Just Peace Festival
Just Peace Dialogue: Climate and Peace
- Date
- Sunday 22 June 2025
- Time
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- Spanish Steps
Today’s world faces large-scale climate change and other environmental disruptions. Meeting these challenges involves major adjustments to economy and society, with substantial potential for conflict and violence. This dialogue assembles leading authorities on the relationship between climate and peace, including speakers from civil society, government, NATO, university and youth. The panel explores how climate change can be handled in ways that minimize war and maximize peace.
Meet the panel
Kumi Naidoo, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
- Kumi Naidoo is a South African human rights and environmental justice activist, who currently is the President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University. He is the former Secretary-General of Amnesty International (2018-2020) and also the first person from the Global South to lead Greenpeace International (2009-2015). He is an advisor for the Community Arts Network. He serves as a global ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. His family has started the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism to build on the positive legacies left by popular South African rapper Rikhado “Riky Rick” Makhado through his music and life’s work. Kumi is the author of award-winning Letters To My Mother: The Makings of a Troublemaker. Kumi is also the host of the podcast Power, People and Planet.
Anna Pot, Netherlands National SDG Coordinator
- Anna Pot is the National Coordinator, a role in which she promotes national implementation of the SDGs in and by the Netherlands. The Coordinator works closely with other ministries and organisations within the central government, as well as with the broad SDG movement in the Netherlands, including companies, municipalities and provinces, NGOs, youth organisations, knowledge and educational institutions.
Judith Verweijen, Utrecht University
- Judith Verweijen's research is situated at the intersection of political geography, political ecology and conflict studies. It focuses on the interplay between resource conflicts, environmental and climate change and armed mobilization in areas of protracted violence, and how representations of this interplay feed into policy discourses and practices.
Noemi Zenk-Agyei, World's Youth for Climate Justice
- Noemi Zenk-Agyei is a campaigner for the World’s Youth for Climate Justice. This is a global campaign assisting the Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) in taking climate change and human rights to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to seek an Advisory Opinion.
Schedule
- 13.30 Doors Open
- 14.00-15.10 Roundtable
- 15.15-16.15 Breakout Groups
- 16.15-17.15 Borrel
Registrations will open soon