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Public Webinar: the Hiroshima-ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security 2020

Aug 4, 2020

Path forward for nuclear disarmament
19:00-21:00 Japan Standard Time (UTC/GMT +9 hours)
Thursday, August 6, 2020


Live streamed via YouTube

Hiroshima Prefecture and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Award-winning organization, hold the Hiroshima-ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security 2020 for three weeks from late July to August 6. As an International Steering Group member of ICAN, Peace Boat is co-coordinating this programme. Through this online training, we aim to nurture global leaders to make concrete and peaceful contributions to the world. 31 students and young professionals from both nuclear-weapons states and non-nuclear-weapons states (20 nationalities) have been participating in the program online.

The Hiroshima-ICAN Academy public webinar was live-streamed on August 6 - Hiroshima Day. The video will be uploaded here shortly!



Webinar: The Path forward for nuclear disarmament

Thursday, August 6, 2020
19:00-21:00 Japan Standard Time (UTC/GMT +9 hours)

Live streaming on YouTube

Program Overview

1) How can governments and civil society work together better?
Panel discussion: Yuzaki Hidehiko (Governor of Hiroshima), Beatrice Fihn (ICAN), Alexander Kmentt (Austrian diplomat)
Comments: Mary Popeo (Peace Culture Village, Hiroshima)
Q&A and discussion

2) How can we break the nuclear disarmament impasse? 
Speaker: Izumi Nakamitsu (UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs)
Q&A and discussion

3) Concluding remarks: Koko Kondo (Hibakusha) and two Academy participants