International Peace Bureau Triennial Gathering 2013 September 13-15 STOCKHOLM, Sweden

In cooperation with ABF-Huset Stockholm

International Peace Conference: “The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded” (Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General)

Annual Sean MacBride Peace Prize ceremony

‘Making Peace’ – Photo-exhibition (in Nobel Museum)

IPB Assembly and Council meeting International Peace Conference Saturday Sept 14 – Sunday Sept 15

Venue: ABF Huset - www.abfstockholm.se

Every three years IPB holds a special meeting to bring together its members and supporters and to discuss the challenges facing peace movements in an unstable and over-militarised world. This year the conference will explore the inter–relationships between military intervention and the economy of war and will attempt to answer some challenging questions:

• What lessons have we learned from external military intervention in recent conflicts?

• What are the best alternatives to such interventions?

• What is the world spending on the military, and what is the opportunity cost?

• How can we challenge the trend towards robot-warfare?

• How best to support whistleblowers for peace?

• What lessons can we learn from the survivors of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombings?

2 Friday September 13

The (triennial) IPB Assembly and (annual) Council meetings aim to analyse the programmes and achievements of the organisation over the past three years, and draw up plans and agree directions for future campaigning and other peace work. The results of the elections will be announced at the Assembly. The meetings are open to all members of IPB member organisations, as well as individual members. Observers are also welcome.

9:00 - 11:00 IPB Assembly meeting Venue: ABF Huset, Palmesalen

11:00 - 11:30 coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 IPB Assembly meeting - continuing

Venue: ABF Huset, Palmesalen

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:30 IPB council meeting

Venue: ABF Huset, Palmesalen 3 Nobel evening Friday, September 13

Time: 18:00 - 21:00 Venue: the Nobel Museum

The event at the Nobel Museum is co-hosted together with the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, the world’s oldest peace organisation that celebrates 130 years since its foundation in 1883.

Moderator: Maj Britt Theorin, Former IPB President, former Disarmament Ambassador of Sweden, member of the Swedish Parliament and European Parliament

Jody Williams, Chair of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Nobel Peace Laureate 1997 Death by machine: stopping the rise of killer robots and the further dehumanisation of war

An American political activist known around the world for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defence of human rights – especially those of women – and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today’s world. Her current campaign is against ‘killer robot’ weapons.

Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize 1976 Our conscience offers each of us the choice between violence, militarism and war, Or choosing love – I choose to love….

Mairead Maguire was awarded the Prize for her extraordinary actions to help end the deep ethnic/political conflict in her native Northern Ireland. She shares the award with Betty Williams. She co-founded the Community of Peace People and is an outspoken activist on a number of conflict situations around the world.

Terumi Tanaka, A & H Bomb Survivors’ Organisation, Japan (several times nominated for Nobel Peace Prize) Grasping the opportunity to free humanity of the danger of nuclear annihilation

Nihon Hidankyo is the only nation-wide organisation of A-bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Hibakusha). It works for the prevention of nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons, and for compensation and improved protection and assistance for the Hibakusha. 4 Saturday September 14 Registration: 8:30 - 10:00 TIme: 10:00 - 16:00 Venue: ABF Huset, Palmesalen Conference registration form TOPIC 1. INTERVENTION: WEAPONS or WORDS? ye pher R . . Chri sto : S gt P h oto The topic of intervention has become much more current than we imagined when we started planning this conference in January, with the war in Syria now escalating into a possible phase of external intervention. IPB proposes a discussion about the tendency of leaders to choose direct intervention (now- adays with drones, or air strikes as in Mali and many before) instead of conflict prevention, peace-building and civilian-protection approaches.In that discussion we wish to include the impact of the military-industrial complex and its powerful lobbies in favour of armament and military spending. We will explore this challenging topic through various perspectives and case studies. On Sun- day there will be presentations and debate on what an alternative, non-violent strategy might look like. 5 Welcome and Introduction 10:25 - 10:40 Roots of the Conflict and Possi- ble Solutions

Moderator: Michael Schulz, University of Tomas Magnusson, IPB Co-President Gothenburg

Michael Schulz is Associate Professor in Keynote Speech Peace and Development Research at the University of Gothenburg. He is a Middle 10:05 - 10:25 East expert and spent the first half of this Obama’s Wars: Imperial power in a year in the region, studying the conflict in multi-polar world Syria.

