On June 21, 2021, Christine Ahn spoke for Cynthia Lazaroff’s Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy in Mentor Session Seven. She spoke on the topic of pursuing peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.
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Opening Blessing from Kumu Hula Puna Dawson, a Hawaiin Cultural Practitioner
Christine Ahn – Founder and Executive Director, Women Cross DMZ, US Peace Prize Winner, 2020
Jessica Lee – Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Dr. Kalamaoka’aina Niheu – Co-founder of the Mauna Medic Healers Hui and the Standing Rock Medic Healer Council
On June 15, 2021, the Canadian launch of the Korea Peace Now report “Path to Peace: The Case for a Peace Agreement to End the Korean War” was co-hosted by WPSN-C and Korea Peace Now!
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On June 9, Christine Ahn, Joe Cirincione, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and Cynthia Lazaroff discussed Biden’s foreign policy. These experts sounded the alarm on the militarization of US foreign policy, the human and financial costs, the Biden administration’s proposed $752.9 billion defense budget – an increase from the Trump years – along with the administration’s commitment to proceed with the estimated $1.5 trillion modernization of America’s nuclear arsenal over the next 15 years, which many experts believe will actually increase the risk of a nuclear confrontation.
On May 27, 2021, at 2pm KT, the South Korean National Unification Advisory Council held the South Korean Women’s Leaders Conference for Peace.
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<2021 DMZ Forum Plenary Session III> Hosted by Gyeonggi-do Province and the Northeast Asia Peace and Economy Association, the 2021 DMZ Forum @dmzforum2021 was held from May 21 to 22. The KWMP held a plenary session III, “From Grassroots to International Solidarity, Women’s Peacebuilding Initiatives and Recommendations” to examine the practices and strategies for a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.
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