military tensions, resources, environment, climate, equity, cooperation, peace keeping

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Supporters: IPB, GWUAN, space4peace, WBW, No-to-NATO, WILPF-Canada, VOW, Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland – Russia, Women for Peace – Finland

Opening words: Sean Conner – Executive Director of IPB

10 minutes presentation/speaker

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

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

Moderator: Pippa Bartolotti – author and politician working with United National Anti-war Coalition and Global Women United for Peace against NATO

Supporters: IPB (International Peace Bureau), GWUAN (Global Women for Peace United Against NATO), Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, World BEYOND War, No to war – No to NATO international network, –     Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom – Canada, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland – Russia, Women for Peace – Finland