Joseph Gerson, American Friends 10:55 - 11:25 Service Committee (Quakers) – USA Discussion Joseph serves as AFSC’s disarmament coordinator, as director of programmes in 11:25 - 11:55 New England, and as director of the Peace and Economic Security Programme. He coffee break has worked with AFSC since 1976. Joseph plays a leading role in building collabo- rations among U.S., Asian, and European Afghanistan peace and nuclear weapons abolition 11:55 - 12:40 movements. His programme work focuses on challenging and overcoming U.S. global hegemony, including its preparations for, 11:55 - 12:10 and threats to initiate, nuclear war and its The law against war – and why 12 military domination of the Asia-Pacific and years of intervention in Afghanistan the Middle East. must come to an end

Lars-Gunnar Linljestrand, Session 1 – Syria chair, Afghanistan Solidarity Organisation 10:25 - 11:25 Lars-Gunnar Liljestrand is a lawyer and has together with some colleagues just published a book on international law and 10:05 - 10:25 interventions, called “The law against war”. Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Lars Gunnar is chairman of the Swedish Laureate 1976 Afghanistan Solidarity Organisation.

Mairead will report on her recent 10 day visit to Lebanon and Syria, leading a 12:10 - 12:25 16 person delegation from 8 countries, 2014 - from an Afghan perspective invited by Mussalaha Reconciliation Move- ment. The visit was to promote a process Freshta Dost of dialogue and reconciliation in Syria between its people and Syrian government Freshta Dost is an Afghan refugee living in and reject outside intervention and war. Sweden. She is an active member of the

6 Swedish Afghanistan Committee, and will 14:35 - 14:50 give a women’s perspective on the current The Militarisation of the High North situation in Afghanistan. Agneta Norberg, Swedish Peace Council 12:25 - 12:40 European resistance to prolonged war Agneta Norberg is an IPB Board mem- ber, and represents the Swedish Peace Karim popal, Afghan lawyer Council. She was a convener of the recent conference of the Global Network against Karim Popal is an Afghan refugee living in Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space, in Germany. He has been active in the Kiruna, Northern Sweden.. build-up of European resistance to the prolonged war in Afghanistan, He is a lawyer and has taken part in the German 14:50 - 15:05 legal case on the killings by German Campaigning against drone warfare soldiers at Kunduz in 2009. – the Norwegian experience

12:40 - 13:00 Alexander Harang, Norwegian Discussion Peace Association

Alexander Harang is Leader of the Nor- 13:00 - 14:30 wegian Peace Association, and an expert/ activist on arms trade. Lunch break

15:05 - 15:20 Discussion Session 2 – Space weapons, drones and intervention 15:20 - 16:00 14:30 - 16:00 Discussion in small groups Small groups will discuss a draft IPB Triennial statement, highlighting the need for much Moderator: greater investment in peaceful methods of preventing armed conflicts. The final session of Tarja Cronberg, MEP, IPB Board the conference will bring together all the themes Member, Chair, Peace Union of Finland in order to develop a better understanding of the inter-linkages.

7 Annual MacBride Peace Prize ceremony Saturday evening, September 14

TIME: 18:00-21:00 Venue: Immanuelskyrkan, Kungstensgatan 17

Every year the IPB awards a special prize to a person or organisation that has done outstanding work for peace, disarmament and/or human rights.

These were the principal concerns of Sean MacBride, the distinguished Irish statesman who was Chairman of IPB from 1968-1974 and President from 1974-1985.

