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Nuclear Ice Age?

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