General

The following open letter to Pope Leo XIV was issued on August 19. If you would like to sign this appeal, please fill out this Google form.

We appeal to you, Pope Leo, as the leader who has made the greatest effort to speak for humanity as a whole, instead of for specific nations, religions, or constituencies, to call for an emergency international summit to guide the world away from the current path of war and potential nuclear disaster and to peacefully resolve the greatest crises facing humanity today. Such an effort would be consistent with your repeated calls for peace and justice ever since you assumed the papacy—calls that have inspired and given hope to millions if not billions of people across our planet.

On June 10, 2025, U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released a brief but chilling video that began in Hiroshima and warned we are “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before” and that “political elite warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers.” “It’s up to us, the people,” she concluded, “to speak up and demand an end to this madness. We must reject this path to nuclear war and work toward a world where no one has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.”

On October 20, 2025, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency, warned, “The world is now experiencing the most fragile moment for international security since World War II.” Naryshkin continued, “Our shared, and perhaps principal, task is to ensure that adaptation to the new reality proceeds without a major war, as has happened at previous historical stages.” It has been many months since the two intelligence chiefs rang the alarm and we’ve only gotten closer to nuclear annihilation—much closer.

When Gabbard and Naryshkin issued those warnings, the war in Ukraine was raging, Israel was conducting its genocide in Gaza, and tensions were high between China and the U.S. over Taiwan and the South China Sea. We have since added the U.S./Israeli war with Iran and the threat of World War III has thus grown exponentially.

Signs continue to appear that leaders are planning for such an eventuality, even though we have known for more than four decades that even a limited nuclear war, let alone a large-scale one, could unleash unthinkable damage globally, including nuclear winter, which would threaten to end life on our planet. On August 20, 2024, the New York Times ran a front-page article warning that the U.S. was preparing to fight a simultaneous three-front nuclear war against Russia, China, and North Korea. That same day, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported on a growing school of nuclear strategists who believe a nuclear war can be fought and won, effectively overturning decades of understanding that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. In November 2024, U.S. Admiral Thomas Buchanan said that the U.S. was preparing to fight and win a nuclear war and keep enough nuclear weapons in reserve to be able to maintain its global hegemony. More recently, the U.S. Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has discussed the need for the U.S. to use tactical nuclear weapons on top of deploying troops from South Korea and Japan if fighting breaks out between the U.S. and China over the Taiwan Strait.

The experts behind the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock are not alone in believing that the world is getting closer and closer to nuclear annihilation. And on top of the threats coming from the U.S., several influential Russian leaders have called on Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in defeating Ukraine.

We, the undersigned from around the world, think the timing is propitious for calling an emergency international summit to address major conflicts in the world and the need for stepping away from the nuclear precipice. Russia has been bogged down in Ukraine for almost five years. Though Russia continues to make incremental gains at great cost, the battlefield has largely stalled and both sides are doing extensive damage to energy infrastructure and shipping in their drone and missile warfare, causing global energy and food shortages and suffering both inside and outside their respective countries. If NATO-backed Ukraine continues to cross Russia’s red lines, will Russian President Vladimir Putin be willing and able to thwart Russia’s hawks? The U.S., meanwhile, has been unable to find a diplomatic escape route from its war with Iran, which shows no sign of allowing the U.S. to end the crisis it and Israel created by attacking Iran. While China insists that retaining Taiwan is its ultimate red line, everyone in the region would benefit from a calming of tension and diverting resources into development, along the lines of China’s Belt and Road initiative, instead of into warmaking.

That last point should be applied universally. It is painfully wasteful to see so many nations diverting resources from food, housing, education, and healthcare to their militaries. This has especially been true in North America, Europe, and Asia where talk of peacefully resolving conflicts has given way to talk of preparing for war.

As you yourself wisely and powerfully stated a couple of months ago, “I have repeated more than once the fervent appeal that Saint Paul VI made to the United Nations Assembly—What unites me, my venerable predecessor noted, is a pact sealed ‘with an oath that ought to change the future history of the world: never again war, never again war! It is peace, peace, that has to guide the destiny of the nations of all mankind’! Above all in the atomic era, the affirmation of the truth must push through: it is not atomic weapons that generate peace, but disarmament. This truth, which seemed clear in past decades when we witnessed a nuclear de-escalation, has been obscured by a race to armament that today frightens and terrifies.”

It was indeed Pope Paul VI, the first pope to address the United Nations in October 1965, who, in that extraordinary address, quoted President Kennedy, “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.” He cited the Book of Isaiah, declaring, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” In his 1967 Encyclical “Populorum Progressio,” Pope Paul VI emphasized, “Development is the new name for Peace.”

Other popes have also taken bold initiatives to save humanity in moments of crisis. In October 1962, Pope John XXIII appealed for peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis and helped provide both President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev with face-saving means to resolve the crisis diplomatically rather than militarily at a moment when war seemed imminent. A similar effort might succeed today when the world’s two major wars seem to be intractably bogged down. (see “Letter To Archbishop John Wester, To Urge Pope Leo XIV to Call for a Peace Conference“) The same is true of the nuclear arms race as the nine nuclear powers are not only modernizing their arsenals but expanding them after decades of sensible if much too slow reductions. And, for the first time in decades, the two major nuclear antagonists are constrained by no nuclear arms control treaties. Other countries and territories, including Japan, South Korea, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and Ukraine, have begun discussing the attainment of nuclear weapons of their own, which would only turn the world into a larger nuclear tinderbox.