Over the years we have honoured many courageous and committed peace workers and organisations. For more information, please click HERE

This year’s Prize will be awarded to:

Bradley Manning, the US whistleblower recently convicted in a much publicised court-martial. moderator: REINER BRAUN, IPB Board member and Exec. Director, International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms

Tomas Magnusson and Anna Ek – Whistleblowing in Sweden: Bofors and beyond Tomas and Anna will describe the case in which an engineer and sales promoter from the Bofors arms factory revealed illegal transfers of weapons to forbidden countries - and will assess its importance today. The presentation will include a short TV clip. Speakers:

Ann Wright – Private Manning Support Network, USA. Acceptance speech Ann Wright is a retired US Army Colonel and a former US Diplomat who resigned in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war – she is now a peace activist – for outspoken opposition to torture, indefinite detention at Guantanamo, assassin drones and Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands etc.

Pierre Schori Individual Integrity and State Security in a Wired World? Pierre Schori is a retired Swedish Minister for Foreign Aid and Migration and Deputy Foreign Minister. He worked with Prime Minister Olof Palme in the Socialist International. Among his most recent books are “The road out of Afghanistan” and “Nine-eleven, the war in Iraq and the world after Bush”.

Peter Becker – International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Germany Peter Becker has for over 20 years been Chair of the German section of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) and is now International Co-President. He made important contributions to the International Court of Justice nuclear verdict in 1996 and the lawsuit against the stationing of U.S. nuclear weapons in Germany. He also worked to reject German participation in the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He established Europe’s leading energy law firm, which ran many successful cases against nuclear power plants, and in 2011 he won IPB’s MacBride Peace Prize.

The award ceremony will be followed by a short concert and a reception. Johan Norberg, a well-known guitarist and Jessica Pilnäs, jazz singer, will perform some inspiring music. 8 Sunday September 15 TIme: 09:30 - 14:00 Venue: ABF Huset, Palmesalen Conference registration form

TOPIC 2: MONEY and MINDS

IPB will make its case for including military spending in the UN’s Post 2015 Development Agenda. With military spending at levels higher than at any time in history ($1.7 trillion in 2012), it is high time that this huge financial resource be considered within the framework of ‘innovative funding for development’. Discussion point: how to mobilise civil society on this important issue?

We will also focus on the ‘misuse of brainpower’ ie the tendency for science/engineering/ technology to be put at the service of the military system, rather than on human needs. How many know that over 50 per cent of the US government’s Research & Development budget is spent by the Pentagon?

9 Alternatives to intervention 09:50 - 10:05 a culture of peaceful Proactive Presence – Protection of conflict resolution human rights defenders in Colombia 09:30 - 10:40 Frida Larsson, Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation Moderator: Frida Larsson has a background in Peace Hedda Langemyr, Norwegian Peace and Conflict Studies and is now Programme Council Secretary at SweFOR for the Peace Service and International Accompaniment Programme in Colombia. 09:35 - 09:50 ‘Peace Monitor’ - a report on positive examples of peaceful conflict 10:05 - 10:20 resolution Hunger for Talking Peace: Somali diaspora programme after 20 years of Christoffer Burnett-Cargill, war Secretary-General, Swedish Peace & Arbitration Society Suleiman Abdi Ali, SWEDSOM Aid

Christoffer Burnett-Cargill has for 3 years Suleiman Abdi Ali has been living in been Secretary General of SPAS. Sweden for 25 years, and has been actively Previously he has been living in conflict involved in vocational training and “Culture areas in the Balkans and the Middle East, of Peace” programmes in Somalia. He rep- working with development cooperation resents SwedSom Aid Organisation from and peace-related issues. Gothenburg, Sweden.

