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Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Exploring the Next Steps
17th and 18th October 2008, Wellington
National Consultative Committee on Disarmament Links to: flier, programme, registration form, some relevant sites and documents
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The National Consultative Committee on Disarmament invites you to a public meeting and a workshop / seminar at Turnbull House, Bowen Street, Wellington.
New Zealand's Role in Disarmament, Friday, 17 October
- 7.30pm: Political parties speak - New Zealand's Role in Disarmament, no charge
Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Exploring the Next Steps, Saturday, 18 October
- 9.15am to 5.30pm: Workshop / seminar with presentations:
- 'Overview of the current situation and initiatives being considered', Felicity Hill, International Vice-President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- 'The United Nations Role, Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, Conference on Disarmament and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Report', Dr Kate Dewes, Member, UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
- 'The model Nuclear Weapon Convention and the Australian Japanese Commission', Dr Tilman Ruff, Director, ICAN Australia
- 'An Ottawa/Oslo Process for nuclear weapons and other grassroots initiatives', Mary Wareham, Coordinator, Aotearoa NZ Cluster Munition Coalition and Edwina Hughes, Coordinator, Peace Movement Aotearoa
Followed by discussion 'Next steps to eliminate nuclear weapons, where to from here?' (in plenary and / or facilitated small groups, as preferred by the participants).
Programme, registration form and background information; waged $30, unwaged $20 (includes morning / afternoon tea, and lunch)
- 7pm: Dinner with keynote speaker Dr Sue Wareham, Chair, Medical Association for the Prevention War, Australia; waged $30, unwaged $25
Combined seminar and dinner price: waged $50, unwaged $35
Flier and programme: Word doc | pdf file Programme only: Word doc | pdf file
Registration form: Word doc | pdf file
Background information on seminar: Word doc | pdf file
Some relevant web sites, documents and articles
Web sites: ICAN | Reaching Critical Will | Abolition 2000 | Acronym Institute
- Model Nuclear Weapons Convention, a Convention to ban nuclear weapons and ensure their elimination: Information page | Convention text
- Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission: Web site | 'Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms' Report
- Submission to the US Strategic [Nuclear] Posture Review Commission, British American Security Information Council, 10 September 2008
- Restraining Nuclear Arms in the Asian Century: An Agenda for Australia, Rory Medcalf, September 2008
- Nuclear Weapons Forever: The US Plan to Modernize its Nuclear Weapons Complex, Western States Legal Foundation, Information Brief, Spring 2008
- Reviving Disarmament: An Interview With Hans Blix,
Wade Boese, Paul Kerr, and Daryl G. Kimball, July / August 2008
- Preparing for 2010: Striking a Balance between Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation, March 2008, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
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