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| − | |twitter=BeaFihn | + | |image_caption=[[ICAN]] Coordinator [http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Daniel%20Hogstan Daniel Hogstan], Executive Director [[Beatrice Fihn]] and her husband [https://twitter.com/fihnramsay Will Fihn Ramsay], after the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] announcement |
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| − | '''Beatrice Fihn''' has worked with disarmament issues and multilateral negotiations since | + | '''Beatrice Fihn''' has worked with disarmament issues and multilateral negotiations since 2006. She is currently the Executive Director of the [[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons]] (ICAN) where she is managing the campaign of 425 NGOs working together for a [[Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty|treaty banning nuclear weapons]].<ref>''[http://reinvent.net/innovator/beatrice-fihn/ "Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons"]''</ref> |
| + | ==Prizewinning== | ||
| + | On 6 October 2017, following the Nobel Committee's announcement that [[ICAN]] had won the 2017 [[Nobel Peace Prize]], Beatrice Fihn said Trump “puts a spotlight” on the dangers of [[nuclear weapons]]: | ||
| + | :“The election of President [[Donald Trump]] has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authorise the use of nuclear weapons,” she told reporters in Geneva, adding that “there are no right hands for nuclear weapons”. | ||
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| + | Fihn, who called Trump “a moron” in a ''[[Twitter]]'' post just two days before the peace prize announcement,<ref>''[https://twitter.com/BeaFihn/status/915598750969712640 "Donald Trump is a moron"]''</ref> said the award sent a message to all nuclear-armed states that “we can’t threaten to indiscriminately slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians in the name of security”.<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/06/anti-nuclear-campaign-group-ican-wins-nobel-peace-prize "Nobel peace prize winner rebukes Trump over nuclear standoff"]''</ref> | ||
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| + | ===One "impulsive tantrum away"=== | ||
| + | The destruction of humankind is one “impulsive tantrum away”, the Australian-founded winner of the Nobel peace prize, the [[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons]], warned overnight on Sunday 10 December 2017 as the [[United States]] and [[North Korea]] exchanged threats over Pyongyang’s nuclear testing regime: | ||
| + | :“Will it be the end of [[nuclear weapons]], or will it be the end of us?” Beatrice Fihn warned in [[Oslo]] after receiving the peace prize on behalf of [[ICAN]]. | ||
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| + | :“The only rational course of action is to cease living under the conditions where our mutual destruction is only one impulsive tantrum away. Nuclear weapons are a madman’s gun held permanently to our temple.”<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/nuclear-annihilation-one-tantrum-away-nobel-peace-prize-winner-warns "Nuclear annihilation 'one tantrum away', Nobel peace prize winner warns"]''</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Disarming== | ||
| + | Previously, Beatrice Fihn managed the disarmament programme at the 'Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom' and the 'Reaching Critical Will' project. She has written extensively on disarmament processes and civil society engagement. She has a law degree from the University of London.<ref>''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwKvay8AXM "Beatrice Fihn on human rights impact of nuclear testing"]''</ref> | ||
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Beatrice Fihn has worked with disarmament issues and multilateral negotiations since 2006. She is currently the Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) where she is managing the campaign of 425 NGOs working together for a treaty banning nuclear weapons.[1]
Contents
Prizewinning
On 6 October 2017, following the Nobel Committee's announcement that ICAN had won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Beatrice Fihn said Trump “puts a spotlight” on the dangers of nuclear weapons:
- “The election of President Donald Trump has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authorise the use of nuclear weapons,” she told reporters in Geneva, adding that “there are no right hands for nuclear weapons”.
Fihn, who called Trump “a moron” in a Twitter post just two days before the peace prize announcement,[2] said the award sent a message to all nuclear-armed states that “we can’t threaten to indiscriminately slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians in the name of security”.[3]
One "impulsive tantrum away"
The destruction of humankind is one “impulsive tantrum away”, the Australian-founded winner of the Nobel peace prize, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, warned overnight on Sunday 10 December 2017 as the United States and North Korea exchanged threats over Pyongyang’s nuclear testing regime:
- “Will it be the end of nuclear weapons, or will it be the end of us?” Beatrice Fihn warned in Oslo after receiving the peace prize on behalf of ICAN.
- “The only rational course of action is to cease living under the conditions where our mutual destruction is only one impulsive tantrum away. Nuclear weapons are a madman’s gun held permanently to our temple.”[4]
Disarming
Previously, Beatrice Fihn managed the disarmament programme at the 'Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom' and the 'Reaching Critical Will' project. She has written extensively on disarmament processes and civil society engagement. She has a law degree from the University of London.[5]
A Document by Beatrice Fihn
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Speech to the European Parliament by Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN | Speech | 7 February 2018 | Donald Trump Nuclear weapon International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Nuclear Posture Review EU Non-Proliferation Consortium | "Are you going to support the new Trump Nuclear Doctrine? Join the thinking of Russia, North Korea? Cheer on a new nuclear arms race? Or are you going to support the work for the prohibition and the elimination of nuclear weapons? You cannot do both." |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2019 | 15 February 2019 | 17 February 2019 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events." |
| Munich Security Conference/2020 | 14 February 2020 | 16 February 2020 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." |
| Munich Security Conference/2022 | 18 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Labour Built the Bomb | Article | 10 July 2017 | Bill Ramsay | The prompt for this short essay is not Labour's nuclear legacy: it is what took place in the UN General Assembly last Friday when the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty passed into international law. |
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References
- ↑ "Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons"
- ↑ "Donald Trump is a moron"
- ↑ "Nobel peace prize winner rebukes Trump over nuclear standoff"
- ↑ "Nuclear annihilation 'one tantrum away', Nobel peace prize winner warns"
- ↑ "Beatrice Fihn on human rights impact of nuclear testing"