A papal appeal for an emergency summit to end the current wars and reverse the growing dependence on nuclear weapons and warfighting might give global leaders the chance to select a new course of action and get us off the current drive toward planet-destroying nuclear war. We urge you, Pope Leo, to use your unique moral authority to convene such a meeting of the world’s leaders, including the heads of state of the three principal nuclear powers, to meet and respond to the pleas of humanity to take our world in a fundamentally different direction before it is too late.

Initiating Signers

Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute, American University

Jack Gilroy, Pax Christi, Veterans for Peace, Ban Killer Drones, International Peace Coalition of Schiller Institute

Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Columbia University

Richard Falk, Albert Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University and Senior Vice President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Naledi Pandor, former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa (2019-2024)

H.E. Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, 2011-2015

Yukio Hatoyama, Former Prime Minister of Japan, 2009-2010

Ernesto Sócrates Pazmiño Granizzo, former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Ecuador; former vice president of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, Ecuador

Chandra Muzaffar, Islamic Reformist and Activist, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST); Convenor of SHAPE (Save Humanity and Planet Earth)

Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., Canada

Gian Guido Folloni, former Italian Senator; former Italian Minister for Relations with Parliament; former editor of Italian weekly Il Sabato and editor-in-chief of Italian daily Avvenire; Vice President of the Italian Institute for Asia and President of the Italy-Libya Friendship and Cooperation Association, (Italy)

Kathy Kelly, Pax Christi Teacher of Peace 1998; Board President, World Beyond War

David Swanson, Executive Director of World Beyond War; author, “War is Still a Lie”

Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Dean, People’s Academy of International Law

Bandy X. Lee, President of the World Mental Health Coalition; Co-founder of Preventing Violence Now

Dr. James C. Cobey, Founder, Health Volunteers Overseas; Steering Committee, Voices from the Holy Land; Member, International Committee to Ban Landmines (ICBLM), which received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize

Dr. Mohammad A. Toor, Chairman of Board of Trustees, Pakistani American Congress; President, American Pakistani Physicians for Justice & Democracy; Chairman, American Muslim Alliance

Glenn Diesen, Professor, University of South East Norway

Andrea Bartoli, President, Sant’ Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue; Founding Director, Center for International Conflict Resolution; Senior Research Scholar, Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity, Columbia University; former Dean , School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; former Dean, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University.

Ann Wright, US Army Colonel (Ret) and former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the US war on Iraq. Member of Veterans for Peace, World Beyond War, CODEPINK and Hawaii Peace and Justice

Susan Schnall, President, Veterans for Peace

Norman Solomon, Author and National Director of Roots Action

Hon. Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize)

Margaret Power and Van Gosse, Co-Chairs, Historians for Peace and Democracy

Ray McGovern, Co-founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Martin Sheen, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor; Pax Christi Teacher of Peace (1999)

Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Order of Canada Recipient

Frida Stranne, Professor, John Morton Center for North American Studies, University of Turku, Finland

Gerry Condon, Co-Coordinator, Nuclear Abolition Working Group of Veterans for Peace; Board of Directors, Veterans for Peace; Chair, Golden Rule Committee

Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), Former Chiel of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of State

Theodore Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christina Spannar & Jan Oberg, founders, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF, Lund, Sweden – https://transnational.live

Dr. Helen Caldicott cofounder Physicians for Social Responsibility 1985 Nobel Peace Prize

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Distinguished Professor American University

Martin Sieff, Former Chief Political Correspondent, United Press International, Three time Pulitzer Prize Nominee

Hall Gardner, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Politics, American University of Paris

Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, 1999-2011; Former President of Mayors for Peace

Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning Hollywood Director and Best-selling Author

Alice Slater, World Beyond War Board Member

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder, Schiller Institute; Initiator, International Peace Coalition

Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Chicago

Dr. Herbert Reginbogin, Professor of International Relations and International Law, Institute for Policy Research, The Catholic University of America

Steven Leeper, Chairman, Peace Culture Village, Hiroshima; Board Member, Physicians for Social Responsibility; Past President and Chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, 2007-2013

Hideki Yoshikawa, Director, Okinawa Environmental Justice Project; Advisory Board Member, World BEYOND War

Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus, Brown University; Veteran, United States Army, Defense Atomic Support Agency

Corazon Valdez Fabros, Co-President, International Peace Bureau (1910 Nobel Peace Prize)

Anastasia Battle, International Peace Coalition co-initiator, Schiller Institute

April Brown, Co-Founder, Marshallese Educational Initiative, and Professor of History, NWACC

Mary Dickson, Author and Survivor of nuclear weapons testing

Steven Starr, Associate, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Liliana Gorini, Chairwoman of Movisol, Italy

Anthony Donovan, Veterans For Peace, Pax Christi International, Catholic Worker, War Resisters League

Marylia Kelley, Senior Advisor, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, Livermore, CA

Jean Stevens, Warheads to Windmills Coalition

Dr Aruna Kammila, Professor & Director, School of Legal Studies, REVA University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, and nuclear winter researcher

Aaron Good, political scientist, host of the American Exception podcast, author of ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’

Elliot Greenspan, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition (USA)

Roberto Vela Pinedo Presidente de la Red de Integracion Amazonica

Gen. Edwin de la Fuente Jeria, Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

Maurizio Abbate, Chairman, National Institution for Cultural Activities of the Italian State (ENAM)

Rosemarie Pace, Pax Christi New York State

Jacques Cheminade, President, Solidarite et Progres (French political party); three times candidate for French President

Martha Hennessy, Catholic Worker, Kings Bay Plowshares 7, granddaughter of Dorothy Day

Robert Ellsberg, Publisher, Orbis Books

Marie Dennis, Past Co-President, Pax Christi International

Farhang Jahanpour, retired Distinguished Professor at the University of Isfahan, visiting professor at Harvard, lecturer at Cambridge, and part-time lecturer at Oxford University

Owen Brian Toon, Emeritus Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, researcher of nuclear winter

Celeste Saenz, Mexico, head of Journalists Club

Henry Baldelomar, Bolivia, former ambassador to Washington, D.C.

