Public forum: Who will stop nuclear next use?

Opening remarks

Statement by Japanese for Peace

Kandori Shizuka: Japanese for Peace.

Keynote speakers

The present moment in the task of abolishing nuclear weapons

Rolf Ekéus: Chair, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The challenge of getting to zero: The role of the Australia-Japan International Commission in Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

Gareth Evans: Co-chair, International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament

Speakers

New climate science and the urgency of zero

Tilman Ruff: Australian NGO advisor - International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.

Challenging the myth that we need nuclear weapons

Marianne Hanson: Reader in International Relations, University of Queensland.

Why are nuclear weapons so persistent?

Patrick Morgan: Tierney Chair, Peace & Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine.

What is to be done? By whom? When? And How?

Joseph Camilleri: Director, Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University.

New dynamics: nuclear relations in Northeast Asia

Jimbo Ken: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

New developments in Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones

Michael Hamel-Green: Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University.

Towards an arc of disarmament: the Australia-Japan connection and post-nuclear security

Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Professor of Japanese History, Australian National University

Can Japan change? New government, civil society and the region

Kawasaki Akira: Japanese NGO advisor - International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.

A global abolition treaty: getting us to zero

Dimity Hawkins: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ican).

Fuelling uncertainty: Uranium and Australia's nuclear landscape

Dave Sweeney: Australian Conservation Foundation.

The nuclear fuel cycle and Australia's energy future

Hugh Saddler: Managing Director, Energy Strategies.

Transnational linkages for peace

Yi Kiho: Director, Nautilus Institute ARI, Seoul.