Nukes, NATO and Right Wing Nationalism

Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 5:00pm

Speakers: 

Reiner Braun

Co-President, International Peace Bureau

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Reiner Braun to campus and hear him speak about his decades-long efforts in working towards global, nuclear non-proliferation. Dr. Braun is currently involved in planning activities for the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty negotiations at the United Nations in March and June, as well as NATO counter-summit activities and for the NPT PrepCom in Vienna - both in May.

Reiner Braun has been a leading figure in the German and European peace movements since the early 1980s. His connections with movements and political figures from Manila to Moscow and Berlin to Buenos Aries is extraordinary. He is currently Co-president of the International Peace Bureau as was the lead organizer of IPB’s massive Disarm! For a Climate of Peace! Congress in Berlin this past October. He was the founder of the No to NATO/No to War International Network. He has long been associated with International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), the Max Planck Institute and the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms.

Co-Sponsored with the American Friends Service Committee.

 

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