From the Summit of the Future to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
Event Date: 1st October 2024
Location: Internet 5:30-7:00pm Central Europe Time
Timed for Asia and the Pacific (and early risers in Europe)
Register for Session 1
Session 2: 5:30-7:00pm Central Europe Time / 11:30am-1:00pm Eastern Time
Timed for the Americas, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Register for Session 2.
On September 23, world leaders meeting at the UN for the Summit of the Future adopted a Pact for the Future which included commitments to strengthen multilateral action and cooperation on key issues impacting on the future. (See See UN adopts ground-breaking Pact for the Future to transform global governance, UN press release).
The Pact included commitments on preventing nuclear war and achieving global nuclear disarmament. However, these commitments are vague and do not include comprehensive measures for implementation, nor a time-frame for achieving the global elimination of nuclear weapons.
Peace and disarmament organizations, including members of UNFOLD ZERO, had submitted stronger nuclear risk-reduction and disarmament proposals, some of which were included in the Peoples Pact for the Future, a joint civil society advocacy document for the Summit.
In this event on October 1, civil society leaders involved in the UN Summit of the Future and in the global nuclear abolition movement will discuss the nuclear risk-reduction and disarmament commitments agreed at the Summit, as well as the civil society proposals to the Summit, and campaigns for their implementation.
“A nuclear war would visit devastation upon all humankind and we must make every effort to avert the danger of such a war, bearing in mind that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”.
“We decide to:
Recommit to the goal of the total elimination of nuclear weapons….
Commit to strengthening the disarmament and non-proliferation architecture and work to prevent any erosion of existing international norms and take all possible steps to prevent nuclear war…”
Speakers and moderators:
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Jackie Cabasso (Pacific Coast/USA)
Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation. Member, Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee. North America Coordinator for Mayors for Peace. -
Ela Gandhi (South Africa)
Founder, Gandhi Development Trust. Co-President, Religions for Peace. Grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhi. -
Neshan Gunasekera (Sri Lanka/Sweden)
Co-chair, World Future Council Working Group on the UN Summit of the Future and World Future Council Commission on Peace and Disarmament. Co-founder, Legal Alternatives to War (LAW not War). -
Tadashi Inuzuka (Japan)
Executive Director, 3+3 Coalition for a North-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone. Council member, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. Former Senator for Nagasaki. -
Vanessa Lanteigne (Canada)
Rotary Peace Fellow. Former National Coordinator for the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace -
Ayleen Roy (Austria)
International Relations student at King’s College London. PNND Program Officer. Member, Transnational Working Group on Values, faith-based perspectives and global governance. -
Kunihiko Shimada (Japan)
Principal Director, Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace -
Rebecca Shoot (USA)
Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions. Co-drafter of Chapter 2: Peace and Security of the Peoples Pact for the Future. -
Ivan Siluianov (Russia/USA)
Master’s Student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Member, European Leadership Network. Secretary to Abolition 2000. -
John Vlasto (UK)
Chair, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy. Co-convenor, Earth Governance ImPACT Coalition. Co-founder, Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance -
Alyn Ware (New Zealand/Czech Republic)
Global Coordinator, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. Member, Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee. Co-drafter of Chapter 2: Peace and Security of the Peoples Pact for the Future. Co-founder, UNFOLD ZERO