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10 10:20 - 10:40 11:45 - 12:00 Discussion From reaction to prevention: economic and political aspects

10:40 - 11:10 Prof. Lars Ingelstam, Professor coffee break Lars Ingelstam, PhD in mathematics, Professor Emeritus of Technology and Social Change (Linköping University), former head of Secretariat for Future Studies, a unit Money and minds created in 1973 to work with the Swedish 11:10 - 13:40 Government. Lars has published books and papers on social economics, systems theory, weapons exports and security and defence Introduction/Moderator: policies. Ingeborg Breines, IPB Co-President, former Director of UNESCO Liaison Office, Geneva. 12:00 - 12:15 Campaigning on military spending Colin Archer, Secretary-General IPB 11:55 - 11:30 Global military spending: Colin Archer has been the IPB’s Secretary-General since 1990. He has facts and trends an academic background from the UK in languages and development studies. He Carina Solmirano, Senior Researcher, has been a peace and global justice cam- Military Expenditure Project, Stockholm paigner for over 40 years, and since 2005 International Peace Research Institute has concentrated on IPB’s Disarmament for Sustainable Development programme Carina Solmirano is a Senior Researcher and the Global Day of Action on Military for the Military Expenditure project at the Spending. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, where she is responsible for Latin America, Middle East and South 12:15 - 12:35 Asia. Prior to SIPRI, she worked at the Discussion University of Denver, where she obtained her MA in International Security. She has also worked on disarmament issues at the Asociacion para Politicas Publicas and as Final plenary a political advisor in the Argentine Senate. 12:35 - 13:00

11:30 - 11:45 14:00 - 16:00 Diakonia’s perspective on peace and the post 2015 agenda The nordic meeting – only for Nordic members of the IPB Anna åkerlund, advisor, Conflict and Justice issues, Diakonia VENUE: ABF-Huset 11 Making Peace Photo exhibition

Opening hours: 10:00 - 20:00 Venue: the Nobel Museum

The conference coincides with the showing at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm of IPB’s special centenary exhibit ‘Making Peace’, a photo exhibition curated by Ashley Woods (REALexpo.org).

It features 120 high quality photographs illustrating the struggle for peace around the world over the last century. Visits to the Museum and the exhibit will be part of the programme. See http://www.makingpeace.org

12 Practical information Our venues:

ABF HUSET (Saturday 14th – Sunday 15th September)

Our main conference venue.

Address: Sveavägen 41, 2 tr 111 83 Stockholm Tel: 08-453 41 00

NOBELMUSEET (NOBEL MUSEUM) (Friday 13th September, 18:00 – 21:00) Click HERE to open the map in a Address: separate window Stortorget 2, Gamla Stan 103 16Stockholm Tel: +46 (0) 8 534 818 00

Immanuelskyrkan (Immanuel Church) (Saturday 14th September, 18:00 – 21:00)

Address: Kungstensgatan 17 113 83 Stockholm Tel: +46 (0)8-587 503 00

Getting to Stockholm from the airport: By bus: From Arlanda, Bromma and Skavsta airport, it’s easy to get to Stockholm City Terminal/T Centralen with the airport bus. For more information visit Flygbussarna’s website. Price: Arlanda-Stockholm City Terminal: 99 SEK (takes about 45 minutes, depending on the traffic)

By train: Get to Stockholm from Arlanda airport in 20 minutes! For more information visit Arlanda Express website. Price: 260 SEK per person (return ticket: 490 SEK) NOTE: Make sure to buy the ticket before you go on board of the train. Arlanda Express charges 50 SEK extra for buying the ticket on board. It is not necessary to book the ticket in advance.

By taxi: Taxi stands are located just outside the airport entrance, clear markings will guide you to the nearest taxi stand. The ride to Stockholm takes about 30-40 minutes from the Arlanda airport, depending on the traffic. Price: About 500 SEK (from the Arlanda airport – prices vary from one company to another)

NOTE: For more information about hotels, transportation and venues, please click HERE 13 All are welcome! To register, please click HERE. Send conference registrations to: [email protected]

Conference Coordinator (Stockholm): Aida Burnett-Cargill [email protected]

IPB Secretary-General (Geneva): Colin Archer [email protected]

Full details and registration forms at: http://www.ipb.org

Swedish partner groups:

Swedish Peace Council Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, SPAS Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation, SWEFOR

IPB wishes to acknowledge financial support from:

Polden-Puckham Charitable Trust, UK Rissho Kosei Kai, Japan