A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Our Common Good Joint Statement of Religious Leaders, Parliamentarians and Mayors

A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Our Common Good Joint statement of religious leaders, parliamentarians and mayors

Endorsers as at August 5, 2017

Parliamentarians (and former parliamentarians):

• Tomoko Abe MP (Japan) • Suray Carrillo MP (Costa Rica) • Shinya Adachi MP (Japan) • Nessa Childers MEP (Ireland) • Hirotaka Akamatsu MP (Japan) Member Committee on the Environment, Public Health • Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh MP (United Kingdom) and Food Safety Deputy Shadow Leader in the UK House of Commons • Saber Chowdhury MP (Bangladesh) • Ichiro Aisawa MP (Japan) PNND Co-President Secretary General of the Religions for Peace President of the Inter Parliamentary Union Parliamentary Support Group, Former Chair of the • Mauren Clarke MP, (Costa Rica) Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs • David Clendon MP (New Zealand) • Senator Byrganym Aitimova (Kazakhstan) • Barry Coates MP (New Zealand) Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Senator David Coltart (Zimbabwe) Former Kazakhstan Ambassador to the United Nations PNND Past President. • Mani Shankar Aiyar MP (India) Former Minister of Education, Sports and Culture PNND Co-President. Chair of the Rajiv Gandhi Action • Tarja Cronberg (Finland) Plan Group for a Nuclear Free and Nonviolent World PNND Co-President, Former Chair of the European Order Parliament Contact Group with Iran • Seiken Akamine MP (Japan) • David Cunliffe MP (New Zealand) • Cr Kozo Akino (Japan) Disarmament Spokesperson for the Labour Party • Christian Allard MSP (Scotland) • Senator Salwa Damen-Masri (Jordan) • Meyrem Almaci MP (Belgium) PNND Council Member. Chairperson of the Committee Leader of the Greens, Belgian Chamber of for Population and Development Representatives • Karima Delli MEP (France) • Antonio Álvarez MP (Costa Rica) Member Committee on Transport and Tourism • Abacca Anjain Maddison (Marshall Islands) • Graeme Dey MSP (Scotland) PNND Past-President. Former senator for Rongelap Deputy Convener, Rural Affairs, Climate Change and • Yoichiro Aoyagi MP (Japan) Environment Committee • Aytuğ Atici MP (Turkey) • Paul Dewar MP (Canada) PNND Council Member PNND Co-President. • Danielle Auroi MP (France) Opposition Critic (Spokesperson) on Foreign Affairs President of the European affairs committee, National • Natalia Diaz Quintana (Costa Rica) Assembly President of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Nobuyuki Baba MP (Japan) • Anneliese Dodds MEP (United Kingdom) • Brando Benifei MEP (Italy) Chair Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation Board Member EU40 (Network of Young MEPs) and Association Parliamentary Committee • Chic Brodie MSP (Scotland) • Linda Duncan MP (Canada) Convener of the Cross-Party Group on Social Enterprise PNND Canada Co-Chair • Agnieszka Brugger MdB (Germany) • Pastor Eurico MP (Brazil) Green Party Spokesperson for Disarmament Member of the International Relations Committee • Tony de Brum (Marshall Islands) • Linda Fabiani MSP (Scotland) Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Former Chair European and External Relations • Klaus Buchner MEP (Germany) Committee Member Committee on Foreign Affairs • Alain Ficini MP (Monaco) • Maria August Calle Andrade MP (Ecuador) PNND Council Member Member of the National Assembly • Javier Cambronero MP (Costa Rica)

