Join the International Youth Dialogue for Nuclear Disarmament, October 26th-27th 2009. The Dialogue will link students, youth, professionals and experts in Philadelphia, Mexico City, Moscow, and Santa Barbara via live video conference.
The Dialogue will facilitate collaboration and idea sharing among disarmament activists and focus on building a comprehensive campaign for a world free of nuclear weapons and the threats they pose.
Dr. Hans Blix, President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, and Alyn Ware of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament will keynote along with student leaders from International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Ban All Nukes Generation USA, and more.
Registration for the Philadelphia Venue and Mexico City Venue is now available.
Registration is coming soon for the Moscow venue, to be held at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations and the Santa Barbara venue, through the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
The Dialogue is organized by the Project for Nuclear Awareness and Ban All Nukes Generation USA, with technology provided by Global Education Motivators. For a complete list of co-sponsors, see the registration page.
For questions regarding the Dialogue please contact Emily, Dialogue Coordinator at emily.pna@gmail.com, or 011+ 215 546 3030.
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THANKS BUNCHES,
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THANKS BUNCHES,
RuthAnn
Friday, November 7, 2008
2009 Youth Conference Proposal
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DIALOGUE 2009
STUDENTS FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE WORLD NETWORK
WEB CONFERENCE
“Coordinating International Youth Disarmament Action for a Nuclear Weapons Convention”
By: Emily Gleason
Summary of Purpose
This conference will facilitate dialogue, collaboration, and strategy formation on the international level between youth who want to take action on nuclear disarmament, and experts who have experience in the field. Special emphasis will be on identifying steps to grow the Students for a Nuclear Weapons Free World network as a vehicle for global youth action on nuclear disarmament in coordination with other civil society groups.
The content of the conference will address the need for an International Nuclear Weapons Convention, and the importance of youth leadership and education as two key factors in achieving a nuclear weapons free world. The Conference format will reflect student leadership and give students an active voice.
Conference Outline
The international conference would take place over a two day time span, with two separate working sessions of three hours, each with a 15 minute break. The conference would be held through live video, using a Polycom VSX 700 system. There would be up to six venues, with a conference moderator located at the U.S. venue. Each venue will have the option to meet before and/or after the international web conference to discuss local actions and implications.
Day One (US Eastern Standard Time, EST) – Joint Session, All Venues
11:00 -11:15 am “Opening address and welcome”
11:15 am -12:15 pm “Where are we now, and where do we want to be?” (Speakers)
12:15- 12:45 pm “Challenges” (Speakers)
12:45-1:00 pm Coffee/snack break
1:00-2:00 pm Strategies for Change – All Venues
The format may be flexible, with Day One speakers at one or several venues, as the SNWFW may decide.
Day Two
11:00-11:30 am Welcome back, brief recap
11:30-12:00 noon Alyn Ware: “Building an International Nuclear Weapons Convention”
12:00-12:15 pm Coffee/snack break
12:15-1:30 pm Action Plan: Establish how to carry out strategies
1:30-2:30 pm Conclusions, closing
*Day Two would be followed by a local discussion session on Action Plans with possible dinner or lunch. Timing and details can be decided by each venue.
Proposed Venue Locations and Relative Opening Times
9am Mexico City
11am Philadelphia or NYC
10am Bogota, Columbia
4pm Lagos, Nigeria
4pm Heidelberg, Germany
6pm Moscow or St. Petersburg, Russia
Student Leadership
Each venue will have volunteer student leader, who takes official notes on the proceedings, and speaks on behalf of the people represented in their venue. This student leader would preferably be a SNWFW group member. The student/youth leaders will lead the discussions of “Strategies for Change” on the first day, and also lead the break out “Action Plan” session on the second day. This conference would facilitate student leadership and organization, and give youth an equal voice in the proceedings. Student speakers will offer a point of peer identification for youth participants, and increase the potential for growing the SNWFW global youth network.
Venues
Colleges or high schools, preferably one which “point” student attends. Venues must have Polycom compatibility. Each venue could have between 150-300 people, depending on space limitations.
Transportation
Countries not represented by the physical venues can fly from their location to the closest venue location, or watch via live or recorded webcast. There is also a possibility to receive email questions from those watching live via internet webcast who are unable to attend a physical venue. A chat forum on Skype could also be created in coordination with the live stream of the conference on the internet.
