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16 June – WEBINAR -“NATO IN THE ARCTIC”

Sunday June 16, 2024 organized by the Global Women for Peace – United Against NATO (GWUAN) 
Registration/program https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdO2tqTIuHNU2kgT-PS1xUzWZcR2tgxXQ

19.00 Helsinki/St. Petersburg time

18.00 Stockholm/Oslo/Copenhagen time

17.00 London time

12.00 Toronto/Washington time

09.00 Seattle time

08.00 Anchorage time

Description

Webinar organized by the Global Women for Peace – United Against NATO (GWUAN)

Moderator: Pippa Bartolotti – author and politician working with United National Anti-war Coalition and Global Women United for Peace against NATO 
Opening words: Sean Conner – Executive Director of IPB
Event order: 1. US, Canada, Russia – 30 min 
US: Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space – Breaking Russia up to get at Arctic resources 
Canada: Tamara Lorincz – Pugwash Group, Voice of Women for Peace, WILPF – The militarization of Canada’s Arctic
Russia: Oleg Bodrov – physicist, ecologist, board member of the International Peace Bureau, Chairman of the Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland, St. Petersburg, Russia – Victory With Weapons is Impossible in the Atomic World 

Discussion 20 min 
2. Norway, Sweden, Denmark/Greenland, Finland – 40 min 
Norway: Ingeborg Breines – Former Chair of IPB and UNESCO Director – The militarization especially in the Norwegian Arctic, new American bases and the Arctic Council 
Sweden: Lars Drake – Environmental economist and former adjunct professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences – Natural resources in the Arctic – extraction, environment and international conflicts 
Denmark/Greenland: Palle Bendsen – long time climate, environmental, anti-nuclear activist, involved in opposition to uranium mining plans in Southern Greenland. Engaged in the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution and the Council for International Conflict Resolution, where he in 2019 authored an analysis of the “changing Arctic” – The Arctic is Changing – AGAIN 
Finland: Teemu Matinpuro, executive director of the Finnish Peace Committee – Finland – NATO – DCA – the Arctic 
Discussion 30 min 

Supporters of the webinar: – GWUAN (Global Women for Peace United Against NATO) – IPB (International Peace Bureau) – Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space – World BEYOND War

May 30, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized