UNFOLD ZERO Newsletter

Posted: 2nd February 2023

UNFOLD ZERO and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) invite you to join the PyeongChang Odae-San Peace (POP) online dialogues taking place from February 7-10, 2023.

The POP Dialogues continue the ideas and initiatives for peace, diplomacy and sustainable development launched at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, and followed up annually through the PyeongChang Peace Forums.

The POP dialogues will comprise 7 panels over the 3 days. UNFOLD ZERO/PNND representatives are speaking in three of these:

• Feb 7: Denuclearisation of North-East Asia: The 3+3 Model for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone;
• Feb 8: Common Security, Nuclear War Prevention and Global Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
• Feb 8: Asia Consultation for the UN Summit of the Future and Global Futures Forum.

Register for the PyeongChang Odae-San Peace (POP) Dialogues

Denuclearisation of North-East Asia: 

The 3+3 Model for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

February 7. 4pm-6pm Seoul Time / 8am – 10am Central Europe Time

This session will explore the prospects of building common security and regional nuclear disarmament through a North-East Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone based on the 3+3 Model.

Moderators and Speakers:

• Alyn Ware (Czech Republic) PNND Global Coordinator, Basel Peace Office Director;
• Yosuke Watanabe (Japan) Peace Depot;
• Maria Kim (Republic of Korea). PNND Northeast Asia Assistant Coordinator;
• Tadashi Inuzuka (Japan) Executive Director, 3+3 Coalition for a NE Asia NWFZ. PNND Council Member. Former Nagasaki Senator;
• Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan (Mongolia) Chair, Blue Banner. Former UN Ambassador for Mongolia.
   

Common Security:
Nuclear War Prevention and Global Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.

February 8: 4pm-6pm Seoul Time / 8am – 10am Central Europe Time

This session will explore policy initiatives to reduce the risks of nuclear war, replace reliance on nuclear deterrence with common security, and advance the global abolition of nuclear weapons. For background see Nuclear abolition: Achieving the ‘impossible’ through a common security framework.

Moderators and Speakers:

• Michaela Sorenson (Mozambique/Denmark) Core Member of Youth Fusion. PNND Gender, Peace and Security Program Officer
• Alyn Ware (Czech Republic) PNND Global Coordinator, Basel Peace Office Director;
• Vanda Proskova (Czech Republic) Vice-Chair, PragueVision Institute for Sustainable Security. Co-convenor, Youth Fusion.
• Manpreet Sethi (India) Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. Member, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Non-proliferation and Disarmament
• Roberto Zamora (Costa Rica) Board member of International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms

 

Asia Consultation: UN Summit of the Future / Global Futures Forum

February 8: 8pm-10pm Seoul Time / 12noon-2pm Central Europe Time

The United Nations General Assembly has decided to hold a Summit of the Future in September 2024, preceded by a preparatory ministerial meeting in September 2023.

The Summit is tasked to adopt a ‘Pact for the Future. It is also likely to establish a UN Special Envoy for Future Generations, and it could address other institutional reforms/initiatives. In addition, the UN Secretary-General is preparing a New Agenda for Peace which will be released prior to the Summit.

The Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN) is facilitating civil society input into the UN Summit and its preparatory process.This includes:

• A Global Futures Forum (GFF) on March 20-21
• Preparing a People’s Pact for the Future to be released in April 2023
• Organising a number of thematic and regional consultations for the GFF and Summit of the Future.

This panel serves as the Asia regional consultation for the Global Futures Forum and Peoples Pact for the Future. Speakers include: Beckie Malay from the Philippines, Alyn Ware from New Zealand, Nurgul from Kyrgyzstan, Gopal from Nepal and Hirotaka Koike from Japan.

There is also a Pacific Region consultation on March 1.
 Yours sincerely
UNFOLD ZERO