Programme for the Evening:
Welcome from the City of Stavanger by Deputy Mayor Henrik Halleland
Lecture “Cities Appeal; Local Influence on International Nuclear Weapons Policy” by Daniel Gudbrandsen Farsjø, Advisor at ICAN Norway
Music and song by Leonore Mangersnes Lindboe and Unnur Gigja Sigurdardottir from the “Peace for Good” project at Stavanger Cathedral School
Presentation of "Messages from the Silent Witness" by Ekuko Naka and Kevin Koui Naka Meeg
Light refreshments and mingling
Presentation of "No to Nuclear Weapons South Rogaland" by Chairman John Brigt Hope
Closing remarks by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
This Year's Speakers:
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of organisations worldwide promoting the UN's nuclear weapons ban.
Ekuko Naka is a Japanese landscape architect and partner at Green Legacy Hiroshima. Kevin Koui Naka Meeg is a student at St. Olav Upper Secondary School and a volunteer at ANT-Hiroshima. Together with experts from various fields and Hibakujumoku, they have developed a multidisciplinary project involving trees that survived the atomic bomb.
This Year's Peace Prize Winner:
The Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement founded by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in 1945, is being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts towards a nuclear-weapon-free world and for its testimony on why such weapons must never be used again.
The event is free and open to all.
Organiser: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Stavanger Chapter