War and Climate Emergency, A Day School for Climate and Peace Campaigners.
Event Date: 29th October 2022
Location: West Oxford Community Centre, Oxford, 10.30-5
Saturday 29th October Oxford Day school for Peace and Climate campaigners more info and register here : https://cnduk.org/events/war-and-climate-emergency-oxford-day-school-for-climate-and-peace-campaigners/
War and Climate Emergency, A Day School for Climate and Peace Campaigners. Saturday 29 October 2022, West Oxford Community Centre, Oxford, 10.30-5
Details and registration (free or donation) at https://warandclimatechange.eventbrite.com
We are privileged to be close to this event coming up in Oxford on October 29th: a few places still available but filling up fast. We hope it will be a meeting of minds between the peace movement and the climate movement – a place for those of us who see them as inextricably linked to get together and plan!
We are delighted that Rebecca Johnson will be joining the amazingly star-studded panel of experts. Dr Rebecca Eleanor Johnson, Greenham, Aldermaston and Faslane 365 ecofeminist campaigner, co-founding first president of ICAN’s international steering group, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize recipient for UN Treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons (TPNW), author of Nuclear Weapons are Banned: What does this mean for Britain (Acronym Institute and CND 2022).
War and Climate Emergency
Day School Sat 29th Oct 10.30 – 5pm
West Oxford Community Centre
Morning speakers panel, afternoon workshop sessions and plenary.
Community centre cafe available for lunch.
Contributors include:
· Nafeez Ahmed, (systems theorist, RethinkX, Byline Times)
· Stuart Parkinson (Scientists for Global Responsibility)
· Andrew Simms (Rapid Transition Alliance and New Weather Institute)
· Tim Street (nuclear weapons researcher and British Pugwash)
· Dr Rebecca Johnson (eco-feminist campaigner, ICAN, Greenham etc)
Supported by: MAW (Movement for the Abolition of War), Oxford CND, Oxford FOE, Oxford XR, Swindon XR, Oxfordshire Peace Campaign, Faringdon Peace Group.
All welcome!
For details and to register (free or donation)
www.warandclimatechange.eventbrite.com
Secretary, Abingdon Peace Group
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10.30am to 12.45pm the morning’s speakers
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Nafeez Ahmed; ‘ Russia-Ukraine crisis and system change’….Nafeez will be in part talking about how the fear of an end of fossil fuel era was one of the factors driving Putin to war and will also consider how much it may catalyse a radical transfer to renewables etc in the global energy system. Look up Nafeez on google for his Byline Times articles etc
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Andrew Simms : The war as trigger to rapid transition?
Conflict as a potential trigger for rapid transition, .
Bio: Andrew Simms is an author, political economist and campaigner. He is co-director of the New Weather Institute, coordinator of the Rapid Transition Alliance, assistant director of Scientists for Global Responsibility, and a research associate at the University of Sussex. Tw. @andrewsimms_uk
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c Stuart Parkinson ‘How war in Ukraine is derailing climate action’
- The military carbon bootprint – how big is it? and how is it hidden?- The myth of the green military- Military spending v climate spending- From national security to human security- Arms conversion for a just and sustainable future
Bio:
Dr Stuart Parkinson has been executive director of Scientists for Global Responsibility for 20 years. A military engineer-turned-climate scientist, he has authored several reports on climate and security issues. He has also worked in academia and has been an expert reviewer with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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d. Tim Street ; ; ‘Avoiding nuclear war in a volatile world’
The first part of the talk will focus on current nuclear threats, with a focus on the Ukraine conflict. For example, how likely is the use of nuclear weapons by Russia and the US? I will also discuss the UK’s role in the conflict, nuclear modernisation, and how militarisation relates to environmental degradation and competition for resources. The second part of my talk will consider: the alternatives to war involving the US / NATO and Russia / China; what domestic political change is required to keep the peace and prioritise disarmament; and the importance of activism in achieving this.
Bio ; Dr Tim Street, nuclear weapons researcher. Tim is the Secretary of British Pugwash and a board member of Nuclear Information Service. He is the author of ‘The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament’ (Routledge, 2021).
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From 2pm to 4 pm
Breakout sessions looking at ways in which we can combine campaigns and respond to the increasingly critical situation.
4pm to 5pm
Plenary session
There is an excellent cafe in the community centre or nearby pubs on Osney Island for the lunch break.