Vienna Program Reverse The Trend: SAVE OUR PEOPLE, SAVE OUR PLANET

At the Humanitarian Conference, we expect to divide up into teams, tweet the discussions, and take notes. We would like a team to write a blog report for the RTT website. At the end of the day, we want participants to share their perspectives on instagram. Dress Code is Formal Business Attire

Please note, Danielle will meet the group outside the venue and you will go in together. As part of his work as an adviser on the TPNW for Kiribati, Christian will be with H.E. Ambassador Tito of Kiribati.

Draft Agenda

8.30: Registration opens

9:45: Opening Ceremony

Speakers: H.E. Alexander Schallenberg - Federal Minister for Europe and International Affairs of Austria (Video); H.E. Izumi Nakamitsu - UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs; and H.E. Mohamed Elbaradei - Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2005)

10:15: Testimonials of Survivors of Nuclear Weapons Use and Testing

10:45: Session I – What we Know: Key Facts on Humanitarian Consequences and Risks of Nuclear Weapons:

This session will highlight the key findings of the Humanitarian Initiative on short, medium and long-term consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear explosions, the scope of the humanitarian response challenges and the inherent risks of nuclear weapons

Moderator: Amb. Alexander Kmentt - Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe and International Affairs;

Speakers: Dr. Cordula Droege - Chief Legal Officer and Head of the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)„No shelter from the bomb: humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of a nuclear detonation; Dr James Revill - Head of the WMD Programme at United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR); Dr. Patricia Lewis - Research Director, Conflict, Science, and Transformation; Director International Security Programme at Chatham House,“What Close Calls Can Teach Us About Nuclear Weapons Risks;” and Mary Olson -  Senior Radioactive Waste Policy Specialist with Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) (ret.) “Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Girls and Women than to Boys and Men”

11:30: Coffee break

11:45: Session I cont. - Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A on Session I and the importance of the humanitarian and risk perspectives for the nuclear weapons debate

13:00: Buffet lunch

14:30: Session II – Impact of Nuclear Weapons on People and the Planet: new Developments and Findings

This session will highlight selected new findings on the impact of nuclear weapons on humans, climate, food security, the environment, health and communities.

Moderator: Rebecca Jovin – Chief of Office of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs at Vienna;

Speakers: Dr Moritz Kütt – Senior Researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg "There are no Small Nuclear Weapons;" Dr. Michael J. Mills - National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, US, “Impacts of nuclear war on global climate and ozone loss;” Dr. Kim Scherrer - Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway "Regional conflict, global consequences — How nuclear war could disrupt the global food system;" Dr. Sébastien Philippe – Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security and at the Nuclear Knowledges Programm at Sciences-Po, Paris “Reconstructing the radiological impact from past nuclear tests; ” Dr Togzhan Kassenova – Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research, SUNY-Albany “Soviet Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan: The Continued Legacy”

15:15: Moderated Panel discussion and Q&A on session II

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Session III – The Risks of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Deterrence

This session will highlight new developments pertaining to the risk of intentional or inadvertent use of and accidents involving nuclear weapons and their repercussions on nuclear deterrence.

Moderator: Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova – Director International Organizations and Non-Proliferation Program at the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Speakers: Dr. Hans M. Kristensen – Director Nuclear Information Project at Federation of American Scientists “Nuclear Weapons Upheaval: Arsenals and Policies In Flux;” Dr Tytti Erästö - Senior Researcher in the Weapons of as Destruction Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) “New Technologies and the Fragility of Nuclear Deterrence;” Daryl G. Kimball - Executive Director, Arms Control Association „The Nuclear Risk Dimension of the War in Ukraine;“ Eva Lisowski – Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network & Consultant to the Joint Project on Nuclear Weapon Use Risk Reduction "Possible Nuclear Use Case in Northeast Asia: Implications for Reducing Nuclear Risk;" and Dr. Zia Mian – Co-Director of Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security “What we Know, Don’t know, Won’t Know, Can’t Know: Lessons from South Asia on Nuclear Risks as Complex and Incomprehensible”

17: 15 Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A on Session III

18:00 Chair’s Summary and Closing Remarks

18:15: Conference Concludes

June 21st to June 23rd: 1st Meeting of States Parties

• Opening of the 1st Meeting of States Parties - Austria Center - Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, 1220 Wien
• Youth MSP - 9am - 5pm
• Youth Statement may be organized at some point
• June 21: Side Event on Articles 6 and 7 of the TPNW with the Missions of Kazakhstan and Kiribati, AUSTRIA CENTER HALL D // 13:15 - 14:30
• June 23rd: Side Event on the Pacific Bure, AUSTRIA CENTER HALL D// 13:15 - 14:30
• Dress Code: Formal Business Attire throughout the MSP
• Second Day: Attend the Plenary Meetings and Lunchtime Side Event on Victim Assistance and Enviromental Remediation
• Third Day: Side Event on the Pacific Bure in Hall D
• Expectations: Expectations: Tweet Statements, Take Notes for Blog for the 1st Day, Instagram Lives or Video about Impressions of the Days
• Debriefing in the Evenings