Creating an Action Agenda. Excellencies, peace activists, honorable women and men, friends. Good evening and thank you for being here – and thank you … Continue reading →
Report and Video from the PrepCom in Washington
No War 2016: Real Security Without Terrorism
23.-25. Oktober 2016
see video: http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2016
Half-day Workshop: “Exploring recent regional and global efforts and strategies for peace education” (3 Oct, 2 – 6pm | Room H 3005)
The IIPE, in partnership with the Global Campaign for Peace Education The aim is to explore and illuminate regional and global efforts and strategies for peace education. It will build upon the workshops to enquire more deeply into the process of … Continue reading →
Half-day Workshop: “Disarmament Education: Imperative for Peace” (Monday, Oct. 3: 9am – 1pm | Room: H 3005)
The UNESCO World Congress conception of the basic Aim of Disarmament Education is “… how to think about disarmament rather than what to think about it. Disarmament education should therefore be problem-centered so as to develop the analytical and critical capacity to examine and evaluate practical steps … Continue reading →
Beyond Revenge (World Premiere | documentary film)
Sunday 2nd Oct 2016 4.30 | H 0105 “Beyond Revenge” is a novel treatment on the archaic – and at same time redhot – topic of the vengeance; relating the personal with the social and the historic. Immerge in the … Continue reading →
A32 Reading-Workshop “Call me a Foreigner”
Room: MA 143 Milena Oda, Author Who is the Foreigner? who are we as foreigner in Europe or in another countries? How are we accepted and recognized? Is there any common “ground” being a foreigner or is this very specific. … Continue reading →
Final program published
Now the final program is online!
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Program overview (as of 17.09.2016)
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Sightseeing Tour in Berlin
Sightseeing Tour, Sunday October 2nd at 16:30
Meeting Point: Registration at main building
Return to TU Berlin at about 18:30
Civil society must put disarmament back on the international agenda
“The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded”, said Ban Ki-moon, well to the point. Report from the press conference (26.09.2016) by the Pressenza – International Press Agency … Continue reading →
Newsletter 5 | September 2016
“Wir stehen vor einer neuen Aufrüstungswelle”
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
REPORT ON INDIA PREPCOM 22-09-2016
REPORT ON INDIA PREPCOM Citizen’s Action Plan Prepared to Deepen Democracy, Disarm & Invest in Women’s Rights New Delhi, 26 September 2016 – World spend $ 1.6 billion on arms yet social expenditure is decreasing. At the backdrop of Prepcom … Continue reading →
Press Accreditation for IPB WC 2016
We invite journalists to come to the IPB World Congress: Disarm! For a Climate of Peace – Creating an Action Agenda, taking place in Berlin from September 30th till October 3rd 2016. A formal accreditation is not necessary. Our press … Continue reading →
Special Event: Panel with IPB Presidents and former Presidents
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Public Event Friday, 30th Sept
3D Street Art for Nuclear Abolition
The World Future Council and UNFOLD ZERO have commissioned a 3D Interactive Art piece on nuclear abolition which will be installed in a public place in Berlin from September 30th until October 3rd.
The installation is part of the IPB World Congress and Chain Reaction 2016, a series of civil society actions and events around the world to highlight the immorality and insecurity of nuclear weapons, oppose the institutions and policies perpetuating the nuclear arms race, and support nuclear disarma-ment actions.
The 3D street art painting will provide a view into the catacombs of the nuclear weapons system, and provide a possibility for the public to end this.
Don’t miss the chance to take a look into, and then seal, the nuclear abyss!
Contact:
holger.guessefeld@worldfuturecouncil.org
Phone +49 170 5260593
Further details at www.unfoldzero.org
Saturday, Oct 1st 8.30 pm
World Music & Media Show
by Berlin Metropol Orchestra, Arja Saijonmaa, Birgitte Grimstad & PEN Germany
Opening: Heinrich Bleicher-Nagelsmann (ver.di)
Birgitte Grimstad
became one of the leading folksingers in the 1960’s and 70’s, with an extensive touring- and recording career, and is still active. She was on the arrangement committee of Nordic Women’s International Peace Marches in 1981-82-83, and has performed numerous anti-war songs throughout her career.
Arja Saijonmaa
is a very well known singer in the Nordic countries and beyond. She is an engaged citizen working e.g. for peace and gender issues. She is presently a goodwill ambassador for UN Women and has previously been also been a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR and has cooperated actively with UNESCO.
