Speaking & Events

2019:

• Dec 3-4. Seoul. Speaker at the Seoul Peace Conference hosted by Seoul Mayor. Alyn Ware Seoul presentation.
• Dec 2-3. Tokyo. Meetings with PNND Japan and Religions for Peace.
• Nov 19: Basel. Basel Peace Office AGM. My annual report as BPO Director.
• Oct 20-Nov 1: New York. UN General Assembly and Count the Nuclear Weapons Money.
• Oct 13-17. Belgrade. Inter Parliamentary Union Assembly: Advancing parliamentary action on the climate and nuclear disarmament.
• Oct 7-8: Prague. Lay down your arms international conference
• Sep 21-27: New York. Global Week for Peace, Climate, SDGs and Nuclear Abolition. Including the International Day for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
• Sep 12-17 Cairo. World Future Council Annual meeting.
• Sep 11: Edinburgh. ATOM Project and PNND event with Karipbek Kuyukov in Scottish Parliament.
• Sep 9: London. ATOM Project and PNND event in the House of Commons
• Sep 5: Vienna. Move the Nuclear Weapons Money and Pension fund divestment roundtable
• Sep 2: Geneva. Cooperation amongst NWFZs to advance a nuclear weapon free world, Diplomatic roundtable to commemorate the International Day Against Nuclear Tests
• July 21-28: Mumbai and Delhi. Right Livelihood Foundation speaking events
• July 17-21: Dhaka. PNND and nuclear divestment meetings
• July 4-8: Luxembourg. Advocacy at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
• June 20: Washington DC: Roundtable event on Move the Nuclear Weapons Money. USA Launch of Global Peace Index
• May 8: New York. Panel: Cooperation towards Nuclear Weapon Free Zones.
• May 7: New York. Move the Nuclear Weapons Money event at the UN;
• May 5: New York. Annual meeting of Abolition 2000, the global network to eliminate nuclear weapons. Co-chair of new working group Peace, disarmament and SDGs: Global week of action Sep 21 – 26;
• May 1: New York. PNND event at Non-Proliferation Treaty Prep Com. Parliamentary actions for nuclear disarmament.
• April 12-13:  Basel. Nuclear weapons and fossil fuel divestment conference.
• Mar  18-22: New Zealand. Peace Bike Ride
• Feb 15:  Canberra. PNND event in parliament on nuclear risk-reduction and disarmament
• Feb 8-10: Seoul, South Korea. PyeongChang Global Peace Forum. Adopts Resolution on Peace in Korea and 5-Point Action Plan for Global Peace.
• Jan 30:  Global. Release of Mayors & Parliamentarians call on on Russia and the U.S. to preserve the INF Treaty
• Jan 16:  Basel, Switzerland. European Regional Meeting of Parliamentarians and City Leaders on
  Nuclear Disarmament and Divestment
• Jan 15:  Basel. Public event. Investing in peace and sustainability – divesting from fossil fuels and war.
• Jan 14:  Basel. Basel Peace Forum: Action to highlight Euoropean weapons exports.

2018:

• Jan 12:  Trento, Italy.  A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World. Is it desirable. Is it feasible. Presentation at the ISODARCO Winter Course
• Jan 14-15:  Basel, Switzerland. Where are the Nukes? Are you banking on the bomb? Pavilion at the Basel Peace Forum.
  
• Feb 22-23: Vienna, Austria. Information booth for parliamentarians at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Winter Session.
  
• Mar 8. Prague, Czech Republic. Presentation for Nuclear disarmament Update, Prague Institute of International Relations.
• Mar 15-18. Prague, Czech Republic. Presentations to the regional Model United Nations (plenary, UN Security Council and UN General Assembly sessions).
• Mar 24-27: Geneva, Switzerland.138th IPU Assembly. Side-event on new PNND/IPU/SCRAP project on comprehensive disarmament. Intervention to IPU Assembly on nuclear disarmament and SDGs.
• March 28: New York, USA. Press conference at the UN to launch Move the Nuclear Weapons Money platform and civil society statement supporting diplomacy in North East Asia.
• April 5. Tauranga, NZ. Presentation to the United Nations Association AGM, Implementing the United Nations goals of peace and disarmament.
  