Mempo Giardinelli, Argentina, recipient of the Romulo Gallegos literature award of Venezuela, and the National Literature prize of Mexico

Pedro Paez, Ecuador, former deputy economics minister in the Correa government

Fernando Garzon, Ecuador, UN consultant, former President, Ecuadorian Committee for Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Ali Rastbeen, President of the Geopolitical Academy of Paris

Jane Swanson, President, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace

Bruce K. Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

Tse Anye Kevin, Acting President, State 55 Afrika, Pan African Political Officer Global African Congress

Mossi Raz, former Member of the Israeli Knesset; former Director-General of Peace Now, Israel

Maoz Inon, Israeli peace activist; Co-CEO, InterAct; Co-Author, “The Future is Peace”

Muhammad Salim Akhtar, National Director, American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT)

Ken Butigan, Member, Executive Committee of Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative; Senior Lecturer in Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies, Catholic Studies Dept., DePaul University

Joan Carrero, President of the S’Oliver Foundation (Spain)

Beatriz Biccio, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, historian and journalist (Brazil)

Professor (Dr) Anoop Swarup, Chairman Centre for Global Nonkilling

Ellen E Barfield, Veterans For Peace, War Resisters League, Women”s International League for Peace and Freedom

Rick Staggenborg, MD President, Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter

John Steinbach, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Ares

Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor Emeritus, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Geroge Mason University

Joseph Carson, President, Affiliation of Christian Engineers

Ulf Sandmark, Chairman, Schiller Institute in Sweden

Mike Ferner, former national president, Veterans For Peace

Klaus Fimmen, vice chairman Buergerrechtsbewegung Solidaritaet (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, Germany)

Art Laffin, Catholic Worker, Pax Christi Teacher of Peace 2016, author of The Risk of the Cross: Living Gospel Nonviolence in the Nuclear Age, co-editor of Swords into Plowshares

Tony Jenkins, Managing Director, International Institute on Peace Education, Coordinator, Global Campaign for Peace Education

Hno. Darwin Francisco Orozco Orozco, Minor Capuchin friar, novice master of the Conference of Capuchins of Hispanic America (CCH); member of the Franciscan Family’s Commission for Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC), Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Ramón Emilio Concepción, Attorney at Law; Presidential Pre-candidate, PRM party (2020), Dominican Republic

Alcibíades Abreu, Professor, School of Mathematics of UNIBE and Catholic University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Rafael Reyes Jerez, Journalist; producer of the programs “Cara a Cara” and “Economía y Política,” Dominican Republic

Enrique Antonio Sánchez Liranzo, Lawyer, author, poet—Columnist in Primicias newspaper, Dominican Republic

Dantes Ortiz Núñez, Historian; Professor of History, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Rev. John Dear, Executive Director, The Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus

John Kiriakou, former CIA Counterterrorism Officer; former Senior Investigator, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Karen Ball, Board Member, Pax Christi Texas, San Antonio Chapter

T. Herbert Dimmock, Founder and Director of “Bach in Baltimore”

Ilse Ritter(Germany), Actress of the Year (1985 and 1994), recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit for services to culture

Earl M Bousquet, Veteran Caribbean Journalist, Castries, St. Lucia

Father Claude Mostowik msc, President of Pax Christi Australia.

Judith Ehrlich, filmmaker, “An Ordinary Reality-Daniel Ellsberg on the Threat of Nuclear War”

Kay-Achim Schoenbach, Vice-Admiral (ret.) of the German Navy; former Inspector-General (Chief of the General Staff) of the German Navy

Alfred de Zayas, Professor, Geneva School of Diplomacy

Michele Di Paolantonio, AIMPGN, Italian Affiliate of IPPNW, 1985 Nobel Peace Prized Organization

Melvin Hardy, The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University; Washington Interfaith Staff Community

Kamel Louadj, Journalist-Correspondent of French language Sputnik-Afrique, Moscow

Max De Brouwer President, Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters, Brussels, Belgium

Roger Waters, Musician, Founding Member and Lead Singer of Pink Floyd

Lode Varoost Journalist, De Wereld Morgen, Belgium

Ben Wesley, Independent Party Nominee for U.S. Congress (CT–4th C.D.)

For the full list of signers, click below:

Full List of Signers

Aaron Good, political scientist, host of the American Exception podcast, author of ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’
Abdullah Ahsan
Achim Simmer
Achim Sommer
Adam Bradley
Adam Marín Loría
Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace
Agnieszka Nimark, Affiliated Scholar, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University
Ahmed Bassalat, An-Najah National University, Palestine
Alan Haber, Students for a Democratic Society, Megiddo Peace Project, UNION Option 2028, PeaceTable.org
Alan Macdonald, Professor Emeritus, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, and nuclear winter researcher
Alberto Sposito
Alexa Andra
Alexander Dávila / SIGNIS Ecuador
Alexander Ebert
Alexander Preobrazhenskiy, IT evangelist, father of three sons, marathoner
Alexander Schrieken
Alfred de Zayas, Professor, Geneva School of Diplomacy
Alice Murtha
Alison Weir, founder and executive director of If Americans Knew
Alissa Takesy, PhD candidate, Environmental Studies Department, University of California Santa Cruz
Aliyah Khan, Advocate for Justice and Universal Human Rights
Allyson Bowers, Registered Nurse
Although I am An atheist, I think Pope Leo will be the right person to fathom almost all peace-loving peope and organisationd. Johannes Lund/DK
Alvin A Valeriano
Amb. Br Meck Sibanda OFS ( Ambassador of Kindness Foundation For World Harmony), Executive Director Christian Youth Volunteers Association, Country Coordinator Laudato Si Movement Zimbabwe Chapter.
Anastasia Battle, International Peace Coalition co-initiator, Schiller Institute
Anastasia Conway
Anatolio NDONG MBA
Anders Axner, the Swedish Unity Party
Andrea Chiesa
Andrea Jepson
Andreas Papageorgiou
Andreas Schäfer
Andreas Wimmer
Andrej Hunko, Co-President of BSW NRW
Andrew Fidler
Andrew Forsyth, Berkeley, CA, USA
Andrew Karanikolis, Deputy Vice President of Sales in MENA & Europe, Easy Environmental Solutions, Inc.
Andrew MacDonald, Writer, Evolutionary YOU
Andrew Zoerner, physiotherapist and health service manager (retired), Adelaide, Australia
Angela Ercole
Angelica Riquelme
Angelika Jahn
Angelika Rehbein
Anke Apt Deutschland, Berlin
Ann Marie Hook,AMMM
Anna Breian Tskhovrebova
Anna Erroufi
Anthony Donovan, Veterans For Peace, Pax Christi International, Catholic Worker, War Resisters League
Anthony Donovan, VFP, PCI, CW, WRL
Anthony Donovan, VFP, CW, PCI,
Antonella Lucchi
Antonio Alfau
Antonio Pérez
April Brown, Co-Founder, Marshallese Educational Initiative, and Professor of History, NWACC
ARAIZA SIERRA HECTOR
Arda Shamshoum Mardirossian, christian
Arno Lohmann, Pfarrer i.R., Bochum, Germany
Art Laffin, Catholic Worker, Pax Christi Teacher of Peace 2016, author of The Risk of the Cross: Living Gospel Nonviolence in the Nuclear Age, co-editor of Swords into Plowshares
Arthur Murphy, LaRouche organizer
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Aziz Islam Retired Geologist/Palynologist
Aziz Islam Retired Geologist/Palynologist
Barbara and Jim Dale, United Methodist Christians
Barbara Fitters /Teacher
Barbara Nicholas SL Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross Nerinx KY
Barbara Reed
Barbara Weissenbacher
Barbro Ingman
Bassel Majzoub
Ben Powys
Benjamin Jones
Benno Zuiddam DTh PhD, ethics VU Amsterdam and North West University.
Bernard Survil, Pax Christi, Olean, NY; Stop Banking the Bomb Pittsburgh
Bernardo Piemonte Italia
Bernd Rohmann
Berndt Karl Horst Weissenbacher
Bettina Röhrig
Birgit Stroh, evangelisch-lutherisch
Bitte setzen Sie sich mit all Ihrer Kraft für eine friedliche Welt ein und rufen zu einem internationalen Friedensgipfel auf. Beate Kittel
Bob Martin, MD, Oakland, CA, US
Bob Van Hee Political Leader in Minnesota, USA USA
Borwin Beer Systemischer Familientherapeut Überlingen, Germany
Brian Watson
Brigitte Gerlinde Ballo
Brigitte Groß-Dölen
Brigitte Püttmann
Bruce Dickson, with Equal.Vote coalition
Buchman
Busy Graham, Alchemy Ballet and Carpe Diem Arts
Carina Eriksson
Carla Floriani, mother and grandmother
Carla Stea, Investigative Journalist, Global Research
CARLOS ALEJOS, SICSAL PERÚ
Carlos Brobjerg, Cook
Carlos Cazalis
Carlos Julio Díaz Lotero Líder social, exdirigente sindical en Colombia
Carlos Olarte
Carol Crossed, Feminists Choosing Life of New York
Carol Gilbert, OP (Dominican Sister Grand Rapids)
Carol Goiburn Back from the Brink Fresno CA
Carol Jahnkow, Director Emerita, Peace Resource Center of San Diego
Carolina Cositore Sitrin, JVP, If Not Now, Code Pink, ANSWER
Caroline Beatriz Vieira
carolyn eisenberg
Carolyn Eisenberg Hofstra University
Catherine Buntin, CoPresident, Chicago Area Peace Action, CAPA
Catherine Cloud
Catherine Daly
Catherine Murphy Minnesota Peace Project
Cathy Smith, SL
CChristine Bierre Editor Nouvelle Solidarité
Cecilia La Pietra OP Sparkill Dominican
Cecily O’Neil
Celerino Montes, Conservation Ecologist.
Charlotte B. Lewis
Charlotte Henriksen
Chris Agee, Executive Editor, CovertAction Magazine