Funding Resources
World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA)
The Project Nuclear Awareness (PNA)
Venues/Host Countries
Individual Donations
Rotary/ Lions/ Kiwanis Clubs and other private entities
Foundation grants through PNA, WFUNA
Possible Speakers
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon
WFUNA Secretary General, Pera Wells
Alyn Ware, IALANA, and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND)
Key activists and scholars
NGOs and non-profits for nuclear disarmament
Hiroshima survivors
Press/Media Coverage and Outreach
Press coverage would be maximized by the number of host countries. Six geographically spaced venues and the possibility of online web streaming of the conference proceedings will allow for thousands of people to tune in, learn and get involved.
A precedent for this was set on October 22, 2008, when Dr. Hans Blix and other experts, as well as a SNWFW speaker, spoke to over three hundred people live at three venues, but thousands more via live Web-cast.
Media blanketing will also be facilitated by PNA’s contribution of utilizing access to ReThink Media. This U.S.-based, world-wide-in-scope service will permit the International Youth Dialogue 2009 to reach everyone from Al Arabiya News, to press from Antwerp to Angola to Australia, from New York to London, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Beijing. It goes without saying that the greater the media coverage, the more successful we shall be in building this movement on a truly global basis. ReThink Media exists as a service to permit U.S. non-profit NGO’s and their allies to access otherwise prohibitively expensive NewsWire, syndicated, print, and international television media. PNA would agree to contribute its pre-paid access to ReThink Media for the purpose of conference publicity. In addition, WFUNA, Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World, and other supporters have extensive media contacts who could possibly be tapped for coverage.
Challenges
1. Securing venues, speakers, and participants
2. Technology
3. Translation
To meet these challenges, a Conference Organizing Group should be established promptly. This should include 5-7 members of the SNWFW founding group—one from each venue—and a representative of each of the co-sponsoring organizations, such as WFUNA, PNA, and PNND who can each dedicate about a day per week of work on this conference.
STUDENTS FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE WORLD NETWORK
WEB CONFERENCE
“Coordinating International Youth Disarmament Action for a Nuclear Weapons Convention”
By: Emily Gleason
Summary of Purpose
This conference will facilitate dialogue, collaboration, and strategy formation on the international level between youth who want to take action on nuclear disarmament, and experts who have experience in the field. Special emphasis will be on identifying steps to grow the Students for a Nuclear Weapons Free World network as a vehicle for global youth action on nuclear disarmament in coordination with other civil society groups.
The content of the conference will address the need for an International Nuclear Weapons Convention, and the importance of youth leadership and education as two key factors in achieving a nuclear weapons free world. The Conference format will reflect student leadership and give students an active voice.
Conference Outline
The international conference would take place over a two day time span, with two separate working sessions of three hours, each with a 15 minute break. The conference would be held through live video, using a Polycom VSX 700 system. There would be up to six venues, with a conference moderator located at the U.S. venue. Each venue will have the option to meet before and/or after the international web conference to discuss local actions and implications.
Day One (US Eastern Standard Time, EST) – Joint Session, All Venues
11:00 -11:15 am “Opening address and welcome”
11:15 am -12:15 pm “Where are we now, and where do we want to be?” (Speakers)
12:15- 12:45 pm “Challenges” (Speakers)
12:45-1:00 pm Coffee/snack break
1:00-2:00 pm Strategies for Change – All Venues
The format may be flexible, with Day One speakers at one or several venues, as the SNWFW may decide.
Day Two
11:00-11:30 am Welcome back, brief recap
11:30-12:00 noon Alyn Ware: “Building an International Nuclear Weapons Convention”
12:00-12:15 pm Coffee/snack break
12:15-1:30 pm Action Plan: Establish how to carry out strategies
1:30-2:30 pm Conclusions, closing
*Day Two would be followed by a local discussion session on Action Plans with possible dinner or lunch. Timing and details can be decided by each venue.
