Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence

Webinar: 8pm AEST, Thursday 7 August 2025

In the week the world marks 80 years since nuclear weapons were unleashed on the world with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Green Institute’s Missing Peace series continues with a webinar asking “where to for nuclear disarmament in a world of Trump and Netanyahu?”

Our superb panel for the conversation will be Gem Romuld, The Australian Director of the Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Dr Emma Shortis, Director of the Australia Institute’s International & Security Affairs Program, and Senator David Shoebridge, the Australian Greens’ Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Peace & Nuclear Disarmament.

ICAN achieved something many thought was impossible, driving the negotiation, agreement, signing and ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which came into force in 2021, binding its signatories and providing powerful normative pressure on the nuclear states and their allies.

Since then, with the re-election of Donald Trump, geopolitical certainties and assumptions have melted into air. Benjamin Netanyahu has further trashed any semblance of a global order, with Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Israel and America together attempted to destroy Iran’s nuclear program despite Israel being known to possess nuclear weapons and refusing to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Meanwhile, Australia is preparing to get even more deeply embroiled through the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal.

In a world of climate crisis, economic crisis and political crisis, as so-called leaders around the world rush to increase military spending for fear of wars, thus making wars ever more likely, what is the future for nuclear disarmament? Where do we find inspiration? What are the pressure points? How are we to act?

Webinar: 8pm AEST, Thursday 7 August 2025

Register below to join in the discussion. This webinar is the sixth in a series we’ve been hosting as part of our project The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence. We look forward to having you along!

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