Global Alliance “Sustainable Peace and Prosperity for All”

International civil society platform that acts for the abolition of nuclear weapons toward the UN post-SDGs

The Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), together with international NGOs and others, established the Global Alliance “Sustainable Peace and Prosperity for All”, or GASPPA in short, as a civil society group on April 4, 2022. 

GASPPA aims to work for the elimination of nuclear weapons to be included as a goal in the next UN global agenda (post-SDGs) after 2030.

 

[Organization Name] Global Alliance “Sustainable Peace and Prosperity for All”

[Abbreviation] Global Alliance, GASPPA

 

The Global Alliance, together with organizations involved in diverse fields such as the environment, human rights, and health, will rethink the issue of nuclear weapons from the perspective of sustainability and develop activities such as policy proposals and campaigns toward the year 2030.

 

Founding-Statement

Mailing List Rules

Articles

Code of Ethics and Conduct

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Overview

１．Purpose

With the aim of making the elimination of nuclear weapons one of the UN’s Sustainable development goals for 2030 onwards (post SDGs),we will raise the issue of nuclear weapons from the perspective of sustainability and urge the international community to take action.

 

２．Requirements for joining

All individuals and organizations that support the founding statement can join.

 

３．Major Activities

(1) We will frame the issue of nuclear weapons in terms of the impact on society, economy, environment, and many other areas from the perspective of sustainability, formulate and publish policy recommendations for raising the issue in the international community, and disseminate the information through campaign.

(2) We will establish a Group of Friends consisting of government officials involved in diplomatic negotiations and support its activities. Group members will encourage their respective governments to join the Group of Friends.

(3) In order to participate in international negotiations as one of the negotiating parties, we will apply for consultative status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)and launch a new group in the “Major Groups and Other Stakeholders.”

(4) We will provide support from the civil society sector for“ An Agenda for Disarmament” and “Our Common Agenda” announced by the UN. Furthermore, we will lobby to ensure that the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by 2045 is included in the “Agenda for Peace” to be formulated in the coming“ Summit of the Future” and becomes part of the global movement toward the next development goals.

４．Member Organizations

Currently, 34 organizations from 15 countries in the world joined in this group.

          member organizations(as of 2022/11/18)

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5．Activities

HOPe, the secretariat of GASPPA, has raised issues at international conferences from the perspective of the nexus between nuclear weapons and sustainability, and has called for participation in GASPPA.

(1) A Dialog Event at the ICAN Civil Society Forum; Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 1st Meeting of the State Parties (June, 2022)

At the civil society forum held prior to the TPNW 1st Meeting of the State Parties, a dialogue event was held on the theme of “TPNW and Sustainability.”

 

Moderator

Toshiya Hoshino

Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University,

Co-Chair of the Working Group for Nuclear Disarmament and Sustainable Future of HOPe

 

 

Panelists

Michaela Higgins Sørensen

Youth Fusion *Member of GASPPA

 

 

 

Yukino Yamaguchi

KNOW NUKES TOKYO

 

 

 

Iku Nakamura

KNOW NUKES TOKYO

 

 

 

Presentation

TPNW and Sustainability

Discussion Summary

• Until now, nuclear weapons have been discussed in terms of security and humanitarian aspects, but there has been no discussion on the axis of sustainability.

• At Youth Fusion, in conveying the importance of the nuclear weapons issue, we are working to promote dialogue between generations, take a cross-sectoral approach, and communicate in an easy-to-understand manner so that many people can get involved.

• At KNOW NUKES TOKYO, we are promoting activities such as mock conferences of the State Parties, dialogues with parliamentarians, and interviews with atomic bomb survivors.

• We need to make this goal more visible so that more people can think about the nuclear weapons issue from the perspective of sustainability.

• A scientific body like the IPCC(Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change) that makes evidence-based recommendations is needed to articulate the link between nuclear abolition and sustainability.

• Nuclear abolition and sustainability have wide-ranging impacts, not only on the environment, but also on gender, education, and health.

• It is necessary to break away from a security system that is overly dependent on nuclear weapons.

 

(2) Special Session on the UN High Level Political Forum (July, 2022)

At the special event on the HLPF, HOPe and GASPPA hold a dialog session, titled “The 2030 Agenda and global challenges Interconnections: A reflection on nuclear weapons and SDG implementation”

*This session will be started around “57:00”.