Chris C Christensen
Chris Wheeldon
Christa Reintges
Christian Hoening
Christian Lippmann
Christiane Dulk
Christiane Lindholm
Christine Albertini, Peace Advicate
CHRISTINE CURRIE
Christof Rörig, Freiburg
Christoph Hornetz, citizen of this great planet
Christoph Mohs, Schiller Institute, Germany
Christoph Mohs, Schiller Institute, Germany
Christophe LAMOTTE
Christopher Fogarty (Friends of Irish Freedom)
Christopher Lewis
Christopher thiele – durchschnitts otto mit licht, deutschland, gesegnet und ehrlich für gerechtigkeit
Claude Bezençon FAU
Claudia Bretschneider, Psychotherapist
Claudio Celani, co-editor, EIR Strategic Alert Service
Claudio Mc Connell, member Swedish Peace Committee
Clay Wakeford, South Africa
Clement Tarpey
Cloret Ferguson International Schiller Institute
Colby Shumway, American University Student
Colin McDonald
Constantine Pakavakis, Co-Convenor No AUKUS Coalition Victoria and PEN Melbourne Writers for Peace convenor
Corazon Valdez Fabros, Co-President, International Peace Bureau (1910 Nobel Peace Prize)
craig murray
Cristina Martín Asensio
Cristina Scassellati
Cristina Thompson
Cristóbal Rey Moran
Dan Aquililna
Dane Rogers, Rehumanise UK, Medical Statistician, DPhil in Statistics, University of Oxford
Daniel Burke, Schiller Institute
Daniel Dariush Tanara, CSU Fullerton
Daniel McArdle
Daniel Piñón – analisis geopolítica- militante-humanista-PJ.- Argentina
Daniele Dario Quaglia
Daniele Sberna
Danijela Vujošević
Dany MASSIEUX ex-militaire/aéronavale France
Darin Nellis
Dave Nicholson CPPNW
David Ajetunmobi, Secretary NATA
David Cherry, staff member, Executive Intelligence Review, Washington DC and Leesburg, VA
David Dussault Sgt retired
David Lindemann, EHU University of the Basque Country
David Rous
David Shavin, Schiller Institute
Davide Bolognesi
Debashis De
Declan McKenna Retired nurse, Donegal Ireland
Declan Noonan
Dee Reynolds, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester
Denis Doherty Hiroshima Day Committee Sydney Australia
Dennis Riches, Professor, Seijo University, Tokyo
Diane Perlman, PhD Transcend US
Dianne Bettag, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition
Dieter Quaschnok
Dieter Quaschnok
Dietmar Neumann
Dirk Tröndle
Dolores Reyes
Don DeBar, journalist and analyst, Ossining, NY
Don Dunbar
Donya kh
Dorin Sumalan
Dosier Hammond
Doug Creveling
Douglas Lummis; VFP-ROCK
Dr Alan Broom, Convener Climate and Justice Group, St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Aruna Kammila, Professor & Director, School of Legal Studies, REVA University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Dr Helen Caldicott cofounder Physicians for Social Responsibility 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Dr J Andrés Christen, Mexico
Dr Oumar Sacko , MD. Neurochirurgien au CHU de Toulouse, France
Dr Ross Nicholson Paediatric Cardiologist Auckland NZ
Dr. Andrey Redlich
Dr. David Vine, author “The United States of War”
DR. Eberhard Seifert I like them listed in the appeal
Dr. Gisela Zehner, Zahnärztin
Dr. John Agostinelli, Retired Research Fellow, Rchcester, NY
Dr. Michael David Morrissey
Dr. Misha Misholina, PhD, Managing Director, Asia, and Senior Manager, Executive Go-to-Market Strategy
Dr. Peter Langille
Dr. Ray Pastorino, Earth
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Geisler, Physicist
Dr. Volker Hettler
Dr. Wolfgang Schäper
Dr. Wolfgang Steuer, Conscience and Peace Tax Germany
Dr.med. Hans-Peter Utikal, Herrsching, Germany – Arzt, Psychoanalytiker, Diplomchemiker
Duncan Macintosh, Renfrewshire CND
dylan voisard
E.G.
Earl E. Erland
Ebrahim Hardan
Edgardo Arca – ciudadano argentino por la Paz
Edison Lessa
Edlira Xhafa
Edmilson Gabardo
Eduardo López Guzmán
Edward Curtin, Independent Writer, USA
Elaine Scarry Cabot Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard University
Elisabeth Ahlbäck
Elisabeth Özdalga, former Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Elizabeth Bjerke
Elizabeth Guru
Elizabeth Healy
Elizabeth Kelly
Elizabeth Tascón, citizen of the world
Elke und Matthias Butze aus Dresden wegen großer Sorge um den Weltfrieden
Ellen E Barfield, Veterans For Peace, War Resisters League, Women”s International League for Peace and Freedom
Elliot Benjamin
Elliot Greenspan, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition (USA)
Eloy Jesús Hernández González, Religious Society of Friends
Emil Nicolov
Emil Plic
Eric Pepiciello Quesada
Eric Terclaevers ICAN campaigner
Eric Zuesse
Erik Clayworth
Estelle Voeller, Chair One Sunny Day Initiatives
Ethan Hernandez
Eugenio Escudero
Eugeniu Sofronov
Eva Kuntz, lehrerin für Transzendentale Meditation (TM)
Evelien Snijders
Evelyn Tischer, Pressenza IPA
Evi Bremer
Farrokh Fathi
Father Claude Mostowik msc, President of Pax Christi Australia.
Federico Arrigoni
Federico Chan, MD. Human
Felicity De Motta Lecturer/Peace Activist
Fèmy A.D.D. FAGLA
Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez
Fernando Garzón Orellana. Académico, consultor de las NNUU; expresidente del Comité Ecuatoriano de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Palestino.
FFr. Jim Mathews Pastor of St.Lucy’s Church in Syracuse
Finian Cunningham, Author and Journalist
Floraline
Florence Stratton, Making Peace Vigil
Fr Paul Lansu – Pax Christi International
Frances Buring (Humanitarian)
Francesco Lai
Francis Didion
Francisco Fuenzalida Walker
François Bosc
Frank DeVuono
Frank Dohrmann
Frank Dorrel, Publisher of Addicted To War, Member of Veterans for Peay
Frank Martin
Frederik Esbach
Gabriel Kearns Ground Zero Center for nonviolence
Gabriel Vergara. Miembro movimiento humanista universalista. Québec, Canada
Gabrielle O’KAne
GAOUAOU Youcef
Gašper Zupančič
Gemma Doll Dominican Sisters of Peace
Geoffrey Kern
Georg Keller
George Mutalemwa, Solidarity for Peace and Development (MAMA)
Gerry Yokota, World BEYOND War – Japan
Gert Olefs, co-founder of WhiteGreenBlue, Sustainable You
Gian Guido Folloni
Gian Piero Albrile
Gilles R. Mérier, MD
Ginette Isabel
Giuliano Gramegna
Giulio Francomanno Global Sumud activist
Giuseppe Marino
Glenn Marcus
Graciano Cebeira – España
Graeme Hood
Graeme Hull
Gregor Ophey
Gregory C. Lee
Gregory Parry
Gretchen Aycock
Guilherme Frota
Guillermo Hernandez
Gunilla Wigertz, Unity Party (Enhet)
Gustavo Lanza Castelli (Licenciado en Psicología)
Gustavo Yescas, México.
Guven Cagil Copiague, New York
Hafsat Abiola, Women in Africa
Hall Gardner, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Politics, American University of Paris
Hannah Meyer Sjoeblom
Hannefriedel Meyer-Faude
Hans C van Mameren
Hans H. Siegrist, retired
Hans Zandvliet
Hans-Georg Seidel Male nurse Düsseldorf
Hansjörg Rothe, Leipzig
Harald
Haruko Moritaki Co-representative Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear weapons Abolition(HANWA)
Hatem Soua, a concerned father of two.
Heiko Haase, Frieden ist ein Gebot der Vernunft
Heinrich Buecker, Anti-War Cafe Berlin
Heinrich Klössler Rentner
Heinz Stobe
Helen Russell human being
Helene + Dr. Ansgar Klein, NATO is preparing war against Russia
Helge Suess
Helmut Rümke
Henry Baldelomar Chávez, Ex-Encarcargado de Negocios de la Embajada de Bolivia en los EE.UU, Docente Universitario.
Henry Söderström
Herbert Weß
Hilary Ziols, member Evangelical Church in America
Holger Kalweit, Father
Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., Canada
Hope Bless
Hossein Hardan
Hugo Alves
Ian Boreham
Ian Crooks
Ibnar Stratibus, Intentional Peer Support
Ilinca Lucia Mihalca
Ilko Dimov
Inga Palme
Ingar Evje
Ingeborg Hanson
Inka Dote Cuevas
IRA LIEBOWITZ, EDUCATOR
Isabelle Monconduit French citizen
ISMAEL MONGE, INSTITUTO SCHILLER MÉXICO
Itziar Bilbao Bilbao (Doctora en Psicología)
Iván Méndez
Ivana Rihter
Ivett Husveth
J.A. Diaz
Jacques Cheminade, President, Solidarite et Progres (French political party); three times candidate for French President
Jakob Willerström, Uppsala University, Sweden
James Flaherty
James Stamps, Retired Pilot, FAA,
Jan Malte Böhm
jan weber fritsbøger
Jane Christenson Worker’s Strike Back – Member
Jane Coc
Jane Swanson, President, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
Jane Swanson, President, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
Janice Lee Jayes, Illinois State University
Janice Sevre-Duszynska
Janna Wittenberg, Chair, Loretto Peace Committee
Janosch Rosenberg Germany
Jarle Hovland
Javier Aguiar
Javier Garralon Huete
Jean Richard Louis
Jean Stevens, Warheads to Windmills Coalition
Jean-Baptiste Debiais
Jean-François Boulanger
Jean-Luc Fontaine. Je souscris à cet appel.
Jean-Sébastien Joubert
Jeanne Hodgkiss
Jeff Ewener, retired from advertising
Jennifer Eland
Jenny Muda
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Jesus Bartolome Miranda – Pale Blue Dot Peace Project
Jette Fergo
Jhonny Alexander Londoño Betancur
Jim Mulherin, PhD, UCSC
Jim Reid
Jim Wohlgemuth, Veterans for Peace, Hector Black Chapter
Jivko Kozarov
Joachim Fisch. – Frieden für Alles und Alle auf der Erde ist das wichtigste Gut, welches wir anstreben sollten, nicht Kriege!
Joachim Stommel
Joan Spero, Loretto Community
Joan Tascon Henao
Joan Tierney
Joan Tirak, Pax Christi Michigan, PCUSA Ambassador of Peace
Joan Ventura Codinas
Joaquín Izquierdo
Jochen Steuber
Jody Eisemann, L.Ac., mother, USA citizen
Johann Lenkait
John Healy, musician
John Kirsch, human being
John Laws
John M Kelly
John Raby, board member, Peace Action Maine
John Rachel, Director of the Peace Dividend Project
John Steinbach: Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Ares
John Warburton
Johnny Baltzersen, chairperson, CICED-Global Solidarity, Denmark
Jon Koriagin
Jon Mitchell, Environmental journalist and author
Jonathan Gaynor
Jonathan Thron, Schiller-Institute Germany & BüSo
Jörg Sitzenstock
Jorge Eduardo Paganini
Jose Armando Delgado Alvarez
José Costa
Josep M. Reichardt
Joseph Carson, President, Affiliation of Christian Engineers
