First-Hand Observations from COP 27, Russia and Eastern Europe
Tamara Lorincz, PhD candidate and member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-Canada)
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
4:30 PST/7:30 ET
Register Online: Action Network
On Wednesday, December 7th, Tamara will share her insights as an observer delegate at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. She was on the delegation of the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF), which is a member of the Climate Action Network International and the Women Gender Constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. After Egypt, Tamara has gone on a tour of Russia, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Romania to learn more about these countries and to meet people to talk about their perspectives on the war in Ukraine and NATO expansion. She has been invited to speak at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and at a public event in Helsinki. Her tour is motivated by citizen diplomacy, peacebuilding and strategic empathy.
BIO: Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University. She is currently the convenor of the Environment Working Group of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Tamara graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in 2015. She is the recipient of the Rotary International World Peace Fellowship. She is a member of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and a fellow with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute. She is also on the advisory committee of World Beyond War, the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and the No to War, No to NATO Network.
Organized by World Beyond War Canada and co-sponsored by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute (CFPI), the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-Canada)