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

Espen Barth Eide, 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 Niam, 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

Nobel Peace Conference

Will be livestreamed 6 August 2025. Free and open for all!