Joseph Essertier, Coordinator, Japan chapter of World BEYOND War
Joseph Michael Clifford
Joseph P. Woolslayer
Josh Diamond- antiwar and animal rights advocate
Joyce Caulfield, OP
Joyce Hall, Coordinator Pax Christi Dallas TX and PAX Christi TX Board
Juan Gómez Mundo sin guerras y sin violencia
Jude Iam, Elder American
Judith Arnold, President, New Jersey Peace Action Education Fund
Judith Ehrlich
Judith Ehrlich, filmmaker, “An Ordinary Reality-Daniel Ellsberg on the Threat of Nuclear War”
Julia Ribas
Julia Smucker, board member, Consistent Life Network
julian wallach
Juliana Grell
Julie Prendiville, University of British Columbia
Jure Filip Brzović Juvan
Jürgen Karres
Jürgen Peters
Justin Fischer
Justin Girves
Kai Büttner
Kalisa Beagle, MA, French language instructor and Credentialed preschool teacher.
Karel Vereycken, painter-engraver, France.
Karen Hoover MD
Karen Lyons
Karen Nafziger, Schiller Institute
Karen Nafziger, Schiller Institute
Karin Moergelin, Writer supporting peace
Karin Utas Carlsson PhD Peace education
Karina Mc Conell, catholic
Karina Murtha
Karsten Kunkel
Katharina Scholer : Frieden ist die einzige Lösung!!!
Katherine Pomeroy
Kathleen Nolan, OP
Kathleen Temple, Mennonite Action, Peace Praxis, and many other peace groups
Kathleen Temple, volunteer with Peace Bits (KathleenTemple.wordpress.com)
Kathy Dervin, MPH
Katia Mazzau English high school teacher, mother and wife
Kay Barnes, former Catholic journalist
Ken Jones, Witness Against Empire
Kenneth Biegel
Kent Magnusson
Kentaro Abe, Citizen in Japan, Member of Citizens’ Network for Evacuation From Radiation
Kerstin Olofsson
Kevin Anton
Kevin McKay-Carroll
Kim Klein, Loretto Link Board
Kim Sofo
Kit Larsen Hughes
Kjell Uwe Gutschmidt, physician, Berlin
Klaartje Kaptein
Klaus Fauser
Klaus Fimmen, vice chairman Buergerrechtsbewegung Solidaritaet
Klaus Stedem
Klaus-Jürgen Korcz
Kobo Inamura, Special Fellow, Okazaki Institute
Kore Linnerud, father
Kostas Vassiliadis former Chairman/CEO STASY SA
Lance Smith One Love Sangha
Lark Kerr, concerned citizen
Larry Erickson
Laszlo Czifra, traveler
Laura Bottaro I’m an artist and I believe in Peace because it’s the only way for survive in this Earth
Laurence Rebello
Laurent F. Gilbert, Sr. Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights, Partners For Palestine -Florida, Veterans For Peace, Mayors For Peace, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Le Ly Hayslip, Founder Global Village Foundation
Lea Launokari
Lee Ann Swarm, Board President, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Leigh Watson Healy
Leila Black, Pediatric Nurse
Lena Eriksson
Lenore Sanders, International Peace Coalition of the Schiller Institute
Leo Palmer (University of Cambridge)
letizia Musiari
Lewis Pitts, Retired Movement Lawyer
Liam Prendergast
Lieng Hua
Lieselot Nijhuis
Ligia Mello
Liliana Gorini, chairwoman of Movisol, Italy
Linda Arkert. ANESW South Africa
Linda Deborah Healy, “A Peopled-Garden” podcast
Lindokuhle Sibiya – Eswatini Youth and Women for Change
Lois Eichman, Project Radical Hospitality
Lois Kerschen, Consistent Life Network
Lois Kerschen, Consistent Life Network president
Lotte Johansson, partiet MoD Mänskliga rättigheter och Demokrati
Luc Trudel
Lucía Martín Moreno
Lucien Möschinger
Lucila Amiel Marcora, world citizen.
Lucy Duff, member of Peace Action
Lylian del Mar Labarca León, Human being on Planet Earth
M.Vittoria Rampinelli, docente di scuola secondaria, indipendente
Maarten de Wind
Macela Carmo dos Santos
Madeleine Murphy, NJ, USA
Madelief Nijhuis
Maeeda Kenaya
Mag. Andreas Paul, IFOR Austria
Magnar Husby
Magnar JOhansson
Maite Alepuz
MALOV Valerij
Manfred Matt
Manfred Muller Engineer
Manfred Obererlacher
Mani Kang
Manuel Haegler, Entrepreneur
Manuela Ribera Perez
Marc Winniczek, economics teacher
Marco Trelles
Marcos Campos
Margaret Jarvis, Canada
Margareta Ingelstam Sweden
Margareta Ingelstam, Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliationiliation of Reconceconciliation, econc
Margarete Valladares
Margarita Campos
Maria Beatrice Bisortole
María Cristina Vignoles, religiosa
Maria Orlandini OSF – Director of Advocacy at Franciscan Action Network
Maria Pia Lessi
Maria Rory A MOjica SJB (ST John the Baptist) SodalitySodality
Maria Trignano
Maria Zazzaro Architetto e Docente liceale MIM
MARIAN HANKINS
Marian Ronan, Ph.D. Research Professor of Catholic Studies,, New York Theological Seminary (Retired)
Mariand Steve
Mariarosa Villa
Marie Dennis, Past Co-President, Pax Christi International
Marie Mechtild Gillissen, Pax Christi, Deutschland
Mario Lopes dos Santos
Mario Lopes dos Santos EU official
Marion Hilger
Mariusz Mikołajewski człowiek
Mariya Kosturska
Mark Ivison
Marlene R Tendler
Martha Rollins Consultant International Projects
Martin Seith-Böhm, Musiker und Pädagoge
Mary Ann McGivern, Sister of Loretto
Mary Dickson, survivor of nuclear weapons testing
Mary Jane Freeman, Schiller Institute organizer & EIR staff
