Events

Nuclear Weapons Convention: Exploring and Developing Elements of a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

Tuesday 21 May, 2013
13:15 – 14:45
Room XI, Building A, UN Geneva

Side-event of Open Ended Working
Group on Nuclear Disarmament

Publication Launch: Moving Beyond Nuclear Deterrence to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

Launch of the 2nd edition of the Nuclear Abolition Forum
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
12:30 – 14:00
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
WMO/OMM Building Avenue de la Paix 7bis, Geneva

Featuring:
Ambassador Urs Schmid (Switzerland)
Ambassador Nobuyasu Abe (Japan)
Jean-Marie Collin (PNND, France)
Marc Finaud (Program Adviser, GCSP)
Alyn Ware (Founder, Nuclear Abolition Forum, New Zealand)
Teresa Bergman (Researcher, Basel Peace Office)

Youth, Sports and Peace: Building bridges in conflicts through Sport

6pm, Friday May 24
University of Basel, Lecture Hall 001
Petersgraben, Basel

Featuring:
Wilson Kipketer, runner. Current world record holder for the 800 and 1000 meters (indoors).
Spokesperson for L’organisation pour la Paix par le Sport (Peace and Sport)
Paol Hansen, Special Adviser UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace
Carola Szemerey, Youth Future Project
Henk Van Nieuwenhove, Flanders Peace Field project (the 1914 Soccer Truce)

Basel Peace Office Opening Reception

Friday 16 November, 2012
6:00 PM

Aula Hall, Kollegienhaus
University of Basel

Symposium: The Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and the imperative for nuclear abolition

Saturday November 17, 2012
10:00 – 12:30

University of Basel
Hörsaal Room 115
(Cafeteria Block)

Contact

Basel Peace Office

c/o Seminar für Soziologie
Universität Basel
Petersgraben 27
CH-4051 Basel
Switzerland

info@baselpeaceoffice.org