Programme
Nobel Peace Conference 2025
6 AUGUST 2025 | 13:00-17:00 CEST
The Nobel Peace Conference 2025 celebrates Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo’s work for a world free of nuclear weapons. The same day, the world marks 80 years since the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the testimonies of the survivors as a backdrop, and in a time of international tension, we discuss today’s nuclear threat and look at solutions which strengthen the work to ensure that these weapons are never used again.
13:00 - 13:30
Opening session
Kjersti Fløgstad, Executive Director, Nobel Peace Center
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair, Norwegian Nobel Committee
Masako Wada, Ass. Secretary General, Nihon Hidankyo, Nobel Peace Prize 2024
13:30 - 14:30
Session 1: The nuclear threat anno 2025 - can we avoid a new nuclear arms race?
Daniel Högsta, ICAN, Nobel Peace Prize 2017
Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize 2023 (video speech)
Sasha Romantsova, Center for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize 2022
PANEL CONVERSATION:
Stefan Löfven, Former Prime Minister of Sweden and Chair of the Board, SIPRI
Eivind Vad Petersson, State Secretary for Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Moderator: Arnaud Siad, Host of PRIO’s Peace in a Pod
14:30 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 16:30
Session 2: Renewing the conversation and strengthening the pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons
Benoît Pelopidas, Professor and Founder of the Nuclear Knowledges program at Sciences Po
PANEL CONVERSATION:
Penelope Lea, Climate activist
Daniel Högsta, ICAN
Masako Wada, Nihon Hidankyo
Moderator: Robert K. Elder, Outrider Foundation
SOLUTIONS SESSION:
South Carolina Environmental Law Project (video speech)
Zia Mian, Senior Research Scholar and Co-Director, Program in Science and Global Security, Princeton University (video speech)
Emma Pike, Lex International
Raymond Johansen, Secretary General, Norwegian People's Aid
Venessa Hanson, ICAN
Miranda Aaland, No to Nuclear Weapons
Masako Wada
Ass. Secretary General, Nihon Hidankyo, Nobel Peace Prize 2024
Stefan Löfven
Chair of the Board, SIPRI
Oleksandra Romantsova
Executive Director, Centre for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize 2021
Daniel Högsta
Interim Executive Director, ICAN, Nobel Peace Prize 2017
Eivind Vad Petersson
State Secretary for Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Penelope Lea
Climate Activist
Venessa Hanson
Social Media Officer, ICAN, Nobel Peace Prize 2017
Emma Pike
Program manager, Lex International
Benoît Pelopidas
Professor, Founder of the Nuclear Knowledges program at Sciences Po
Zia Mian
Physicist, Princeton University
Online participant
Raymond Johansen
Secretary general, Norwegian People’s Aid
Robert K. Elder
Moderator / President & CEO, Outrider Foundation
Arnaud Siad
Moderator / Host of PRIO’s Peace in a Pod
Miranda Kristina Aaland
Local board member of «Nei til Atomvåpen» Oslo
Jørgen Watne Frydnes
Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Kjersti Fløgstad
Executive Director, Nobel Peace Center
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Nobel Peace Conference
Will be livestreamed 6 August 2025. Free and open for all!
