A01 Approaches to Disarmament Education
Room: H 0112 Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) Members of the Global Campaign for Peace Education will share practical and theoretical considerations and approaches to disarmament education from the local to the global. Panelists from Argentina, Colombia and the … Continue reading →
A01 Panel Outcome Approaches to Disarmament Education
Contribution by Cora Weiss, Former President of the International Peace Bureau, USA Disarmament and Peace Education IIPE Berlin October 1, 2016 Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats. Social change … Continue reading →
A02 Crisis and New Security Alternatives in Europe
Room: H 0105 International Peace Bureau How to overcome the confrontation in Europe? What steps are needed for a second period of cooperation and common understanding? Do we need a Helsinki2 and what role can the peace movement play in … Continue reading →
A02 Panel Report (Bericht) Crisis and New Security Alternatives in Europe
Abrüsten! Für ein Klima des Friedens. Bericht von Thomas Rödel Der Bericht ist auch in “pax an” Zeitung der DFG-VK Bayern veröffentlicht. Abrüsten! Für ein Klima des Friedens. Unter diesem Motto hat das Internationale Friedensbüro (International Peace Bureau, IPB) zu … Continue reading →
A03 How to Overcome Terrorism
Room: H 0107 International Peace Bureau Discussion round with open microphone Discussion round with open microphone Introduction words by Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies USA Moderation: Colin Archer, IPB & Ingeborg Breines, IPB … Continue reading →
A04 Finding European strategies to stop the arms trade – focus on small weapons and munitions
Room: H 0111 Aktion Aufschrei – Stopp den Waffenhandel „For crying out loud – Stop the Arms Trade” is the name and the slogan of the campaign to stop German weapons exports. Like this group there are lots of initiatives … Continue reading →
A05 The Future We Don’t Want – Extractivism, Climate Injustice and the Military
Room: H 1012 Friends of the Earth International, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Transnational Institute Friends of the Earth International, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Transnational Institute This is the future we don’t want: increased militarisation of state, attack on human rights for the sake of “security”, techno-fixes … Continue reading →
A06 The Middle East – A Key Conflict on our Planet
What is going on in the Middle East? Interests, profits and the future of possible peace in the Middle East Room: H 1028 International Peace Bureau & Pax Christi International The Middle East region remains insecure and continues to be … Continue reading →
Special Session: Iraq today – what we know and what we don’t know
Room: 0111 Between terror and demonstrations For almost a year popular protests have been ongoing in Baghdad and most Iraqi cities, without much attention from the outside world – except for solidarity actions among diaspora Iraqis in the Western world. … Continue reading →