Berlin Metropol Orchestra
(multicultural music group)
Alfred Mehnert, the German percussionist decided to create a world music family like atmosphere to create a new “Großstadtsound”, a Metropolitan sound. In his musical family you encounter songwriter, solo instrumentalists, jazz musicians and composer bringing along stories of their roots to be translated into music. The evening of our Congress will feature the Cuban singer Mayelis Guyat and the “Congo”/ Angolan-origin singer Ange da Costa.
B24 Women – Food Security – Conflict and Peace
Room: MA 141 WUNRN-Women’s UN Report Network Food is a basic human right, guaranteed by international law. States must reaffirm the obligations they have assumed in International Humanitarian Law, as parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols, … Continue reading →
B23 Turkey’s Internal War and External Aggression (Strategy)
Room: MA 751 IG Metall, HDP/HDK Berlin (Halkların Demokratik Kongresi (HDK) – Peoples’ Democratic Congress / Halklarin Demokratik Partisi (HDP) – Peoples’ Democratic Party) Turkey is waging a brutal war against its own citizens. It is not only targeting Kurds, … Continue reading →
B22 The Refugee Crisis is not Gender Neutral: What can we do?
Room: MA 144 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Norway, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Denmark This workshop on Sunday will be a follow up of the Saturday workshop titled (“In-)visible, (in-)secure, (in-)dependent.-the future through … Continue reading →
B21 Non-violent Conflict Resolution in a Group Setting
Room: MA 744 International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) UN, EU and governments send civilians to conflict zones to alleviate and mitigate disputes. Instead of violence better to listen to the feelings and needs of the opponents in order to restore … Continue reading →
B20 Taxes for Peace not War – Winning the Human Right not to Pay for War
Room: MA 848 Conscience and Peace Tax International (CPTI) The panel consists of war tax resisters and peace tax campaigners, who have a conscientious objection to pay for war. Coming from worldwide national organizations, they belong to CPTI which has … Continue reading →
B19 The Politics of a Peace Department
Room: MA 742 Norwegian Peace Association and WILPF Norway Peace in a process. What must be done to have peace and nonviolence as part of local, regional and international culture of conflict resolution? In this workshop some of the methods … Continue reading →
B18 Skills Building for Conflict Resolution
Room: MA 651 West Africa Center for Peace Foundation (WACPF) West Africa Centre for Peace Foundation (WACPF) is a non-governmental organization that serves the youth in schools and communities through education on human rights, leadership trainings, and peace building in … Continue reading →
B17 Promoting a Culture of Peace
Room: MA 143 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Ghana, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Norway, Norwegian Peace Council WILPF Ghana will describe project about Educating for Peace of students on active listening, dialogue, mediation, … Continue reading →
B16 OurEarth Summit 2020
Room: MA 648 Our Earth OurEarth Summit 2020 is a call for action to link Earth Repair Issues with Effective Solution Providers using Military Resources to accept and manage the role of working for the health of the whole planet. … Continue reading →
A30 Youth and Demilitarization
Room: H 3006 Youth Gathering Since early 2016 a youth gathering around the IPB World Congress is being organized and planned. One critical point in the preparations was the drafting of a declaration. Aim of this declaration is to give … Continue reading →
A29 Working on Gender and Peace: Networking and Empowerment
Room: H 3004 Working Group “Gender and Peace” of the Federation for Social Defense (BSV) and Women’s Network for Peace, Germany Interested in topics such as the various roles of men and women in peace processes, sexualized violence or militarized … Continue reading →
A28 We Do Not Need Nuclear Weapons – The Hidden Truths About the Business of Nuclear Weapons
Room: MA 551 Belgium Humanist Party and International Humanist Party On August 6, 1945 the 1st atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Shocked world entered into the nuclear age. The production of electricity by nuclear power … Continue reading →
A27 Turkey’s Internal War and External Aggression (Analysis)
Room: H 3007 IG Metall, HDP/HDK Berlin (Halkların Demokratik Kongresi (HDK) – Peoples’ Democratic Congress / Halklarin Demokratik Partisi (HDP) – Peoples’ Democratic Party) Turkey is waging a brutal war against its own citizens by not only targeting Kurds, but … Continue reading →
A26 The Universal Basic Income (UBI) – A Big Step Towards A True Social Peace
Room: MA 645 Humanists for the Universal Basic Income 1-An introduction of what a universal basic income (UBI) should be and a brief explanation of the concepts implied in this idea of UBI. In this part, the different speakers will … Continue reading →
A25 The Potential Nexus Between Genetic Engineering and Biological Weapons
Room: H 3008 Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler (VDW) Biological weapons (BW) are classified as weapons of mass destruction. Development, production and storage of BW are prohibited by the Biological Weapons Convention. Conventional methods in microbiology were tedious and error-prone. Genetic engineering … Continue reading →
A24 The Nuclear-Climate Nexus and Sustainable Peace