 Representatives of the lower houses or national assemblies are listed as MP (Member of Parliament). Representatives from upper houses or senates are listed as Senator. The exception is Japan where the representatives from the upper house are known as Councillor (Cr) • Ute Finckh-Krämer MdB (Germany) • Birgitta Jonsdottir MP (Iceland) Vice-Chair of the Bundestag Sub-committee on PNND Council Member Disarmament and Arms Control • Mito Kakizawa MP (Japan) • Martin Foley MP (Australia) • Cr Mieko Kamimoto (Japan) Member for Albert Park, Parliament of Victoria • Saichi Kamiyama MP (Japan) • Hedy Fry MP (Canada) • Ichiro Kanke MP (Japan) OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative • Cr Genjiro Kaneko (Japan) on Gender Issues • Akira Kasai MP (Japan) • Cr Kenzo Fujisue (Japan) • Cr Ryuhei Kawada (Japan) PNND member • Takeo Kawamura MP (Japan) • Yukihisa Fujita MP (Japan) • Cr Naoki Kazama (Japan) Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign • Sue Kedgley (New Zealand) Affairs and Defense Wellington City Council • Cr Mizuho Fukushima (Japan) • Colin Keir MSP (Scotland) • Cr Tetsuro Fukuyama (Japan) • MK Dov Khenin (Israel) • Yasushi Furukawa MP (Japan) PNND Council Member • Alena Gajdůšková (Czech Republic) • Bill Kidd MSP (Scotland) PNND Council member. Former senator. PNND Co-President, Chair Scottish Parliament Cross- Former Vice-President of the Senate. Party Group on Nuclear Disarmament • Koichiro Genba MP (Japan) • Roderich Kiesewetter MdB (Germany) • Rob Gibson MSP (Scotland) PNND Council Member • Phil Goff MP (New Zealand). Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag Sub-Committee for Chair of PNND New Zealand. Former NZ Minister for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Disarmament and Arms Control. • Seiji Kihara MP (Japan) • Ana Gomes MEP (Portugal) • Makiko Kikuta MP (Japan) Deputy Chair, PNND European Parliament Section • Takatane Kiuchi MP (Japan) • Shigeyuki Goto MP (Japan) • Shuhei Kishimoto MP (Japan) • Yuichi Goto MP (Japan) • Fumiaki Kobayashi MP (Japan) • Masazumi Gotoda MP (Japan) • Cr Yukihito Koga (Japan) • Kennedy Graham MP (New Zealand) • Cr Akira Koike (Japan) Green Party Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, • Yasuko Komiyama MP (Japan) Disarmament and Defence • Kateřina Konečná MEP (Czech Republic) • Karoline Graswander-Hainz MEP (Austria) Committee on Environment, Public Health & Food Safety • Hiroshi Hase MP • Cr Hiroyuki Konishi (Japan) • Tim Guldimann MP (Switzerland) • Shoichi Kondo MP (Japan) Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Taro Kono MP (Japan) • Barbara Gysi MP (Switzerland) PNND Co-President PNND Council Member Former Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Cr Shinkun Haku (Japan) • Kazuko Kori MP (Japan) • Jill Hall MP (Australia) • Keiichi Koshimizu MP (Japan) Former Labour Party Whip in Parliament • Dennis Kucinich (United States) • Cr Masayoshi Hamada (Japan) PNND Alumni Council Member • Cr Yuuichiro Hata (Japan) Former Mayor of Cleveland and Member of the US • Akihiro Hatsushika MP (Japan) House of Representatives • Jamie Hepburn MSP (Scotland) • Chris Laidlaw (New Zealand) Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Chair, Wellington Regional Council Health • Jean Lambert MEP (United Kingdom) • Edine von Herold (Costa Rica) Chair, European Parliament Delegation for relations PNND Council Member with South Asia • Cr Daisaku Hiraki (Japan) • Christian Levrat MP (Switzerland) • Hiroshi Imazu MP (Japan) President of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Adam Ingram MSP (Scotland) • Sabine Lösing MEP (Germany) Former Minister for Children and Early Years Vice-Chair, European Parliament Committee on Security • Cr Kuniko Inoguchi (Japan) and Defense • Cr Satoshi Inoue (Japan) • Alain Lubamba wa Lubamba MP (DRC) • Shinji Inoue MP (Japan) Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs • Cr Michihiro Ishibashi (Japan) • Richard Lyle MSP (Scotland) • Shinichi Isa MP (Japan) • Syouzou Majima MP (Japan) • Cr Takae Ito (Japan) • Hideki Makihara MP (Japan) • Yoshitaka Ito MP (Japan) • Karen Makishima MP (Japan) • Kenta Izumi MP (Japan) • John Mason MSP (Scotland) • Senator Janis Johnson (Canada) • Sekio Masuta MP (Japan) Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs • Ibrahim Matola MP (Malawi) and International Trade Leader of the United Democratic Front party • Stewart Maxwell MSP (Scotland) • Cr Kohei Otsuka (Japan) Convenor of the Education and Culture Committee • Dimitrios Papadimoulis MEP (Greece) • Mark McDonald MSP (Scotland) Vice-President of the European Parliament • Christina McKelvie MSP (Scotland) • Melissa Parke MP (Australia) Convener of the European and External Affairs Former Minister for International Development Committee • Mark Parnell MLC (Australia) • Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC (Australia) Parliamentary leader, Greens South Australia Parliamentary co-leader Greens Western Australia • Liliane Maury Pasquier MP (Switzerland) • Cr Teruhiko Mashiko (Japan) Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Baroness Sue Miller (United Kingdom) • Georgi Pirinski MEP (Bulgaria) PNND Co-President Former Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria • Nobuhide Minorikawa MP (Japan) • Rudolf Rechsteiner MP (Switzerland) • Noriko Miyagawa MP (Japan) PNND Council Member • Cr Shingo Miyake (Japan) • Bilal Qasem MP • Takeshi Miyazaki MP (Japan) Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the • Dr Paul Monaghan MP (United Kingdom) Mediterranean 3rd Committee on Human Rights and Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Dialogue between Civilisations • Senator Claire Moore (Australia) • Sahar Qawasmi MP (Palestine) Shadow Minister for Women Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention • Henry Mora MP (Costa Rica) • Mario Redondo MP (Costa Rica) • Cr Shinji Morimoto (Japan) • Shane Reti MP (New Zealand). • Kentaro Motomura MP (Japan) Deputy Chair of PNND New Zealand • Eoghan Murphy MP (Ireland) • Senator Lee Rhiannon (Australia) Former Head of Ireland Delegation to the OSCE Greens spokesperson on International Aid & Parliamentary Assembly, Former officer of the Development Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisations • Michèle Rivasi MEP (France) • Christine Muttonen MP (Austria) Founder of the Commission for Independent Research PNND Co-President, Vice-President of the OSCE and Information on Radioactivity Parliamentary Assembly • Senator Douglas Roche (Canada) • Akihisa Nagashima MP (Japan) PNND Founding Chair. • Akira Nagatsuma MP (Japan) Former Disarmament Ambassador for Canada • Masaharu Nakagawa MP (Japan) • Viktor Rogalev MP (Kazakhstan) Former Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Technology PNND Council Member • Yasuhiro Nakane MP (Japan) • Senadora Laura Angélica Rojas Hernández (Mexico) • Norihiro Nakayama MP (Japan) PNND Council Member • Cr Masayoshi Nataniya (Japan) Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs • Margret Kiener Nellen MP (Switzerland) International Organizations of the Mexican Senate Head of the Swiss delegation to the Inter Parliamentary • Michael W Russell MSP (Scotland) Union Cabinet Secretary for Education & Lifelong Learning • Norbert Neuser MEP (Germany) • Hirofumi Ryu MP (Japan) • Holger Nielson MP (Denmark) • Tetsuo Saito MP (Japan) PNND Council member • Manabu Sakai MP (Japan) Former Foreign Minister of Denmark • Hiroyoshi Sasakawa MP (Japan) • Cr Hideki Niizuma (Japan) • Takahiro Sasaki MP (Japan) • Chinami Nishimura MP (Japan) • Akira Sato MP (Japan) • Cr Kuniyoshi Noda (Japan) • Hidemichi Sato MP (Japan) • Takeshi Noma MP (Japan) • Molly Scott-Cato MEP (UK) • Senator David Norris (Ireland) • Yoshikazu Shimada MP (Japan) PNND Council Member • Tadashi Shimizu MP (Japan) • Cr Katsumi Ogawa (Japan) • Cr Kanehiko Shindo (Japan) • Shinji Oguma MP (Japan) • Takashi Shinohara MP (Japan) • Masanobu Ogura MP (Japan) • Masayoshi Shintani MP (Japan) • Yoshinobu Ohira MP (Japan) • Yasuhisa Shiozaki MP (Japan) • Sei Ohmi MP (Japan) • Senator Lisa Singh (Australia) • Keitaro Ohno MP (Japan) Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Environment, • Seiji Ohsaka MP (Japan) Climate Change and Water • Katsuya Okada MP (Japan) • Alyn Smith MEP (United Kingdom) Former Foreign Minister Member Committee on Foreign Affairs • Mitsunari Okamoto MP (Japan) • Torstein Tvedt Solberg MP (Norway) • Shinsuke Okuno MP (Japan) • Gisela Splett MP (Germany) • Motohiro Oono MP (Japan) State Secretary at the Ministry of Transport and • Cr Kusuo Oshima (Japan) Infrastructure, Baden-Wuerttemberg • Cr Fusae Ota (Japan) • Kevin Stewart MSP (Scotland) • Maryan Street (New Zealand) • Harry Van Bommel MP (Netherlands) PNND Council Member. Former Minister of Housing and Member of the Netherlands Delegations to the NATO President of the Labour Party and OSCE Parliamentary Assemblies • Carlo Sommaruga MP (Switzerland) • Dirk Van der Maelen MP (Belgium) Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee PNND Council Member. Chairman Belgian Parliament • Cr Hideya Sugio (Japan) Commission for Foreign Affairs. • Katsumasa Suzuki MP (Japan) • Monika Vana MEP (Austria) • Keisuke Suzuki MP (Japan) Member Committee on Budgets Secretary General of PNND Japan, Member of the • Luis Vásquez MP (Costa Rica) Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs • Baroness Joan Walmsley (United Kingdom) • Takako Suzuki MP (Japan) Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for • Hiroaki Tabata MP (Japan) Children • Tsuyoshi Tabata MP (Japan) • Julie Ward MEP (United Kingdom) • Masaaki Taira MP (Japan) • Kitti Wasinondh MP (Thailand) • Kaname Tajima MP (Japan) Deputy Chair, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs • Takashi Takai MP (Japan) • Cr Miki Watanabe (Japan) • Yoshiaki Takaki MP (Japan) • Shu Watanabe MP (Japan) • Koichi Takemasa MP (Japan) • Maureen Watt MSP (Scotland) • Dario Tamburrano MEP (Italy) Minister for Public Health Committee on Industry, Research and Energy • Paul Wheelhouse MSP (Scotland) • Cr Masaaki Taniai (Japan) Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs • Taido Tanose MP (Japan) • Sandra White MSP (Scotland) • Keith Taylor MEP (United Kingdom) Deputy Convenor, Equal Opportunities Committee • Kantoku Teruya MP (Japan) • Josh Wilson MP (Australia) • Emily Thornberry MP (United Kingdom) Federal Member for Fremantle Former Shadow Attorney General • Cr Katsuo Yakura (Japan) • Tsutomu Tomioka MP (Japan) • Shunichi Yamaguchi MP (Japan) • David Torrance MSP (Scotland) • Cr Taro Yamamoto (Japan) • Kiyohiko Toyama MP (Japan) • Cr Yoshiki Yamashita (Japan) • Shinako Tsuchiya MP (Japan) • Cr Taku Yamazoe (Japan) • Cr Yoshifumi Tsuge (Japan) • Takahiro Yokomichi MP (Japan) • Kiyomi Tsujimoto MP (Japan) • Cr Shinichi Yokoyama (Japan) • Phil Twyford MP (New Zealand) • Hajime Yoshikawa MP (Japan) Associate Spokesperson for Environment • Cr Yumi Yoshikawa (Japan) • Ernest Urtasun MEP (Spain) • Uta Zapf (Germany) Vice-Chair Delegation to the Euro-Latin American PNND Past-President, PNND Representative to Inter Parliamentary Assembly Parliamentary Organisations. Former Chair of the • Elena Valenciano MEP (Spain) Bundestag Subcommittee on Disarmament and Arms Chair of the European Parliament Sub Committee on Control and Non-Proliferation

