Calendar of side events for nuclear weapon ban treaty negotiations
Calendar last updated on 3 July 2017
Please email info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org to book Conference Room B for your side event, or to inform us of an event being held in a different room.
Thursday, 15 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 13:15-14:30 | Verification of the Ban Treaty: Articles 3, 4 and 5 and Beyond | CR B | Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University |
Friday, 16 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 13:15-16:30 | The nuclear ban and the problem of hosting nuclear weapons belonging to other nuclear states | CR B | Pugwash Conferences |
| 16:45-18:00 | Book launch: Disarming the Nuclear Argument: the truth about nuclear weapons | CR B | FWCC |
Saturday, 17 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 12:00-16:00 | Women's March to Ban the Bomb | Bryant Park to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza | WILPF |
Sunday, 18 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 13:00-18:00 | One struggle, many fronts: No nukes, no walls, no warming | Brooklyn Friends Meeting House | Peace and Planet |
Monday, 19 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 10:00-12:30 | Youth Actions for Nuclear Abolition Day and the 2018 UN Conference | CR B | Abolition 2000 Youth Working Group |
| 13:15-14:30 | Global Call of Hibakusha – The Humanitarian Imperative to Prohibit and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons | CR E | Peace Boat and the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the United Nations |
| 13:15-14:30 | Articles 2-5 | CR 1 | President of the conference |
| 15:00-18:00 | Congressional education | CR B | Physicians for Social Responsibility |
Tuesday, 20 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 13:15-14:30 | Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts | CR 1 | Permanent Mission of Austria, Federation of American Scientists, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Physicians for Social Responsibility New York, Western North Carolina Physicians for Social Responsibility |
| 13:15-14:30 | Prohibiting nuclear weapons: democractic strategies to take forward and implement the nuclear ban in nuclear-armed and umbrella states | CR B | Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy |
| 18:00-20:00 | Youth Reception for Nuclear Abolition | All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave | Amplify, UFPJ, Abolition 2000, IPB, Peace & Planet and AFSC |
Wednesday, 21 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 11:00-12:30 | Examples of national implementation measures | CR B | PNND and World Future Council |
| 13:15-14:30 | Positive obligations | CR B | Article 36 |
| 13:15-14:30 | The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink | CR 1 | Permanent Mission of Austria, Federation of American Scientists, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Physicians for Social Responsibility New York, Western North Carolina Physicians for Social Responsibility |
Thursday, 22 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 10:00-13:00 | Lessons from the Chemical and Biological weapons Conventions | CR B | IPB |
| 13:15-14:30 | Scotland: a disarming view of the ban treaty | CR B | Scottish CND |
| 13:15-14:30 | Nuts and bolts of the ban | CR 1 | UNIDIR |
| 15:00-17:00 | Threat and Deterrence | CR B | IALANA |
Friday, 23 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 10:00-12:00 | Children and nuclear disarmament | CR B | PeaceJam Foundation |
| 13:15-14:30 | Gender and nuclear weapons | CR B | WILPF, NIRS, ICAN |
Monday, 26 June - HOLIDAY
Tuesday, 27 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 10:00-11:30 | More Buzz for the Buck: Messaging, Framing, and Brainstorming on deeper strategies for raising consciousness and challenging rationales for nukes | CR B | Transcend International, Psychologists for Social Responsibility |
| 13:15-14:30 | Humanitarian imapct of nuclear weapons | CR B | IPPNW |
Wednesday, 28 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 10:00-12:00 | The Nuclear Mystique, slide show, Mega Mission Creep - A Psycho-Historical Evolution of Towards Nuclear Fundamentalism, and tool for consciousness raising | CR B | Transcend International, Psychologists for Social Responsibility |
| 13:15-14:30 | What are the difficulties to reach an agreement on the treaty and how to overcome them | CR B | International Peace Bureau |
| 16:00-17:30 | Interfaith dialogue and actions for nuclear disarmament | CR B | Abolition 2000 Interfaith Working Group |
