The Pacific Peace Network invites you to a webinar on Saturday, November 15 at 11:00am Brisbane (AEST) (find the time in your time zone) to discuss the recent Declaration for an Ocean of Peace issued at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in September. Keynote speaker Rev James Bhagwan, General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, will share how the Declaration was developed and presented and what the challenges are in effective implementation.

Voices from across the Pacific will then reflect on their local context and plans for achieving peaceful self-determination for the ocean wide community, including:

• Okinawa/Japan: Satoko Oka Norimatsu is editor, author, and translator of Responsibility for Justice – From the World to Okinawa, Okinawa Is Not Alone – Voices for Okinawa from the World.
• Papua New Guinea: Gordon Walimbu is a political scientist and the President of the UPNG Catholic Students Association. Gordon will review the PukPuk treaty recently agreed between Australia and PNG.
• Philippines: Galileo de Guzman Castillo is a Programme Officer with Focus on the Global South (Focus), a collective of committed activists working with grassroots communities, civil society organizations, social movements, and policy makers in our common quest for ecological, social, and economic justice.
• Australia: Kellie Tranter is a lawyer, researcher, and human rights advocate. She writes for https://declassifiedaus.org/author/kellie-tranter/
• Aotearoa/New Zealand: Liana McDonald is the Chair in Māori, Moriori and Indigenous Peace Studies and Co-Director of Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. She is an interdisciplinary researcher who is interested in how Māori and other Indigenous groups are positioned in colonised countries and resist oppression.
• Guåhan: Monaeka "Naek" Flores (Familian Kabesa, Mannok) is a queer CHamoru activist and artist from Guåhan. Naek has organized with several local groups to advocate for decolonization, demilitarization, environmental justice, reproductive rights, and LBGTQIA rights. Naek works with Prutehi Guåhan (formerly Prutehi Litekyan) to confront harms from militarization through direct action, legal strategy, public information campaigns, and advocacy and also organizes with Mariånas for Palestine.
• Hawai'i: Bryce Puesta Takenaka is a Youth Organizer and Lead Researcher for Hawai'i Peace & Justice (HPJ), a Hawaiian-led grassroots organization committed to promoting peace, social justice, and sovereignty. Bryce is also a PhD Candidate at Yale School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences studying the impacts of militarism and tourism on Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) health outcomes across Kō Hawaii Pae 'Āina.
• South Korea: Sung-hee Choi lives in Gangjeong Village, Jeju and has joined the movement against the Jeju navy base for the last 15 years. She also works with People Opposing Space Militarization and Rocket Launches.

Moderated by Liz Remmerswaal (Pacific Peace Network & World BEYOND War)

Please join us to share and learn how we can better coordinate and collaborate to realise a nuclear free and independent Pacific. Click "Register" to sign up and get the Zoom link for this webinar! Registration information for this event will be shared with the Pacific Peace Network and World BEYOND War.

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