Nuclear Ice Age?
How to Deal with Nuclear Threats in Europe?
Mittwoch, 19.06.2024
| 13:45 Uhr |
Arrival and Check-in |
| 14:00 Uhr |
Words of Welcome Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum |
| 14:15 Uhr |
KICK OFF TALK | Nuclear Ice Age: What Are the Key Nuclear Challenges and Threats of Our Time? Gaukhar MUKHATZHANOVA, Director of the International Organizations and Non-Proliferation Program, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP), Vienna |
| 15:15 Uhr |
Coffee & Cake |
| 15:45 Uhr |
PANEL DISCUSSION | Not Losing Sight of a Nuclear-Weapons Free World: The TPNW, Different Disarmament Approaches and Avenues to Bridge the Gap between them Juliane HAUSCHULZ, Board Member, ICAN Germany (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) and IPPNW Germany (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War), Berlin Alexander KMENTT, Ambassador and Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Department of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna Francisca Elizabeth MÉNDEZ ESCOBAR, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations in Geneva |
| 17:15 Uhr |
Coffee & Tea |
| 17:30 Uhr |
IMPULSE TALK | Blockades and Polarization all the Way Down? What Future for Multilateralism in the Field of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation? Susanne RIEGRAF, Deputy Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control, Foreign Ministry, Berlin |
| 18:30 Uhr |
Dinner |
| 19:30 Uhr |
PANEL DISCUSSION | A Question of Beliefs? On the Ethics of Nuclear Deterrence Richard LENNANE, Senior Policy Advisor, Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit, Legal Division, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva Michal SMETANA, Director of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), Head Researcher at the Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS) and Associate Professor of International Studies at Charles University, Prague |
| 21:00 Uhr |
Informal Get Together at the Gallery |
Donnerstag, 20.06.2024
| 08:30 Uhr |
Breakfast |
| 09:30 Uhr |
IMPULSE TALK | How to Handle “Atomic Angst” and Improve “Nuclear Literacy” in Public Discourse? Benoît PELOPIDAS, Head, Nuclear Knowledges Program and Chair of Excellence in Security Studies at CERI (Sciences Po), Paris Frank SAUER, Head of Research, Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight, Bundeswehr University, Munich |
| 10:45 Uhr |
Coffee & Tea |
| 11:00 Uhr |
PANEL DISCUSSION | Arms Control is Dead? – Long Live Nuclear Risk Reduction? Veronika BEDENKO, Senior Analyst, Open Nuclear Network, One Earth Future, Vienna Oliver MEIER, Director, Policy and Research, European Leadership Network, London/Berlin Jingdong YUAN, Director, China and Asia Security Programme, SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Solna |
| 12:30 Uhr |
Lunch |
| 13:30 Uhr |
Optional Sightseeing Tour to the Monastery Loccum (founded 1163) |
| 15:00 Uhr |
Coffee & Cake |
| 15:30 Uhr |
PANEL DISCUSSION | Nuclear Deterrence in Europe: How Will Strategic Stability on the Continent Look like in the Years to Come? Dominik P. JANKOWSKI, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Delegation of Poland to NATO, Brussels Polina SINOVETS, Head of the Odessa Center for Non-Proliferation (OdCNP) and Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Odessa Oliver THRÄNERT, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin |
| 17:00 Uhr |
WOOD WALK | Thematic Picnic Groups (with light Picnic) - Group 1 – Arms Control and Nuclear Risk Reduction - Group 2 – Disarmament - Group 3 – Deterrence - Group 4 – open Facilitators: Lucian BUMEDER, Fellow “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies Research Group, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, (IFSH), Hamburg Fabia SCHREIBER, Former Policy Officer in the Division of Nuclear Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at the German Federal Foreign Office and Member of the Young Nuclear Network, Berlin Fabian UNRUH, Doctoral Researcher, Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research (CNTR), Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Frankfurt Sophia WELLEK, Communications and Engagement Coordinator, IISS–Europe and Member of YATA Germany, Berlin |
| 18:30 Uhr |
EVENING TALK - Iran and its Nuclear Program – Beyond the Point of No Return? Michael SCHMIDMAYR, IAEA and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Unit, German Foreign Office, Berlin Azadeh ZAMIRIAD, Deputy Head of Africa & Middle East Research Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin |
| 19:30 Uhr |
BBQ & Informal Come Together |
Freitag, 21.06.2024
| 08:30 Uhr |
Breakfast |
| 09:30 Uhr |
Presenting and Discussing the Findings of the Wood Walk / Picnic Groups |
| 10:30 Uhr |
Coffee & Tea Break |
| 10:45 Uhr |
PANEL DISCUSSION - What Future Trajectory for Nuclear Sharing States? Klaus DE RIJK, Strategic Advisor on Arms Control and Strategic Stability, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague Sigurd SCHELSTRAETE, Director Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brussels Ralf STEGNER, Member of Parliament (Social Democrats/SPD), Speaker, Sub-Committee on Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation, German Bundestag, Berlin/Limburg |
| 12:20 Uhr |
Wrap-Up & Words of Farwell Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum |
| 12:30 Uhr |
Goodbye Lunch |
| 12:50 Uhr |
Bus Shuttle Arriving Wunstorf Station at approx. 01:30 pm |