Letter to the editor “This is a disgrace” published unabridged in the Münchner Merkur on February 7, 2024. As long-time supporters and participants in the “International Peace Conference”, which has been organized by people from the Munich peace movement with passion and great commitment for 22 years, we are shocked and outraged by the motion […]
Hans-Christof von Sponeck in a letter from the Board of Trustees to Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter dated February 8, 2024 Board of Trustees of the International Munich Peace Conference (IMFK) Frauenlobstrasse 24 80339 Munich To Mr. Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter and the members of the City Council of the City of Munich Munich, February 8,
In a letter dated February 6, 2024, Head of Cultural Affairs Anton Biebl and Munich’s Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter informed the sponsors of the International Munich Peace Conference that the Department of Culture would not be supporting the Peace Conference in 2024 or in the future. This jeopardizes the implementation of the peace conference. At
Anton Biebl Cultural Officer 06.02.2024 “I regret to inform you that … the International Munich Peace Conference 2024 and probably also in the following years cannot be funded.” A green-red city council motion, 14 days before the conference, wants to stop the City of Munich’s funding “immediately and in future”. Mr. Anton Biebl, Head of
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Hans Limmer, political scientist, retired program director at Munich Adult Education Center Munich February 7th, 2024 Instead of a greeting, the mayor of the state capital Munich informed the peace conference that it is no longer considered worthy of support, with immediate effect and also in the future. … Is this an attempt to stifle
PM February 8th, 2024: Save the International Munich Peace Conference! Since 2005, for almost 20 years, the International Munich Peace Conference has been sponsored by the City of Munich. The cooperation with the cultural department has been trusting all these years. In 2022, second mayor Katrin Habenschaden gave the welcoming address. Together with Lord Mayor
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PM from February 5th, 2024 of the Peace Conference team Munich Peace Conference appeals to city council: Continue to promote diversity of opinion and a culture of peace! The motion submitted by the SPD/Volt and Grüne-Rosa Liste city council groups on February 1, 2024 to discontinue funding for the International Munich Peace Conference is a
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ATTENTION: BEGINNING 6 p.m. – LIVE-STREAM in GERMAN and ENGLISH On Saturday evening, the focus will be on the unequal distribution of power in international politics and world trade and its negative effects on people, nature and the climate. In particular, the power imbalance between the global South and the global North and the systems
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Workshop I: Campaign “NO means NO”: Conscientious objection in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine “Our goal is to steal Lukashenko’s army and block any of his attempts to send the Belarusian army to help Putin in Ukraine,” says Olga Karach. In the initial phase, the main task of the campaign is to prevent forced mobilization. We
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LIVE-STREAM in GERMAN and ENGLISH Due to the European elections on June 9, 2024, the program on Friday evening will focus on security policy tensions and conflicts in Europe, or rather security policy tensions and conflicts emanating from Europe, and possible solutions. We start the evening with the band “Neurosenheimer” Michael von der Schulenburg, former
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