Finding Clarity in Chaos: Creating a Vision of Peace and Security
Photo Credits: Krieger Yanoé and Bimal Khadka
IPPNW Geneva Liaison Office was honored to host the European Regional Meeting, Finding Clarity in Chaos: Creating a Vision of Peace and Security, in Geneva Friday 11 April to Sunday 13 April 2025. The reasons for choosing Geneva were its unique role as an international city of peace and to celebrate the opening of the Geneva Liaison Office. We hosted guests from civil society, academia and politics to speak, participate in panel discussions, and addressed your questions. We were excited about this opportunity for our members to collaborate and plan our critical next steps to reaching our ultimate goal of preventing nuclear war and abolishing nuclear weapons.
The participants at the 2025 European Regional Meeting created a declaration.
Highlights
The agenda covered many topics including:
- Current global risk of nuclear war with specific focus on Europe
- WHO’s Global Health and Peace Initiative
- Medical professionals’ role in the prevention of war
- WHA resolution on the “effects of nuclear weapons on health and health services”
- Interdependence between the two existential threats: nuclear war and climate crisis -how we can address both -create a new frame to reach out to peace and the climate movement
- IPPNW strategy planning & IPPNW European affiliate updates
- Regional Vice President and Student Representative elections
Sponsorship
Angelika Claussen
IPPNW Sweden
Kati Juva
Helmut Lohrer
Rebecca Wales Robinson
Urs Rüegg