Your contact person for all media questions concerning the congress is:

Sven Hessmann
Media relations officer
Tel. +49 (0)30 / 69 80 74 - 14
Fax +49 (0)30 / 693 81 66
Email: hessmann[at]ippnw.de

For a joint future

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
dear friends,

I would like you to please take note of the following event:

the IPPNW extends an invitation to its 3rd Open Congress for a Culture of Peace on September 12-14, 2008 in the Urania in Berlin.  

The congress will deal with the four global threats with which we are faced at the beginning of the 21st century: climate change, the fight for resources, global militarization and marginalization of the ‘world majority’. It will analyse the risks to peace and reveal their fundamental philosophies. It will provoke and encourage action.

The invitation is extended to all interested parties from research and politics, ecology and education, religion and the arts, media and science, at those in social practice, doing peace, environmental or human rights work, in schools and in extracurricular education.

Please pass this invitation on to any other interested parties.

Thank you

Frank Uhe
for the congress preparation group

The congress is being held in cooperation with the NaturwissenschaftlerInnen Initiative für Frieden und Zukunftsfähigkeit  (Scientists’ Initiative for Peace and Sustainability) and the German affiliate of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA).

The exhibition “The Other Globalisation" by Katharina Mouratidi can be viewed at the fringe programme of the 3rd public IPPNW Congress that is to be held from September 12-14, 2008 in the Urania, Berlin.

The series comprises 36 life-sized portraits and interviews with members of the globalisation-critical movement from around the world. From November 2002 to October 2004 Katharina Mouratidi visited some of the movement’s most important conferences, events and meetings. She made photographic portrays of participants and asked them about their own personal motivation for their involvement. All those interviewed were asked the same question, “Why do you do what you do?” The texts were added to the photographs. 

The project presents activists from 43 different countries. Included in the series are a number of internationally recognised prominent personalities, including Nobel Laureates, winners of the Right Livelihood Award (‘Alternative Nobel Prize’) as well as members of diverse organisations, networks and groups. Among those portrayed are: Walden Bello/Philippines, José Bové/France, Haidi Giuliani/Italy, Zac Goldsmith/Great Britain, Martin Khor/Malaya, Rigoberta Menchú/Guatemala, Horst-Eberhard Richter/Germany, Vandana Shiva/India and Joseph Stieglitz/USA.