Moderator

Toshiya Hoshino

Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University,

Co-Chair of the Working Group for Nuclear Disarmament and Sustainable Future of HOPe

 

 

Panelists

Danielle McLaughlin

Project Lead,

Horizon 2045 Legal Strategies

 

 

Mihoko KUMAMOTO

Director, UNITAR Division for Prosperity and UNITAR Hiroshima Office

 

 

 

 

Hidehiko YUZAKI

Governor,

Hiroshima Prefecture

Representative of HOPe

 

Presentation

Presentation (HLPF)

 

Discussion Summary

• The use of nuclear weapons would cause catastrophic damage to the achievement of all the goals set out in the SDGs. Hiroshima 76 years ago suffered devastating damage in every field, the environment was polluted, and above all, many precious lives were lost. Faced with the crisis in Ukraine, we need to remind ourselves that nuclear weapons pose a clear threat to the sustainable future of mankind.

• Nuclear weapons continue to have a major negative impact on the achievement of the SDGs, even if they are not used, such as health damages in the manufacturing process of nuclear weapons, human suffering and environmental pollution due to nuclear testing,.

• We must reconsider the nuclear weapons issue from the perspective of the sustainability of mankind and the earth, and recognize that both nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states are on the same ship, the earth.

(3) Side-Event at the NPT Review Conference (July, 2022)

At the NPT Review Conference, a side event was held under the theme of “Nuclear Disarmament and Our Sustainable Future,” co-sponsored by Nagasaki Prefecture, a member of GASPPA. We discussed with GASPPA members and others what we must do now to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons as soon as possible by 2045.　 A GASPPA banner was also displayed at the venue.

Moderator

Toshiya HOSHINO

Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University Former Ambassador to UN, Japan　

 

Panelists

Danielle McLaughlin 

Project Lead,

Horizon 2045 Legal Strategies

 

Jessica Sleight

Global Zero　

Partner, Strategy, Policy & Partnerships

 

Stephen Schwartz

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists　*A Member of GASPPA

Nonresident Senior Fellow

 

Kenneth Chiu

Reverse The Trend

Youth Activist

 

Welcoming Remarks

Kengo Oishi, Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture

 

Breief Introduction

Hidehiko Yuzaki, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture

Representative of HOPe

 

Discussion Summary

• Proposed idea by the Horizon 2045; A new approach to changing society and addressing system reform was introduced. People will believe in a future without nuclear weapons, by grasping future technological, political, economic and social changes, considering normative and legal frameworks, and narrating the connections between them.

• Proposed idea by the Global Zero; Once we understand how the existence of nuclear weapons unfairly inflicts great damage on non-white people and causes losses to the economy and investment, we should start by implementing the reduction of nuclear weapons by the U.S. and Russia, introducing a binding no-first-use policy at the same time.

• Comments by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; An effort by one or two of the nuclear-weapon states, or by the rise of civil society, can create the kind of change we have seen with other weapons and social movements.
  
  

• Youth Activities concerning Climate Change and the Issues of Nuclear Weapons reported by the Reverse the Trend; In addition to the opinion that the two issues of climate change and nuclear weapons are closely linked in terms of sustainability, he is working on issues such as the cost of nuclear weapons and nuclear testing, and the trauma of hibakusha.

• We shared with the participants that the abolition of nuclear weapons is the path that must be taken in order to create a sustainable future. Finally, the governors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki issued a joint message calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

 

 

6．Visions and Challenges for the Future

Global Alliance works for the realization of the “Visions and Challenges for Transformation and Just Transition towards the Post-SDGs World”, which is proposed by HOPe.

Executive Summary “Visions and Challenges for Transformation and Just Transition towards the Post-SDGs World”

Full version  “Visions and Challenges for Transformation and Just Transition towards the Post-SDGs World” 

 

 

(1) Regarding the “Visions and Challenges for Transformation and Just Transition towards the Post-SDGs World”

In addition to the conventional discussion on nuclear weapons from the aspects of “security and law” and “humanity and ethics,” we will rethink the issue from the perspective of “sustainability” and develop campaign activities to raise awareness of the need to include the perspective of “Sustainable Peace and Prosperity for All” in the discussion on the post-SDGs.

 

（2）Future Plan

The Global Alliance will discuss the“post-nuclear weapon age and Sustainability Agenda and Vision for Transformation and Transition Toward Post-SDGs”from an international and cross-sectoral perspective and formulate proposals.

 

We will proceed with the formulation of proposals and campaign for the year 2023, the mid-year of the SDGs and the year in which the G7 summit is scheduled to be held in Japan.