Room: H 3002 International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) / World Future Council While humanity faces a range of interconnected transnational threats and crises in the 21st Century, climate change and the continued existence of nuclear … Continue reading →
A23 The Military-Security-Industrial Complex” – how the homeland security is merging with the military-industrial complex
Room: MA 648 Transnational Institute (TNI) Revenues from Homeland Security markets – police technology, counter-terrorism, surveillance, border control, crisis management etc. – continue to account for a larger and larger share of the revenues of many defense conglomerates. Their diversification … Continue reading →
A22 The Impacts of Climate Change on Peace and Security in Africa
Room: MA 742 Trees on Earth Development Foundation Moses Adedeji, Trees on Earth Development Foundation Surveyor Efik, Climate Change Network Nigeria … Continue reading →
A21 The Impact of War on the Environment
Room: H 1028 International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) and the Belgian Coalition for a ban on uranium weapons The workshop will deal with a fundamental topic linked to (any) war, or military conflict – the devastation of the … Continue reading →
A20 The Creeping Militarization of Geoengineering
Room: MA 744 Group for Research and Information on Peace and security (GRIP), Brussels “Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques”, or “ENMOD Convention”, is the only international instrument regulating technology and … Continue reading →
A19 The Creep of Militarism Into Education – the Impact on Young People
Room: MA 544 Movement for the Abolition of War (MAW), UK MAW Youth workshop will lay out how the military establishment is creeping into UK schools and universities and how a military culture is being introduced to us from a … Continue reading →
A18 The Arms Trade Treaty – toothless tiger or robust regime for conventional arms control?
Room: H 0112 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Effective since the end of 2014, the international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) seeks to stem the ever growing, uncontrolled and illegal trading of conventional weapons and munitions to achieve better controls and regulations. With stakeholders … Continue reading →
A17 Syria Women Speak on Realities of Conflict, Hopes for Peace
Room: H 1058 WUNRN-Women’s UN Report Network In the fifth year of a pervasive and protracted conflict, the objective of this landmark Syrian Women’s Rights Worksho is to give comprehensive updates on the situation in Syria through a gendered lens,. … Continue reading →
A16 No future without overcoming the social division in our world and without perspectives for the youth!
The North-South-Report of Willy Brandt is more current than ever before! Room: MA 848 Initiative Black&White In the 80ies the Nobel laureate and former German chancellor, Willy Brandt, led an independent north-south-committee to find solutions for the social gap between … Continue reading →
A15 Military Research and Responsibility of Scientists
Room: H 2013 International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) / NaturwissenschaftlerInnen-Initiative (NatWiss) Increasingly, military research is being conducted at public universities and science institutions. Not only the natural sciences but also social sciences utilize militarily under … Continue reading →
A14 Military Recourses and the Environment
Room H 2032 The Green Association for the Protection of Life How can we in the best way use the military resources in order to save the environment? The UN study prepared for the Rio-conference form a platform for a … Continue reading →
A13 Military Expenses versus Funding Sustainable Development Goals – with an emphasis on developing countries
Room MA 141 Coordination of African Mayors for peace and development (CAMPAD) Behind the scene and in various countries army units billions of dollars are been spent on military tools. World military expenditure totaled almost nearly $2 trillion in 2015, … Continue reading →
A12 Military Expenditure: The Beginning of War
Room: MA 144 Centre Dela s d’Estudis per la Pau Military expenditure is the first step of the military economic cycle, which has also other components besides Milex, like military industry, arms trade and exports, Military research and development and … Continue reading →
A11 Military and Ethics: What is the role of the Media?
Room H 2036 Pressenza We witness a terrifying rise of globalized violence resulting in thousands of civilian victims and millions of refugees. Western governments were forced to react but with no solution except rise of militarization, cooperation with dictators, etc. … Continue reading →
A10 (In-)visible, (in-)secure, (in-)dependent – The future through the prism of women resistance
Room: H 3012 Transform Europe / Change4all and The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) The refugee policy crisis is not gender neutral. This WS will tackle women refugees in a broader context: women as political subjects who … Continue reading →
A09 Foreign Military Bases a threat to peace and security
Room: MA 651 Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) An exploration of the importance of building (inter-)national campaigns aimed at highlighting the threat of foreign military bases to peace and security everywhere, including the human rights of people in the … Continue reading →
A08 Examples of NATO-opposition in Northern Europe
Room: MA 751 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Norway, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Finland and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Scotland The workshop focuses on the opposition to NATO through … Continue reading →