PEAC Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity incorporated in New Jersey. PEAC stands for Peace, Education, Art, Communication, and is built on these four pillars. Education, art, and communication are the broad avenues that lead to peace. Through transformative educational projects, we strive to reach the most marginalized youth and use art and communication activities to help them explore and express.
NPT PrepCom 2018
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland 2018
This youth expedition consisted of 12 individuals age 18-25. The participants were from the U.S, Japan, and the European states. The program ran from 20 April 2018 to 25 April 2018.
Meetings with diplomats
Global Youth Forum 2018
Held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 5-7 December 2018. Attended by a range of New Zealand and International Youth, the Forum featured discussion and the latest updates on global disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation issues.
The Global Youth Forum ran concurrently with an intergovernmental conference on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) for Pacific Island countries, which was hosted by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Youth Forum participants also attended a reception hosted by New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and MFA/MDAC, Rt Hon Winston Peters, and a number of other exciting events.
How You Can Help Ban Nukes
Hibakusha Appeal
Join the Hibakusha Appeal: I vote with the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for a world free of nuclear weapons
We, the Hibakusha, call on all State Governments to conclude a treaty to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. The average age of the Hibakusha now exceeds 80. It is our strong desire to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world in our lifetime so that succeeding generations of people will not see hell on earth every again.
You, your families and relatives, or any other people should not be made Hibakusha again. We believe that your signatures appended to this appeal will add up to the voices of hundreds of millions of people around the world and move international politics. They will finally save the future of our blue planet and all life on it. We earnestly appeal to you to append your signature to this petition.
“So that the people from future generations will not have to experience hell on earth, we want to realize a world free of nuclear weapons while we are still alive.”
Join your voice with those of the Hibakusha to say “Never Again.”
Sign the petition for a new treaty to ban nuclear weapons below.
Hibakusha Earnestly Desire Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
At present, humanity stands at the crossroads of whether to save our blue planet with all living things on it as it is or to go along the road of self-destruction.
The two atomic bombs dropped on August 6th and 9th 1945 by the US forces totally destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an instant and killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of people without discrimination. With corpses charred black, bodies with their skins peeled off and with lines of people tottering in silence, a hell on earth emerged. Those who narrowly survived soon collapsed one after another. For more than 70 years since then, we have struggled to live on, afflicted by the delayed effects and by anxiety about the possible effects of radiation on our children and grandchildren. Never again do we want such tragedies to be repeated.
After 11 years of silence following the A-bomb suffering, Hibakusha assembled in Nagasaki in August 1956 and founded Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A-and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations. There we pledged that we would work to "save humanity from its crisis through the lessons learned from our experiences, while at the same time saving ourselves".
Since then we have continued appealing to the world that "there should never be another Hibakusha." This is the cry of our soul. Wars and conflicts are still going on in the world, and many lives of innocent people are lost. Nuclear weapons are being used to threaten others. There are also moves to develop new nuclear weapons. The destructive power of existing nuclear weapons, which number well over 10 thousand, amounts to that of tens of thousands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined. Nuclear weapons are the "weapons of the devil". They could wipe out the human race and all other creatures. They could destroy the environment and turn the globe into a dead planet.
Human beings have prohibited the use, development, production, and possession of biological and chemical weapons by treaties and protocols. Why do we hesitate to prohibit nuclear weapons, which are far more destructive than these weapons?
We, the Hibakusha, call on all State Governments to conclude a treaty to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. The average age of the Hibakusha now exceeds 80. It is our strong ' desire to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world in our lifetime so that succeeding generations of people will not see hell on earth ever again.
You, your families and relatives, or any other people should not be made Hibakusha again. We believe that your signatures appended to this appeal will add up to the voices of hundreds of millions of people around the world and move international politics. They will finally save the future of our blue planet and all life on it. We earnestly appeal to you to append your signature to this petition.
April 2016
Initial Proposers of the Appeal:
Sunao Tsuboi, Sumiteru Taniguchi and Mikiso Iwasa, Co-Chairpersons, Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations)
Kwak Kwi Hoon, Honorary Chairman, Korean Association of Atomic Bomb Victims
Tsukasa Mukai, President, US Association of Atomic Bomb Victims
Setsuko Thurlow, Hibakusha of Hiroshima, Toronto,Canada
Yasuaki Yamashita, Hibakusha of Nagasaki, Mexico City, Mexico
International Signature Campaign in Support of the Appeal of the Hibakusha for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
NOTE: After the launch of the International Signature Campaign in April 2016, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted on July 7, 2017. This Campaign now calls on all State Governments to join the Treaty and achieve the total elimination of nuclear weapons.
Young Nuclear Disarmament Leaders Program 2019
April 26th - May 3rd 2019
Vision
To counteract the NWS’ strategy, it is imperative for international youth to support the TPNW and challenge the NWS’ arguments by lobbying states and presenting a strong youth statement.
We are aiming to change the narrative on nuclear weapons: one from neo-realism and focused on nuclear deterrence policies to a humanitarian-focused. To ensure that changes will occur and young people’s voices are heard, we are aiming to bring 15-20 students to New York from April 26 to May 3 for both preliminary activities and the first week of the NPT PrepCom
Components
- In early April of 2019, PEAC Institute will organize a series of webinars, featuring leading experts from different civil society groups.
- On April 27, 2019, Orientation for the participants in New York. At the orientation, we will review the schedule and discuss the strategy.
- During the 2019 NPT PrepCom, the participants will be expected to monitor the plenary discussions, deliver the youth presentation, and lobby delegates to support the TPNW. The participants will work in tandem with civil society organizations to increase support for the early entry into force of the TPNW.
Upon completing the program, the participants will receive certificates.
2019 PrepCom
- The 2019 NPT Prepcom will be in New York from April 29 to May 6 2019.
- States will engage in debates on the relationship between the TPNW and the NPT. The majority will contend that the TPNW closes the legal missing gap in the nuclear nonproliferation regime.