Invitation to online Common Security Conference 10-11 April 2025
I am contacting you today to personally invite you to an online conference on 10-11 April, organized by the International Peace Bureau, International Trade Union Confederation, and the Olof Palme International Center.
The event, entitled “Common Security Conference 2025: Redefining Security for the 21st Century” seeks to expand upon the work that we began in 2022 with the publication of the report Common Security 2022: For Our Shared Future and continued with last years’ Common Security in the Indo-Pacific report.
The upcoming conference is also a recognition that we are not the only organizations fighting to redefine ‘security’ away from strictly militarized definitions to more inclusive and peace-based ones. We therefore believe that it is vital that we come together for key discussions on our efforts to redefine security and to coordinate efforts to produce greater results for our shared goal.
Our collective knowledge and experience is needed to fight for a better, less militaristic and more just conception of security. We sincerely hope that you will be able to join us on 10-11 April. Importantly, the conference will include regional discussions and an open discussion forum – for the full program schedule you can visit this page.
Please note that this conference is envisioned as the start of a bigger process of coalition-building around redefining security. We will take extensive notes of the discussions with the aim of building the next steps collaboratively with all of you.
Please feel free to share the invitation with those in your network that may be interested to attend/contribute to the discussion. We are also accepting ‘endorsing organizations’ for the events, should you be interested.
Should you have questions, please do not hesitate to let me know. Thank you and we hope to see you there!
Read more about the International Peace Bureau here