Speeches and Reports
Peace-Building in an Unstable World
Innovative approaches to world peace in 21st century
Third International Nonviolence Leadership Training Camp
Anuvibha's Children's Peace Palace
Rajsamand (Rajasthan) Near Udaipur (INDIA)
5th to 7th February 2010
Speaker: Vijay Mehta
EXPLORING DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE at the personal and universal level
SAYER CENTRE
Oxgate Lane, London NW2 7JN
Sunday 24th January 2010
Speeches from past events held by Action for UN Renewal, and given by Vijay Mehta can be found by clicking on the titles below. If you do wish to use these speeches for your own purpose, please acknowledge Vijay Mehta in your work.
Reforms in Global Governance and Democracy: for a Just, Peaceful and sustainable World
An article for compilation on
'Reforms in Governance'
for
Indian Institute of Public Administration
January 2010
VIJAY MEHTA
President, VM Centre for Peace;
Founding trustee, Fortune Forum Charity and
Chair, Action for UN Renewal
The UN, Human Rights and Liberty
Achievements, Failures and Prospects for the future
Putney Branch, UNA
Hurlingham Yacht Club, 43a The Other Road, Putney, SW15 2NP
Tuesday 19 January 2010
Speaker:
Vijay Mehta
President, VM Centre for Peace
Chair, Action for UN Renewal
Co-chair, World Disarmament Campaign
Other speakers include Sir Brian Barder (former ambassador)
and Jeremy Corbyn MP
Beyond Obama – Priorities towards Nuclear Abolition
Monday, 20th July 2009
In a joint effort before its formal amalgamation, Action for UN Renewal, and World Disarmament Campaign hosted this event based on nuclear disarmament at the House of Parliament, chaired by Lord Peter Archer. With the close arrival of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NTP) summit, talks to assign security measures against NPT non-signatories India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea is fundamental if Obama is to lead his commitments for nuclear abolition....Full report here
Time Running Out: Transformation of the International Institutions in the 21st Century
Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street,
Marylebone, London, W1U 5AS
Monday, 23rd March 2009
A Report by David Spark, BBC journalist - Click to read report
NATO at 60
Disbanding is the only option – not expanding or rebranding
NATO was formed in 1949 to defend Europe against the growing power of the Soviet Union. The original members were Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
The first secretary-general of the alliance, the British General Hastings Ismay, joked that the purpose of the organization was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."
Proponents of disbanding the alliance say that purpose was fulfilled in 1991, with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the alliance of the former Soviet Union and its satellite states. From then onwards NATO has been trying for the past 20 years to re-purpose itself for some other mission. It is called NATO yet it is called for military incursions in places like
Afghanistan serving mainly US interests....
Read full article here
Close Guantanamo Bay and End Illegal Detention
Anglican Chaplaincy, Centre in the Campus, Lancaster University
12.30 – 2.00 pm (Lunch time meeting)
Tuesday, 10th March 2009
The UN Doctrine on the Responsibility to Protect
Can it be enforced to prevent wars, genocides and crimes against humanity?
Highgate Room
Shakespeare Centre, Kendal
6.00 – 8.00 pm
Monday 9th March 2009
Working for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
What can the United Nations and Civil Society do ?
AGM & Public Meeting
St. Lawrence Parish Room
Colebrook Street
Saturday, 7th March 2009
Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Successes and failure of the UDHR, Lymington Branch, UNA
Lymington Community Centre, New Street,
Lymington, Hants. SO41 9BQ.
Saturday, 28th February 2009
Annual Erskine Childers Lecture 2009 by Mairead Maguire and Vijay Mehta
Friends House, Euston, London
Tuesday 17th February 2009
Ending Wars and Achieving Peace – A Dream or a Reality: Making war history
St Andrews University, Scotland - Tuesday 9th December 2008
Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Successes and failure of the UDHR
New Arts Lecture Theatre, St Andrews University, Scotland - Tuesday 9th December 2008
Reforming the UN for the 21st Century
Royal Over Seas Club, Princes Street, Scotland - Monday 8th December 2008
New World Order and the United Nations: Ending terrorism, wars and violence for building a peaceful society
Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS - Tuesday, 25th November 2008
World Shortages & Global Security: Food Security, Climate Change and Prospects for peace
Wesley Chapel, 49 City Road, London, EC1Y 1AU - Saturday, 8th November 2008
Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Lancaster Hall, St Mary's Parish Church, High Street, Putney, SW15 - Tuesday, 16th September 2008
‘Who rules the world? Global challenges and the role of the UN in peacekeeping, human rights and international law’
Speech by Lord Hannay of Chiswick, Chair of the UN Association of the UK, Action for UN Renewal Erskine Childers Memorial Lecture, 9 September 2008
Friends House, London NW1 2BJ
Climate Change and Renewable Energy
An opportunity for business growth, sustainable development and saving the planet
A publication of the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE) Greece
The role of global institutions in tackling poverty
Scarcity in the midst of plenty – the role of effective global governance in reducing poverty
Wednesday 23rd April 2008, Magdalen Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford, OX1 4AU
Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation
Many Faces of Asian Security - Perspective from India and Pakistan
2008 Spring Conference, Wesley's Chapel, London - Saturday 19 April 2008
Who Rules the World
The Role of Effective Global
Governance in Harnessing Globalisation
The Third Annual Conference of the New School of Athens, Athens, Greece
- 2-5 April 2008
How effective is
the UN in Peacekeeping and mediating Conflict?
University of St Andrews, Scotland - 27th March 2008
Britain’s special relationship should be with the United Nations, not the USA
Labour Action for Peace
Friends House, 173
Euston Road, London - 19th February 2008
The
Resister -
Shanti Mehta and Vijay Mehta attend CND Global
Summit and Reception on 16-17 February 2008 at City Hall
UNA Leeds Speech
University of Leeds UNA,
Leeds, LS2 9JT - 13th February 2008
Bringing Democracy to Burma - What can the UK
Government do to promote and
implement the rule of law and the UN Charter?
Committee Room 4a House
of Lords, London - 4th December 2007
Reforming
the UN for the 21st Century
United Reform Church, Essex Street, London WC2 - 9th
August 2007
Challenges + Opportunities in the 21st Century
Report of the
Hague Peace Conference
1999
Youth
Voices
Impressions of the
youngsters trip to Hague peace conference 1999
Africa
A Continent Forgotten
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