For 25 years Desmond Tutu has been an integral part of the PeaceJam Family, and he will be greatly missed.
His memory and legacy will live on in the hearts of PeaceJam youth, Nobel Laureates and global community who have been profoundly inspired by his extraordinary spirit, compassion, wisdom and joy.
A memorial service will be held Saturday Jan 1st, 2022 at 10 am (SAST/ GMT +2 time), and PeaceJam hopes to have a way for the global community to join virtually. Check PeaceJam social media for updates.
A high-level dialogue during the NPT Review Conference, organised by UNIDIR and Sweden, on the relevance of gender equality and gender perspectives across the three pillars of the NPT.
Moderated by the Director of UNIDIR, Robin Geiss, this conversation will involve foreign ministers, diplomats and experts who will share insights from their work to advance gender equality in international security.
Panellists will discuss practical measures that can foster gender equality in the NPT process and of arms control and disarmament more broadly. They will review current progress and provide ideas to strengthen the integration of gender considerations across the three pillars of the NPT.
Speakers:
- Dr. Emma Belcher, President, Ploughshares Fund.
- Leena Al-Hadid, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the UN, OSCE, and Vienna-based International Organisations
- Ann Linde, Foreign Minister, Sweden
- Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Moderator:
- Dr. Robin Geiss, Director, UNIDIR
*More speakers to be announced soon.
On Zoom – meeting details here. Becca Mohally Renk has lived and worked in Nicaragua with the Jubilee House Community and its project there, the Center for Development in Central America, for the past 20 years. In her work in sustainable community development with the JHC-CDCA, Becca has focused on health care, worker-owned cooperatives, at-risk teenage girls, and educating those in the global north about realities in Nicaragua. Becca and her husband, Paul, have two teenage daughters and live in a rural village outside Managua.