Proposed Venue Locations and Relative Opening Times
9am Mexico City
11am Philadelphia or NYC
10am Bogota, Columbia
4pm Lagos, Nigeria
4pm Heidelberg, Germany
6pm Moscow or St. Petersburg, Russia
Student Leadership
Each venue will have volunteer student leader, who takes official notes on the proceedings, and speaks on behalf of the people represented in their venue. This student leader would preferably be a SNWFW group member. The student/youth leaders will lead the discussions of “Strategies for Change” on the first day, and also lead the break out “Action Plan” session on the second day. This conference would facilitate student leadership and organization, and give youth an equal voice in the proceedings. Student speakers will offer a point of peer identification for youth participants, and increase the potential for growing the SNWFW global youth network.
Venues
Colleges or high schools, preferably one which “point” student attends. Venues must have Polycom compatibility. Each venue could have between 150-300 people, depending on space limitations.
Transportation
Countries not represented by the physical venues can fly from their location to the closest venue location, or watch via live or recorded webcast. There is also a possibility to receive email questions from those watching live via internet webcast who are unable to attend a physical venue. A chat forum on Skype could also be created in coordination with the live stream of the conference on the internet.
Funding Resources
World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA)
The Project Nuclear Awareness (PNA)
Venues/Host Countries
Individual Donations
Rotary/ Lions/ Kiwanis Clubs and other private entities
Foundation grants through PNA, WFUNA
Possible Speakers
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon
WFUNA Secretary General, Pera Wells
Alyn Ware, IALANA, and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND)
Key activists and scholars
NGOs and non-profits for nuclear disarmament
Hiroshima survivors
Press/Media Coverage and Outreach
Press coverage would be maximized by the number of host countries. Six geographically spaced venues and the possibility of online web streaming of the conference proceedings will allow for thousands of people to tune in, learn and get involved.
A precedent for this was set on October 22, 2008, when Dr. Hans Blix and other experts, as well as a SNWFW speaker, spoke to over three hundred people live at three venues, but thousands more via live Web-cast.
Media blanketing will also be facilitated by PNA’s contribution of utilizing access to ReThink Media. This U.S.-based, world-wide-in-scope service will permit the International Youth Dialogue 2009 to reach everyone from Al Arabiya News, to press from Antwerp to Angola to Australia, from New York to London, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Beijing. It goes without saying that the greater the media coverage, the more successful we shall be in building this movement on a truly global basis. ReThink Media exists as a service to permit U.S. non-profit NGO’s and their allies to access otherwise prohibitively expensive NewsWire, syndicated, print, and international television media. PNA would agree to contribute its pre-paid access to ReThink Media for the purpose of conference publicity. In addition, WFUNA, Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World, and other supporters have extensive media contacts who could possibly be tapped for coverage.
Challenges
1. Securing venues, speakers, and participants
2. Technology
3. Translation
To meet these challenges, a Conference Organizing Group should be established promptly. This should include 5-7 members of the SNWFW founding group—one from each venue—and a representative of each of the co-sponsoring organizations, such as WFUNA, PNA, and PNND who can each dedicate about a day per week of work on this conference.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Caring for The People of The Blog
Dear Students for Nuclear a Weapons Free World,
I am hoping this blog is reaching students desiring to bring hope for a safe world and a saner future. I would like to help. My name is RuthAnn Purchase and I am working to find more funding for internships, more support for student activism in general, and more efficient and effective methods of social change.
I believe we need to publicize the success stories of student activists in order to recruit more students into this movement! Negative information recruits angry people who are not necessarily the most diplomatic, or convincing. Fear based motivational techniques promote denial at best, or "bury-my-head-in-the-sand" at worst.
Can we overcome these two obvious results of the most favored strategies of activists in the past?
PLEASE, GIVE ME YOUR INPUT:
What is most effective method for getting people to move through denial,
getting heads out of the sand,
and building courage for action?
I would venture to say:
THE ARTS?
MORE HUMOR?
And definitely MORE SUCCESS STORIES!
That is why I love the new "Two Nukes Hit the Streets" video.
It does the first two upright. Now it begs for a trailer with the story about a real human being who got funded to make that video! Tell how they used it and how they tracked the results and how many people have watched it! That inspires more of the same!
Thus my invitation to check out Net2, a social networking group that supports the use of new technology "mashing" for non-profits.
One theory for effectiveness that I have adopted is as follows:
Balance "in-your-face" harsh reality with courage building techniques!