Thursday, 29 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 11:00-12:30 | The Ban and the 2018 UN High Level Conference | CR 1 | PNND, Unfold Zero, Basel Peace Office |
| 13:15-14:30 | Implications of implementation: forbidding financing of prohibited acts | CR 1 | PAX |
| 15:00-16:30 | Role playing: Answering all arguments | CR 1 | Veterans for Peace |
| 18:15 | Film Screening and Discussion: The Nuns, the Priests and the Bomb | Trusteeship Council Chamber | Pax Christi International, NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security,
The Committee of Religious NGOs, Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns,
Roundtable Association of Catholic Diocesan Social Action Directors |
Friday, 30 June
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 13:15-14:30 | Is the Draft up to the Task? Ethical, Humanitarian and Faith-based Assessments | CR 1 | Pax Christi International and Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns |
Monday, 3 July
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 10:00 | Role playing: Answering all arguments | CR 1 | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation |
| 13:15-14:30 | Rising nuclear risks | CR 1 | People for Nuclear Disarmament |
Tuesday, 4 July - HOLIDAY
Wednesday, 5 July
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 13:15-14:30 | How to use the Ban Treaty to build a momentum toward the elimination of nuclear weapons | CR B | International Peace Bureau |
Thursday, 6 July
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 13:15-14:30 | Exploring the Psychological Dimensions of Nuclear Weapons | CR B | Psychologists for Social Responsibility |
Friday, 7 July
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 08:30 | ICAN campaign action |
Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street (Top of the stairs) |
ICAN |
| 09:00-09:45 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
Monday, 27 March
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-12:00 | SPACE RESERVED | CR B | ICAN |
| 12:00-13:00 | Demonstrate at the UN to outlaw nuclear weapons | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | NYC War Resisters League, Brooklyn For Peace, World Can't Wait, NYC Metro Raging Grannies, Pax Christi Metro New York, NYC Catholic Worker |
| 13:15-14:30 | Banking on a ban: considering the impacts of the prohibition | CR B | PAX and Future of Life Institute |
| 13:15-14:30 | 50 years of the Treaty of Tlatelolco: an inspiration to the world | ECOSOC Chamber | The Member States of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and Caribbean (OPANAL) |
| 18:00-19:00 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
Tuesday, 28 March
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-9:50 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 10:00-13:00 | U.S. Nuclear Modernization Under President Trump: Implications for the Ban Treaty Process | CR B | Alliance for Nuclear Accountability |
| 13:15-14:30 | Prohibiting nuclear weapons: Pacific and Southeast Asian perspectives | CR B | IPPNW, ICAN |
| 15:00-18:00 | The UK and the ban treaty | CR B | CND |
| 18:00-19:00 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 19:15-21:00 | Ban the Bomb: Pledge for a Safer World | NYU Global Center, Room: GCASL C95 - Lecture Hall 238 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012 |
BANg, Peace Boat, Hibakusha Stories, PAX |
Wednesday, 29 March
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-9:50 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 10:00-13:00 | How to successfully develop an international coalition toward the elimination of nuclear weapons? | CR B | IPB |
| 13:15-14:30 | The humanitarian initiative: towards a treaty banning nuclear weapons | CR B | Hibakusha Stories |
| 18:00-19:00 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
Thursday, 30 March
| When | What | Where | Who |
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-9:50 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 13:15-14:30 | What content for an efficient ban treaty? | CR B | International Peace Bureau |
| 13:15-14:30 | Positive obligations in a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons | CR F | Article 36 |
| 18:00-19:00 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
Friday, 31 March
| 08:00 | Morning Inter-Faith Vigil | Isaiah Wall, Ralph Bunch Park, First Avenue and 43rd Street | Humanitarian Disarmament Interfaith Working Group |
| 09:00-9:50 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |
| 13:15-14:30 | Looking towards a treaty banning nuclear weapons | CR B | ICAN |
| 18:00-19:00 | ICAN campaigners meeting | CR B | ICAN |