Abolition 2000 annual meeting Nuclear abolition campaigns, strategies and movement building

Event Date: 23rd July 2022
Location: Internet 07:00 BST

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UNFOLD ZERO is proud to be affiliated with Abolition 2000, the global civil society network for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

If you are worried about the risk of nuclear war; if you are upset that over $100 billion is spent annually on nuclear weapons while peace, public health, climate protection and poverty eradication are woefully under-funded; if you believe that the peace and nuclear disarmament movement is strengthened by mutual support and cooperation; then we encourage you to join with others from around the world on July 23 to share ideas, information, actions and strategies for nuclear abolition.
 

Abolition 2000 annual meeting sessions:
Timed so that anyone, anywhere can participate

Session 1a: Campaigns and strategy. 8am Central Europe Time
Session 1b: Campaigns and strategy (repeat of the first session): 12 noon Eastern Time USA
Session 2: Proposals, network and movement building. 3pm Eastern Time USA

The Annual Meeting is being held as an online video conference with Session 1 held twice in order to enable people from all around the world to participate, regardless of their time-zone.
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New environment for nuclear disarmament, the invasion of Ukraine and the upcoming NPT Review Conference

The Abolition 2000 Annual Meeting takes place just over a week prior to the 2022 Review Conference of States Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the first major, multilateral, nuclear-policy-related event involving nuclear armed, allied and non-nuclear states since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Abolition 2000 members and working groups are feeding into the NPT Review Conference through working papers (e.g. NWC Reset: Frameworks for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World and No-First Use of Nuclear Weapons: An Exploration of Unilateral, Bilateral and Plurilateral Approaches and their Security, Risk-reduction and Disarmament Implications), side events, appeals (e.g. Fulfil the NPT: From nuclear threats to human security) and direct advocacy.
 

Focus of the 2022 Abolition 2000 Annual Meeting

The world has changed significantly since Abolition 2000’s last annual meeting in 2021. In order to make sense of these changes and their implications for the work of those campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons, the 2022 annual meeting will include a general discussion about nuclear disarmament strategies.

• What are the effects of the Ukraine war on our work?
• How has it changed perceptions about nuclear weapons and about prospects for disarmament?
• Are there previous assumptions that have guided our work that might require reflection, and perhaps revision?
• What have you been doing differently due to the changed global context, or what do you think we should consider doing differently?

If you have thoughts or opinions on any of these questions, please bring them to the Abolition 2000 Annual meeting. See also the collection of Statements on the Russian invasion of Ukraine by Abolition 2000 member organizations. 
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A session of the 2018 Abolition 2000 Annual Meeting co-chaired by Tony Robinson and Jackie Cabasso.