The Berlin Congress (Disarm! for a Climate of Peace, Oct. 2016) was the largest IPB gathering since the Barcelona Forum 2004. Around 1000 attended…This short video (3 min) was produced at the request of the organisers by the video team of UNI Global Union, one of our main partners. For those who attended the Congress, it will remind you of some great times spent together with colleagues from across the world; for those who did not, it will convey a vivid impression of what the event was all about. Take a look at the video HERE and make sure to share it with your friends!
The Coalition for Constitution Implementation Kenya (CCI-Kenya) a member organisation of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) successfully convened a Peace and Security Convening during the just-concluded Zinduka Festival that took place at Jicca Hotel in Ntinda Town, Kampala, Uganda. The Zinduka Festival is an annual regional festival that brings together people from across the East African Countries to interact, celebrate their diversity and engage with the integration process. It is a festival that offers the people a unique opportunity to contribute to the East African integration process through art and culture, policy dialogue and movement building.
The European Union has unveiled one of its biggest-ever defense research plans in a bid to reverse billions of euros in cuts. 
On 11 November 2016, as part of the Geneva Peace Week, IPB held a Round Table discussion in Geneva entitled: “Moving the Military Money: to climate, development, humanitarian action and peacemaking”. At this meeting 4 presentations were made on how to secure additional funding for vital social programmes by reducing the financial and intellectual resources devoted to the military system. By clicking on the links below, you can access some very interesting material from the Round Table discussion, so make sure to take a look!
On September 6, 2016, during the closure of the Defence Summer University in Paris, army generals and policymakers (including the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence) called for a quick and significant augmentation of the annual military budget from 31.6 billion in 2016 to 41 billion in 2020 (31% increase). The idea is to double nuclear weapons expenditures in order to renew the nuclear submarine fleet.