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Francis Daehon Lee has been elected as a board member of IPB in 2025. Francis Daehoon Lee has been a professor for peace studies at SungKongHoe University, Ritsumeikan University and the International University of Japan.  He served as legal advisor to the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Sub-commission in 2005 and worked with the Center for…

Francesco Vignarca has been elected as a board member in 2025. Francesco has been working in the field of peace and disarmament for over twenty years and has been the Coordinator of the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network Campaigns since 2020. He was previously the National Coordinator of the Italian Disarmament Network (2004-2020). He works…

Anuradha Chenoy is a former collaborator of IPB and has been elected as a board member in 2025. Anuradha is an academic committed to peace. She is a writer who seeks to unravel geopolitics and show peace-related alternatives. Anuradha is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal Global University in…

Binalakshmi Nepram is the current Vice President of IPB and a former Board member. She is a Harvard University Fellow at the Asia Centre as well as a writer, humanitarian and civil rights activist spearheading work on making women-led peace, security and disarmament a movement and an issue that is meaningful to people’s lives.

When U.S. President Donald Trump publicly expressed interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark, many observers initially dismissed the idea as eccentric political theater. Yet the episode raises deeper geopolitical and philosophical questions about power, sovereignty, and the contradictions within the Western liberal order. Was this truly about Greenland, or did the territory merely provide a…

The Manila Anti-Incinerator Alliance (MAIA) said Manila City’s latest attempt to justify Ordinance No. 9151 fails to address its fundamental legal and policy defects. In responding to public criticism, the city framed the ordinance as cost-based and lawful. However, environmental advocates stressed that legality is determined by compliance with clear standards under the Local Government…

As February approaches, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) once again leads National Arts Month (NAM) 2026, rallying Filipinos under the theme “Ani ng Sining: Katotohanan at Giting.”* This year’s theme underscores the power of the arts to speak truth, inspire courage, and contribute to peace and development. Anchored on the outcomes…

At a critical moment in the global situation, in which neo-colonialist violence is reappearing and all respect for human rights and the self-determination of each people seems to be disappearing, the call of the World Humanist Forum to reflect and act collectively to build the world in which we want to live takes on great…

Dragana Zivancevic is currently Vice-President of IPB and a member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Inc. (IPAN). IPAN represents over 50 organisational and 200 individual members. It is a national body comprised of peace organisations, faith organisations, trade unions and environmental and anti-nuclear groups.

Owen Tudor is IPB’s current Vice-President. He is also the Secretary of the Commonwealth Trade Union Group, which brings together 70 million workers in 46 Commonwealth countries and a member of the Executive Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative UK and the international board of CHRI. He was Deputy General Secretary of the International…