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Monaeka Flores has been elected as a board member in 2025. Monaeka is the Executive Director and a founding member of PrutehiGuåhan (formerly Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian) and afounding member and core organizer of the collective Mariånas for Palestine. Prutehi Guåhan is a community-based direct-action group in Guam, an “unincorporated territory” and military colony of…

Youngah Lee has been elected as a board member of IPB in 2025. Youngah Lee works at People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) as Manager of the Center for Peace and Disarmament and is also working at the secretariat of the Korea Peace Action Campaign. She has worked on peace, disarmament, international conflict and human…

Quique Sánchez Ochoa was elected as an IPB board member in 2025. Quique holds a bachelor in Political Science and a master’s degree in International Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. His career, activism and research are dedicated to peacebuilding and social and environmental justice. He works as a project manager at Centre Delàs of Peace…

Reiner Braun was a board member of IPB from 2006 to 2013, then Co-President until 2019 and subsequently Executive Director from 2019 to 2022. Following a break from 2022 to 2025, he was elected a board member in 2025 for the upcoming term (2025-2028). Reiner studied German literature, history and journalism. He was actively involved…

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…