You are invited to attend our VIRTUAL AGM on Saturday November 7th, 2020!
Bring local news and help us plan our next year of peace advocacy. We’ll be delivering our board and financial reports, holding board elections, discussing current peace projects and more!
We’d love to have you with us! Please reply to info@vowpeace.org and confirm your attendance.
If you cannot attend, you can also name a proxy but that person must be a VOW member. We also have a board vacancy, if you would like to be considered for the board please send a letter of interest to Janis Alton (janis.alton@outlook.com) by November 2nd.
We are also so excited to offer a free screening of The Man That Saved The World with special guests for a discussion on how to prevent nuclear war and move towards a nuclear-weapons-free world with Alyn Ware and Vanda Prošková.
A little more about Alyn Ware,
- Peace Foundation(New Zealand), International Representative;
- Basel Peace Office(Switzerland), Director;
- Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Global Coordinator;
- Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy(USA), Consultant and former Executive Director;
- International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (Germany), Consultant and Board Member
- World Future Council (Germany), Council Member and Co-Chair of the Commission on Peace and Disarmament;
- United Nations Association of New Zealand, Special Officer for International Peace and Security;
- Abolition 2000, Co-founder and Coordinating Committee Member;
- UNFOLD ZERO, Co-founder;
- Move the Nuclear Weapons Money, Co-founder;
- World Court Project on Nuclear Weapons and International Law, UN Coordinator;
- Cool Schools Peer Mediation Program (New Zealand), Co-founder;
- Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace (New Zealand), International Representative;
- International Peace Bureau (Germany), Life Member and Former Vice-President.
A little more about Vanda
- Vice-Chair, PragueVision Institute for Sustainable Security
- Director, PNND Program on Gender, Peace and Security
- Members’ Coordinator, Abolition 2000 Youth Network
- Graduate student, LL.M. in International Law, Kent University – Brussels School of International Studies
Watch the trailer here! https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trailer-the-man-who-saved-the-world/2017/09/18/b3b7598a-9ca3-11e7-b2a7-bc70b6f98089_video.html
Hope to see you there!