• April 12. Wellington, NZ. Public presentation Nuclear Threats, Diplomacy and the United Nations.
• April 19. Geneva, Switzerland. Co-chair of diplomatic round-table on Reviving Nuclear Threat Reduction and Disarmament.
• Apr 23. Geneva, Switzerland. Organiser and Chair of Parliamentary Action for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, side event at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Prep Com.
• April 28. Geneva, Switzerland. Co-chair of the Abolition 2000 AGM.
• May 1. Geneva, Switzerland. Organiser and speaker at the event Nuclear weapons and the law on human rights and future generations
• May 11: New York, USA. Co-Chair of the Abolition 2000 International Strategy Meeting.
• May 24: Geneva, Switzerland. Press conference at the UN to release the international appeal of women legislators Common security for a sustainable and nuclear-weapon-free world.
• June 3: Berlin, Germany. Interview with Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) for the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign.
• June 7-9. The Hague, Netherlands. Events in the Peace Palace and Humanity House to commemorate the 175th birthday of Bertha von Suttner, first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
• June 11-12. Berlin, Germany. Consultation event with German NGOs on the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money Campaign including on nuclear weapons divestment in Germany.
• Jun 25-27. London, UK. Parliamentary event to release the CND report on military diversification and economic conversion.
• July 1-4. Basel, Switzerland. Planning meetings for a regional conference in 2019 on a European Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone and on nuclear weapons divestment in Europe.
• July 7-11. Berlin, Germany. Information booth for parliamentarians at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session
• July 12-14. Buchel, Germany. International Action Camp outside military base where US nuclear weapons are deployed.

2017:

• Jan 20: Vienna consultation on nuclear disarmament negotiations and parliamentary action. NH Danube Hotel, 9:30-11:30
• Jan 24: Geneva consultation on nuclear disarmament negotiations and parliamentary action. Right Livelihood Foundation Office, Maison de la Paix. 13:00-15:00
• Jan 26:  Washington DC consultation on nuclear disarmament negotiations and parliamentary action. Green Cross International Conference Room, L St and 15th. 9:30-12:00.
• Feb 15:  New York consultation on nuclear disarmament negotiations and parliamentary action. Bahai Conference Room, 866 UN Plaza. 10:00-12:00.
• Feb 23-24: PNND information booth at Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe winter meeting, Vienna.
• March 7. London. PNND briefing and discussion on Nuclear risk-reduction measures,  disarmament negotiations and the role of parliamentarians. Millbank House, House of Lords, London, UK. Hosted by PNND Co-President Baroness Sue Miller.
• March 22: Berlin. PNND/UNFOLD ZERO consultation event on nuclear disarmament negotiations.
• March 27-31: New York. First session of UN negotiations for a nuclear prohibition treaty.
• April 3: Dhaka, Bangladesh. PNND side event Nuclear-risk-reduction and achieving a nuclear-weapon-free world at the 136^th Assembly of the Inter Parliamentary Union.
• April 5-7: Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2017 PNND Assembly. Adoption of the Parliamentary Action Plan for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World.
• April 20-22: Berlin. Workshops for the Evangelische Schule Berlin Centrum.
• April 25: Fribourg, Switzerland. No weapons for Mass Atrocities. Public event at Fribourg University.
• May 2-12: Vienna, Austria. Conference of States Parties to the NPT (Preparatory Meeting for the 2010 NPT Review Conference).
• Oct 14-18: St Petersburg. Panel at IPU Assembly and release of the Parliamentary Action Plan for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
• Nov 10-11: The Vatican. Meeting Pope Francis and participating in the Vatican Conference on Nuclear Disarmament.
• Nov 12: Bonn. Presentation to the Parliamentary Meeting of the COP 23 Climate Change Conference.
• Nov 15: Madrid. Keynote speaker for two parliamentary events.