Frameworks for a nuclear-weapon-free world

Event Date: 20th April 2022
Location: Internet

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Online event. Wednesday April 20.
Event flyer

Session 1: 7am – 8:30am Central Europe Time
Timed for Asia/Pacific (and early risers in Europe/Africa). Register

Session 2: 11am – 12:30pm Eastern Time USA / 5pm – 6:30pm Central Europe Time
Timed for Americas/Europe/Africa/Middle East. Register

Organised by the Abolition 2000 Working Group on the UN Disarmament Agenda and a Nuclear Weapons Convention

We cordially invite you to this online event to explore the legal, technical and institutional measures and frameworks to facilitate the global prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. This will include possibilities of a nuclear weapons convention (NWC), a framework agreement and/or protocols to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Background working paper

The event will focus on the ideas and proposals in Abolition 2000 NWC Reset: Frameworks for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, a civil society working paper submitted to the 10th Review Conference of States Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, schedlued to take place August 1-26, 2022.

Program

Session 1: Asia/Pacific
April 20, 7am – 8:30am Central Europe Time

Chair: Aigerim Seitenova (Kazakhstan). Program Assistant, Youth Fusion – Abolition 2000 Youth Network. Former Research Scholar, University of Essex Human Rights Centre Clinic.

Speakers:

Alyn Ware (New Zealand/Czech Republic). International Representative, Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace. Co-Chair, Abolition 2000 Working Group on the UN Disarmament Agenda and a Nuclear Weapons Convention. Principal Drafter, 1997 Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) and 2007 Revised Model NWC.
Dr Manpreet Sethi (India). Member of the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan Group for a Nuclear Weapon Free and Non-violent World Order. Member, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network. Head of the Nuclear Security Project at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi.
Dr Tong Zhao (China), Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Board Member, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. Member, International Panel on Fissile Materials;
Virginia Bertuzzi (Italy). Young Women in Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Mentorship Programme, EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium. 1st prize winner in the UNODA Youth 4 Disarmament video competition.

Session 2: Americas/Europe/Africa/Middle East
11am – 12:30pm Eastern Time USA / 5pm – 6:30pm Central Europe Time

Chair: Jackie Cabasso (USA). Director, Western States Legal Foundation. Member, Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee.

Speakers:

Dr Juergen Scheffran (Germany). Professor and chair of Research Group Climate Change and Security at Hamburg University. Co-Chair, International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. Principal Drafter, 1997 Model NWC.
H.E. Alfredo Labbé (Chile). Professor, National Academy for Political and Strategic Studies, Santiago. Member, UN Group of Governmental Experts on Nuclear Disarmament Verification Issues. Former Director General for Foreign Policy in the Chile Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Former Ambassador (or Deputy Ambassador) of Chile to the UN in Vienna, Geneva and New York.
Divina Maloum (Cameroon). Founder, Children for Peace. Member, Youth Fusion – Abolition 2000 Youth Network. Co-winner (with Greta Thnberg), 2019 International Children’s Peace Prize.
Randy Rydell (USA). Board member, Arms Control Association. Executive Adviser, Mayors for Peace. Former Senior Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. Former Adviser and Legislative Assistant, US Senator John Glenn.