Human Rights • Bodil Valero MEP (Sweden) Member of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence

Mayors and local authorities:

• Eddie Ait (France) • Lianne Dalziel (New Zealand) Regional Councilor Ile-de- France Mayor of Christchurch Special Delegate for the President • Frank Demaumont (France) • Marie-France Beaufils (France) Mayor of Châlette-sur-Loing, Vice-president of Mayor of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Mayors for Peace France • Cllr David Blackburn (UK) • Críona Ní Dhálaigh (Ireland) Leeds City Council Lord Mayor of Dublin • Luigi Boria (USA) • Jan Durnez (Belgium) Mayor of Doral, Florida Mayor of Ypres • Jenny Brash (New Zealand) Vice-President of Mayors for Peace Wellington Regional Council Member of the Flemish Parliament • Michael Brennan (USA) • Christophe Faverjon (France) Mayor of the City of Portland Mayor of Unieux • Stuart Crosby (New Zealand) • António de Jesus Figueira Mendes (Portugal) Mayor of Tauranga President of the municipality of Grândola • Didier Guillaume (France) Mayor of Choisy-le-Roi • Paul Nanfack (Cameroon) • Councillor Mark Hackett (UK) Deputy Mayor of Fongo Tongo, Permanent UK Nuclear Free Local Authorities Secretary of African Mayors for Peace • Thorvald Hillestad (Norway) • Didier Paillard (France) Mayor of Re Mayor of Saint Denis • Rune Høiseth (Norway) • Lyn Patterson (New Zealand) Mayor of Larvik Community Mayor of Masterton • Nils Jensen (Canada) • Paul Quilès (France) Mayor of Oak Bay, British Columbia Mayor of Cordes-sur-Ciel • Svein Arne Jerstad (Norway) Former Defence Minister Mayor of Kveinsdal • Thilo Rentschler (Germany) • Jean-Claude Kennedy (France) Mayor of Aalen Mayor of Vitry-sur-Seine, Vice-president of • Philippe Rio (France) AFCDRP-Mayors for Peace France Mayor of Grigny • Mark Kleinschmidt (USA) • Stefan Schostock (Germany) Mayor of Chapel Hill, NC Lord Mayor of Hanover, • Gilles Kouchica (France) Vice-President of Mayors for Peace Councilman of city of Auriol • Dinesh Sharma (India) • Thomas Kuhn (Germany) Mayor of Lucknow Mayor of Bartholomä • Henri Stoll (France) • Jean-paul Lecoq (France) Mayor of Kaysersberg Mayor of Gonfreville l'Orcher • Tomihisa Taue (Japan) • Olivier Maingain (Belgium) Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan Mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels Vice President of Mayors for Peace • Kazumi Matsui (Japan) • Thore Vestby (Norway) Mayor of Hiroshima Mayor of Frogn. PNND Member President of Mayors for Peace Vice-President of Mayors for Peace • Josep Mayoral i Antigas (Spain) • Celia Wade-Brown (Aotearoa-New Zealand), Mayor of Granollers, Spain Mayor of Wellington. Vice President of Mayors for Peace Executive City Member, Mayors for Peace • António de Jesus Figueira Mendes (Portugal) • Ray Wallace (Aotearoa-New Zealand) President of the municipality of Grândola Mayor of Lower Hutt • Dr Guy Morin (Switzerland) • Laurent Wehrli (Switzerland) President (Mayor) of the Basel Stadt Canton. Mayor of Montreux Member of Mayors for Peace • Christopher Williams (Wales) • Paul Murphy (UK) Vale of Glamorgan Council Lord Mayor of Manchester Dinas Powys Community Council • Mr. Nkenfack (Cameroon) Mayor of Fongo Tongo Vice President of Mayors for Peace

