Speakers & Experts

Organiser, activist, and writer. Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament programme of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the world's oldest feminist peace organisation. They served from 2008–2024 on the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to ban nuclear weapons. Author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages.

ray.acheson@wilpf.org

www.rayacheson.com

Our Common Wealth 670, Concordia university

TOPICS
Demilitarization, colonialism, imperialism, Oceania, pacific, Indigeneity, sovereignty, militarism.

theresaarriola@gmail.com

Board member, About Face Veterans Against the War; War Resisters International Network

TOPICS
Organizing skills and strategies, dismantling militarism and white supremacy and constructing multiracial democracy, U.S. empire, war, state violence.

kickitover@gmail.com

Research Director, Climate and Community Initiative; Co-Director, Transition Security Project

Topics: Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Military Climate Policy

pbigger@climateandcommunity.org

Knowledge hub coordinator, Transnational Institute (TNI) and an experienced communications consultant, researcher and publications editor.  He is founder and chief editor of TNI's flagship annual publication, State of Power, which has run since 2012. He was co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed - How the military and corporations are seeking to shape a climate-changed world  (Pluto Press, 2015). 

Topics: digitalisation, border politics, climate change, militarism and economic justice

nick@nickbuxton.info ; Tw/X: @nickbuxton

Codepink; Anti-Militarism and Climate Justice Organizer based in DC and International Experiential Learning Educator.  

oliviadinucci@gmail.com

Co-President of International Peace Bureau; Lead Convenor, STOP the War Coalition Philippines and Nuclear Free Pilipinas; Asia-Europe Peoples Forum; ASEAN Civil Society Conference-ASEAN Peoples Forum; Philippines focal person at the No Nukes Asia Forum.

Topics: war, Philippines, Asia/Pacific, imperialism, anti-base movements, gender.

corafabros@gmail.com

Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian, Guam

Topics: militarization, Guåhan/Guam, Mariana Islands, Asia/Pacific, environmental harms of war.

litekyan.opa@gmail.com

Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Topics: Pentagon spending; U.S. military strategy; nuclear weapons policy and the nuclear weapons lobby; state of the arms industry and the military-industrial complex; critique of rhetoric and political positions of Silicon Valley weapons tech community, and the dangers of following their ideas about U.S. foreign and military policies; impact of U.S, weapons sales, especially in the Middle East; cost of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and beyond; analysis of the politics and influence efforts of the Big Five weapons contractors.

hartung@quincyinst.org, 917-923-3202

Executive Director, War Prevention Initiative of Jubitz Family Foundation

Topics: Militarism, Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflicts Without Violence, Peace and Conflict Research

patrick@jubitz.org

Professor of History/Director, Nuclear Studies Institute, American University; Co-author (with Oliver Stone) The Untold History of the United States--12-part documentary film series and books

Topics: History of the American Empire; Current Global Crises; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Nuclear History

pkuznick@aol.com, (301) 580-4260, www.american.edu/cas/faculty/kuznick

Independent consultant

Topics: Climate and militarism, racial justice, corporate accountability

mlegendre.consulting@gmail.com

Independent consultant

Topics: Hybrid war, imperialism, the links between the development agenda and militarism, community organizing and divestment campaigns

fnmadvising@gmail.com

President, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund

Topics: Nuclear Disarmament, Pentagon spending, US wars, US and global weapons trade, Yemen, Korea, Israel-Palestine, NATO, US-Russia and US-China relations, Nonviolence, Building the Peace and Justice Movement, Common Security, Human Security

kmartin@peaceaction.org, 301.537.8244

Cofounder, Security Policy Reform Institute and Writer, Polygraph newsletter

Topics: Military spending, budget, human security, police militarization, federal authorizations and appropriations, lobbying

stephen [at] securityreform [dot] org ; www.securityreform.org

Author, activist, journalist, and radio host. Executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include NATO What You Need to Know with Medea Benjamin. He hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and U.S. Peace Prize recipient. Longer bio and photos and videos here.

david@davidswanson.org

Political anthropologist and author of the books The United States of War, Base Nation, and Island of Shame. Professor of Anthropology, American University (2006-2024)

Topics: Military Industrial Complex, dismantling the MIC, US wars and foreign policy, military bases, peace building, Diego Garcia and the Chagossians, displacement and refugees

davidsvine@gmail.com, 1-510-764-8895, davidvine.net

Retired Senior Professorial Lecturer, The American University, Washington DC

Topics: Civil Resistance to Totalitarianism: Strategies and Movements around the World, Alternatives to War & Violence

703-522-3069