Global Campaign for Peace Education

CAN and PAX publish “Risky Returns: Nuclear weapon producers and their financiers”

December 30, 2022 December 27, 2022 / News & Highlights

The 2022 report “Risky Returns: Nuclear weapon producer and their financiers” details how 306 financial institutions made over $746 billion available to 24 companies heavily involved in the production of nuclear weapons, between January 2020 and July 2022.

Why condemn threats to use nuclear weapons?

October 12, 2022 October 12, 2022 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons have heightened tensions, reduced the threshold for use of nuclear weapons, and greatly increased the risk of nuclear conflict and global catastrophe. This briefing paper prepared by ICAN provides an overview of why delegitimization of these threats is urgent, necessary and effective.

Nuclear Weapons in the New Cold War (with Daniel Ellsberg)

Brooklyn For Peace is hosting Daniel Ellsberg for a virtual zoom event on October 13. Ellsberg will address the danger of nuclear weapons and opportunities for nuclear disarmament in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the New Cold War between the US, Russia, and China.

Increased nuclear threat may renew interest in disarmament, advocates say

September 24, 2022 September 24, 2022 / News & Highlights, Opinion

In this post from the Global Sisters Report, an entry in the GCPE series on “The New Nuclear Era,” we see the potential of cooperation between secular and faith-based civil society activism for the renewed civil society movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

The United Nations commemorates September 26 as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. This Day provides an occasion for the world community to reaffirm its commitment to global nuclear disarmament as a priority. It provides an opportunity to educate the public – and their leaders – about the real benefits of eliminating such weapons, and the social and economic costs of perpetuating them.

Nuclear weapons and Gender: a Youth for TPNW panel

Join Youth for TPNW on August 17 for a panel discussion on the intersections between gender and nuclear weapons.

Nagasaki Peace Declaration

August 9, 2022 August 9, 2022 / News & Highlights

Taue Tomihisa, Mayor of Nagasaki issued this Peace Declaration on August 9, 2022, resolving to make “Nagasaki be the last place to suffer an atomic bombing,”

Luck is not a strategy…

August 9, 2022 August 9, 2022 / Opinion

Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament argues that we cannot rely on luck to protect us from the risk of nuclear war. As we mark the 77th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must remember what nuclear use means, and try and understand what nuclear war would look like today.

On the anniversary of Nagasaki, it’s time to rethink nuclear strategy and ending the war in Ukraine

August 8, 2022 August 8, 2022 / Opinion

On the anniversary of the US dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) it is imperative that we examine the failures of nuclear deterrence as a security policy. Oscar Arias and Jonathan Granoff suggest nuclear weapons play a minimal deterrence role in NATO and put forth a bold proposal of making preparations for the withdrawal of all U.S. nuclear warheads from Europe and Turkey as a preliminary step to opening negotiations with Russia.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki museums step up efforts to convey A-bomb reality

August 5, 2022 August 5, 2022 / News & Highlights

As Hiroshima prepares to mark the 77th anniversary of the A-bomb dropped on it by the United States on August 6, 1945, some of its residents are brushing up on anti-nuclear messaging with the help of a program run by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Nuclear threats, common security and disarmament (New Zealand)

June 17, 2022 June 17, 2022 / Activity Reports

In 1986 the New Zealand government adopted Peace Studies guidelines in order to introduce peace education into the school curriculum. The following year, the parliament adopted legislation prohibiting nuclear weapons – cementing into policy a shift toward a common security based foreign policy. In this article, Alyn Ware commemorates the 35th anniversary of the nuclear-free legislation, highlights the connection between peace education and the shift in security policy, and recommends further action for the government and New Zealanders to help eliminate nuclear weapons globally.

Nuclear Stockpiling is Banned by the Nuclear Prohibition Treaty

June 15, 2022 June 15, 2022 / News & Highlights

Peace educators dealing with any disarmament issues should be familiar with the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and its highly regarded work on a broad range of issues related to weapons and armaments. Those who address the problematic of nuclear weapons and the movement for their elimination will find SIPRI’s research on stockpiling posted here useful learning material.

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