I.e.: I watch many Americans influenced by real facts "bury their heads" in the electronic "sand," or in their drug of choice, or sport of their choice.
If we build courage and give specific, measurable, out-come focused actions to jump into EVERY TIME we present, we build momentum and we retain energy for taking those first baby steps toward action. E'vuala! A new activist is born!
If we are asking people to do more than write a letter, but we must empower them to do more. In order to promote intentional, effective activism, we cannot support "the passing fancy" activist or the "quick fix for guilt trips" campaign. We must help people adopt this cause as a moral obligation, as a life long passion. And we must together build our courage to face hard questions in hard times. We might even adopt trauma transformation techniques as we present so that everyone we work with is taking good care of their stress levels.
Please, consider helping me create a simple, interactive workshop & social networking tool that empowers the overwhelmed, encourages the ashamed, and unites the befuddled.
I have theories, but you, students, are are the ground and in the trenches, as it were.
You understand new lingo and new technology that is reaching far more than any academic presentation will ever reach. And you have energy for the future. So write to me. Give me your responses to this blog. Let's do this together.
May our synergy clear a path toward more practical action and quicker results,
For heaven & earth's sake,
RuthAnn Purchase,
Greenbridge CDC
PS
I work in the Philadelphia region, am a member of the UN Working Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and a member of Soka Gakkai Int'l.
I hope the students in this network sign off
with a bit of detail about themselves so that we can get to know who is listening,
and who is writing, and where they are working geographically.
(You too, Simon!)
I am hoping this blog is reaching students desiring to bring hope for a safe world and a saner future. I would like to help. My name is RuthAnn Purchase and I am working to find more funding for internships, more support for student activism in general, and more efficient and effective methods of social change.
I believe we need to publicize the success stories of student activists in order to recruit more students into this movement! Negative information recruits angry people who are not necessarily the most diplomatic, or convincing. Fear based motivational techniques promote denial at best, or "bury-my-head-in-the-sand" at worst.
Can we overcome these two obvious results of the most favored strategies of activists in the past?
PLEASE, GIVE ME YOUR INPUT:
What is most effective method for getting people to move through denial,
getting heads out of the sand,
and building courage for action?
I would venture to say:
THE ARTS?
MORE HUMOR?
And definitely MORE SUCCESS STORIES!
That is why I love the new "Two Nukes Hit the Streets" video.
It does the first two upright. Now it begs for a trailer with the story about a real human being who got funded to make that video! Tell how they used it and how they tracked the results and how many people have watched it! That inspires more of the same!
Thus my invitation to check out Net2, a social networking group that supports the use of new technology "mashing" for non-profits.
One theory for effectiveness that I have adopted is as follows:
Balance "in-your-face" harsh reality with courage building techniques!
I.e.: I watch many Americans influenced by real facts "bury their heads" in the electronic "sand," or in their drug of choice, or sport of their choice.
If we build courage and give specific, measurable, out-come focused actions to jump into EVERY TIME we present, we build momentum and we retain energy for taking those first baby steps toward action. E'vuala! A new activist is born!
If we are asking people to do more than write a letter, but we must empower them to do more. In order to promote intentional, effective activism, we cannot support "the passing fancy" activist or the "quick fix for guilt trips" campaign. We must help people adopt this cause as a moral obligation, as a life long passion. And we must together build our courage to face hard questions in hard times. We might even adopt trauma transformation techniques as we present so that everyone we work with is taking good care of their stress levels.
Please, consider helping me create a simple, interactive workshop & social networking tool that empowers the overwhelmed, encourages the ashamed, and unites the befuddled.
I have theories, but you, students, are are the ground and in the trenches, as it were.
You understand new lingo and new technology that is reaching far more than any academic presentation will ever reach. And you have energy for the future. So write to me. Give me your responses to this blog. Let's do this together.
May our synergy clear a path toward more practical action and quicker results,
For heaven & earth's sake,
RuthAnn Purchase,
Greenbridge CDC
PS
I work in the Philadelphia region, am a member of the UN Working Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and a member of Soka Gakkai Int'l.
I hope the students in this network sign off
with a bit of detail about themselves so that we can get to know who is listening,
and who is writing, and where they are working geographically.
(You too, Simon!)
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