SCRAP Weapons: Today’s era must not be of war
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- Date
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4:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS University of London
- Room
- Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
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About this event
SCRAP Weapons invites you to a hybrid conference to build a global constituency to support the convening of the next Special Session on Disarmament and take its agenda to the United Nations General Assembly. This aims to uphold the United Nations’ sixteenth Sustainable Development Goal of ‘peace, justice and strong institutions.’ SCRAP Weapons’ Conference will explore how to make the G20’s call a reality, assisting peace in Ukraine and beyond. Join us to shape a road-map to a new era of peace and disarmament.
The G20 response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and fears of nuclear annihilation was that ‘today’s era must not be of war.’ As such, we require a new political and technical strategy for arms control and disarmament.
Just as at the bleakest moment of the Second World War, Franklin Roosevelt set an objective of disarmament, so now we can do no less. With Russian president Vladimir Putin and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov having made a number of statements widely seen as threatening the use of nuclear weapons, an accelerating arms race taking place in the East, and global military spending reaching an estimated $2,000,000,000,000, never has there been a more pressing time for general and complete disarmament. Thus, SCRAP Weapons calls upon these states to support the activation of a Special Session on Disarmament at the United Nations General Assembly.
Speakers
Representative of Brazil
Robert Harrap, General Director, Soka Gakkai International-UK
Henrietta Wilson, Researcher and Educator, Kings College London, SOAS University of London & University of Bristol
Martin Butcher, Policy Advisor on Arms, Conflict and International Humanitarian Law, OXFAM
Lucy Tiller, Founding Member, Youth4TPWN & Advisory Committee Member, SCRAP Weapons
Monalisa Hazarika, Leaders 4 Tomorrow, UNODA
Indrajeet Ramana Nand, Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons
Gurpreet Kaur, Project Assistant and Expert in Feminist Approaches to Disarmament, SCRAP Weapons
James Luk, Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons
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