Religious leaders:*

• Swami Anjani (USA) • Kiran Bali (UK) Director of Community Relations Chairperson, United Religions Initiative Global Kashi Foundation Council • Dr. Vinu Aram (India) • Dr. Michael Bangert (Switzerland) Director, Shanti Ashram Pastor of the Christ Catholic Church of Basel Executive Committee, Religions for Peace • Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah (Saudi Arabia) • Rev George Armstrong (Aotearoa-New President, Forum for Promoting Peace in Zealand) Muslim Societies Advisory Forum, KAICIID International • Armando Bernardini (Italy) Dialogue Centre President, International Foundation for Inter- • Jocelyn Armstrong (Aotearoa-New Zealand) religious and Intercultural Education Vice-president of the Auckland Inter-Faith • Adalberta Mazzini Bernardini (Italy) Council Vice-President, International Foundation for • Crdl Raymundo Damasceno Assis (Brazil) Inter-religious and Intercultural Education Archbishop of Aparecida, • Richard Bickle (England) Moderator, Latin American and Caribbean Chair of Trustees, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Council of Religious Leaders England & Scotland • Rev Allan Aubrey Boesak (USA) • Bruce Kent (UK) Desmond Tutu Chair of Peace, Justice, and Vice President Pax Christi UK Reconciliation Studies, Christian Theological • Mr. Steve Killelea (Australia) Seminary and Butler University Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace • Geraldine Bridges (United Kingdom) International Treasurer, Religions for Peace International Fellowship of Reconciliation • Rev. Kouichi KOBASHI (Japan) • Rev. Gary Burrill (Canada) Moderator, National Christian Council Japan United Heritage Church • Rev. Keiji Kunitomi (Japan) Secretary General, Religions for Peace Japan • Bishop Oscar Cantú (U.S.A.) • Rev. Paul Lansu (Belgium) Chairman, Committee on International Justice Senior Policy Advisor Pax Christi International and Peace, United States Conference of • Davorka Lovrekovic (Germany) Catholic Bishops President, International Fellowship of • Kirit Daftary (USA) Reconciliation President of the Anuvibha Association of • Sister Marie Lucey (USA) North America, Member of the Board of Director of Advocacy and Member Relations, Trustees, Parliament of the World’s Religions Franciscan Action Network • Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry (USA) • Robert Mackay (New Zealand) National Presiding Minister, House of the Lord National Coordinator, Interfaith Youth Churches Movement in New Zealand • Rev. Paula Clayton Dempsey (USA) International Ambassador, Council for a Director of Partnership Relations, Alliance of Parliament of the World's Religions Baptists • Mairead Maguire (Northern Ireland) • Jamie Cresswell (UK) Nobel Peace Laureate, International Advisor for President – European Buddhist Union Parliament of the World’s Religions, Chair – Religions for Peace UK Co-founder Peace People • Marie Dennis (USA) • Sharon Marshall (New Zealand/Switzerland) President, Unitarian Universalists of Basel Co-President Pax Christi International • Rev. Crystal Silva-McCormick (USA) • Bishop Kevin Dowling (South Africa) Minister in the United Church of Christ Co-President Pax Christi International Member of the Board of Trustees, Parliament of • Rev. Dr. Diana C. Gibson (USA) the World’s Religion Chair, Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice • Ms. Paddy Meskin (South Africa) • Pat Gaffney (UK) President, Union of Temple Sisterhoods, and General Secretary Pax Christi Coordinator, Religions for Peace International • Ela Gandhi (South Africa) Women’s Committee Gandhi Development Trust • Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra (UK) Co-President of Religions for Peace Religions for Peace ECRL • Prof. Mehmet Gormez (Turkey) Muslim Council of Britain President of Religious Affairs of Turkey • Michel Monod (Switzerland) • Jonathan Granoff (USA) IFOR 2nd representative to the UN in Geneva, President, Global Security Institute. Minister (ret) Protestant church of Geneva. Co-founder, United Religions Initiative Nuclear • Sheikh Shaban Mubaje (Uganda) Disarmament Cooperation Circle Grand Mufti, Uganda Muslim Supreme Coucil; • Professor Susannah Heschel (USA) Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace-African Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth Council of Religious Leaders College • Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid (USA) • Fred Hiltz (Canada) President Sound Vision. Chair Emeritus, Archbishop and Primate Parliament of the World's Religions The Anglican Church of Canada • Rev. Dr. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (USA) • Rev. Doug Hostetter (USA) President, Buddhist Council of New York Director, United Nations Office • Rori Picker Neiss (USA) Mennonite Central Committee Director of Programming,Education, and • Dr. Kazi Nurul Islam (Bangladesh) Community Engagement, Bais Abraham Founding Director, Centre for Inter-religious and Congregation Intercultural Dialogue • Rev. Kosho Niwano (Japan) Member Global Council of United Religions President-Designate, Rissho Kosei-Kai Initiative (URI) Executive Committee, Religions for Peace • Lucas Johnson (USA) • H.E. John Cardinal Onaiyekan (Nigeria) International Coordinator, International Archbishop of Abuja, Archdiocese of Abuja Fellowship of Reconciliation Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace-African • The Rev. Susan C. Johnson (Canada) Council of Religious Leaders National Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church • Ven. Eigen Onishi (Japan) • Senji Kanaeda (USA) Kiyomizu Temple Nipponzan Myohoji Bainbridge Island Dojo • Dr Rosemarie Pere (New Zealand) • Rev Bill Swing (USA) Maori (indigenous) spiritual leader President, United Religions Initiative • Rev. Nathaniel W. Pierce (USA) • Dr. Din Syamsuddin (Indonesia) US Representative, Anglican Pacifist Fellowship President, Muhammadiyah, and Moderator, • Mary Anne Plaatjies van Huffel (South Africa), Asian Conference of Religions for Peace President, World Council of Churches Africa • Mitsuaki Takami (Japan) • Guy Quinlan (USA) Catholic archbishop of Nagasaki Chair of the All Souls (Unitarian Universalist) • Pauline Tangiora (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Nuclear Disarmament Task Force Maori (indigenous) spiritual leader President of Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear • Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed (USA) Policy Director, Office for Interfaith and Community • Dr. Tariq Ramadan (Switzerland/UK) Alliances, Islamic Society of North America President of the European Muslim Network Executive Committee, Religions for Peace • Sister Mega Rice (USA) • Hirotsugu Terasaki (Japan) Ploughshares Executive Director for Peace Affairs, • Chief Rabbi David Rosen (USA) International Soka Gakkai International Director of Interreligious Affairs, American • Dr. William F. Vendley (USA) Jewish Committee Secretary General, Religions for Peace • Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck (Germany) International International Fellowship of Reconciliation • Michael R. Walli (USA) • Priestess Beatriz Schulthess (Costa Rica) Ploughshares President, Indigenous Peoples Ancestral • Monica Willard (USA) Spiritual Council UN Representative for the United Religions • Sulak Sivaraksa (Thailand) Initiative Co-founder, International Network of Engaged • Rev Diane Marama Winder (New Zealand) Buddhists Director, Sephira Institute • Imam Syed Soharwardy (Canada) • Jim Winkler (USA) Islamic Supreme Council of Canada President and General Secretary, National • Rev. Kristin Stoneking (USA) Council of Churches of Christ in the USA Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation • Rev Thomas Wipf (Switzerland) • Rev. Kyoichi Sugino (Japan/USA) Moderator of the European Council of Religious Deputy Secretary General, Religions for Peace Leaders, Member, Religions for Peace International International Executive • Ven. Gijun Sugitani (Japan) • Gilberto Zamora Perez (USA) Chair, Religions for Peace International Standing Nipponzan Myohoji Bainbridge Island Dojo Commission on Disarmament and Security; Supreme Advisor, Tendai Buddhism • Samina Sundas (USA) Founder and Executive Director of American Muslim Voice

* Note: Some religious communities preferred to endorse as a community rather than having their leaders endorse. These are included below with the names of those authorising the endorsement.

Religious organisations:

• Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK) Co-Chairs: Martin Birdseye and Caroline Gilbert. Executive Members: Kelvin Gascoyne, Michael Gilbert, Michael Pulham, Patricia Pulham, Angela Rayner and Neil Berry. • Interfaith Harmony Committee of Lahore High Court Bar Association (Pakistan) • International Fellowship of Reconciliation (International) • Quaker Peace and Service Committee (Canada) Lana Robinson (Clerk), Matthew Legge (Peace Program Coordinator) • Unitarian Universalist Association (International) Rev. Peter Morales (President), Jim Key (Moderator), Rev. Harlan Limpert (Chief Operating Officer), Rev. Eric Cherry (International Resources Director), Bruce Knotts (United Nations Office Director)