Mary Lou Pierron Loretto Community Comember
Mary Pat Beatty, O.P. Pax Christi West Michigan
Mary Ryan-Hotchkiss
Maryam Afkarian
Marylia Kelley, Senior Advisor, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, Livermore, CA
Mateo Alajarin, profesor emérito de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Murcia, España
Mateo Javier Alajarín Huertas
Mathieu Bissonnette
Mats Lönnerblad
Mats Öhlin, Retired Educator, Sweden
Matt Sullivan, Pleasantonians for Peace
Matteo Cherchi, Human being
Matthew J. Schimpf (citizen of planet Earth)
Matthias Huber; Atheist
Mattias Forsgren, Dissidentklubben (Dissident Club Sweden)
Maximilian lFrantz
Meinrad Odermatt, Zug, Switzerland
Melvin Hardy | The Carter School for Peace at George Mason University | The Washington Interfaith Staff Community
Mercy Kurian
Michael Ender Parishioners St Albert – St Philip Neri Church Alameda CA
Michael G. Peña
Michael Knoch, Berlin, Germany
Michael Lanahan
Michael Leppig, Schiller Institute
Michael Parker
Michael Wineberg
Michele
Michele Di Paolantonio, AIMPGN, Italian Affiliate of IPPNW, 1985 Nobel Peace Prized Organization
Mika Litwora
Mikael Kallavuo, freelance journalist, Finland
Mikael Porath, peaceactivist, organic farmer, devout catholic father of four children
Mike Ferner, former national president, Veterans For Peace
Mike McVicar, BS & MS, Cinema Television and Media Production, Filmmaker and Citizen of Lawrence, Kansas.
Mikk Arro, citizen of the world
Milica Züfle
Mim, Istituto Salvemini-duca d’Aosta, Fitenze, Italy
Miriam Elliott, Member of Emmanuel Mennonite Church, Gainesville, FL
Mitchie Takeuchi Not Just A Survivor Film
Mohsen, Nourani Vatani
Mohsen, Nourani Vatavi
Mong Yuen
Monika Blanke
Monika Blanke
Monika Matthias
Morteza Rasaei
Muhammad Shahzad Yousaf PhD Candidate in Development Studies at University of International Business and Economics Beijing PR China
Nadia Schlüter-Paulssen
Name: Bamalum Buji Mustapha; Affiliation: Founder and CEO – Hyrax Investment Company Limited
Nancy Davis Disciples of Christ
Nancy Hollo
Nancy Lee
Nancy Mahoney
Nancy-Jo Taiani
Naoko Shibusawa, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Naomi Forrester
Nara Ambroso – I don’t have any affiliation – Brazil
Nara Ane Ambroso – Source Temple Sanctuary Brazil
Nathalie ORTIZ
Navid Nourani Vatani
Nelson Guedes
nelson macedo
Nick Lydall, former ECC, YCC member South Africa
Nick Mottern – Ban Killer Drones
Nickola Klössler Rentnerin
Nicola Watson
Nicolas Ortiz, violinist and composer
Niels Harrit, Associate Professor (ret.), Dept. Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nikita Shalimov (NTV Russian television)
Nina Westgard
Norma Di Benedetto Argentina discipula de Francisco
Octavian Renea
Odile Hugonot Haber (WILPFUS and Megiddo Peace Project)
Olaf Sammler
Olaf Wittchen, Pfarrer
Olivier Patrick
Oscar Haffmans — Founder Ministry of Democratic Affairs — The Netherlands
Otto Stiegler
Palle Bendsen, NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark (ICAN Partner) & Forbyd Atomvåben – ICAN in Denmark (Ban Nuclear Weapons)k
PAOLO SBERNA
Paschal Preston, Prof. Emeritus, Dublin City University
Pat Elder, Military Poisons
Patric Gorrebeeck, voorzitter van de werkgroep ” Vrede in de Wereld ” te Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Patricia moreno Manzo
Patricia Schur
Patrick Bruns
Patrick Goubau, member Grands Parents pour le climat
Patrick Guéret, Engr.
Patrick Henry
Patrick Wyss, former business owner
Patrik Hidefjäll
Paul Aarts
Paul Dieter Scharpf
paul frazier
Paul Otero, Member of the human species
Paulette Peterson Loretto Link
Paulina Havilček, the mother, wife and concerned Citizen of the world.
Pauline Seales Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
Paulo Mateus
PCAN by Peter Metz, Chair, Pax Christi New England Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (PCAN)
Peggy McPartland
Peggy Steckler, human
Pere Maragall Professor of Catalan Language
Pernille Grumme, Actress, Peace/Truth-activist
Peter Schwarz, Governor of the Age of Enlightenment
Peter Baumann
Peter Bergel, Treasurer, Oregon PeaceWorks
Peter Celle
Peter Cooke
Peter Egelkraut
Peter Griffin, Pax Christi New South Wales
Peter Jahn
Peter Koch
Peter O. Childs HUMAN RACE
Peter Stepaniuk
Peter Whitehead
Peter Wilson
Petr Dann
Petter Boberg
Phil Eagleton, Constitutional American
Phil Runkel. Archivist Emeritus, Marquette University
Philibert Bretonvilliers
Philip Ulanowsky, artist, Schiller Institute
Philippe Cartalas
Pierre Fidelia PaxChristi Metro New York Board President
Pilar Soledispa
Pozuelo González Carolina
Prof Dr Rolf Schäfer
Prof Dr. Asomba Tobias, Founding Director of Christian Community Health Care Foundation (COHECF Int’l)
Prof. Dr. Karl Cammann University of Muenster
Professor (Dr) Anoop Swarup, Chairman Centre for Global Nonkilling
Raddington2
Radek Tauchman, Adhesives Bonding Technology consultant, Czech Republic
Radek Tauchman, Industrial Adhesives and Bonding Technology consultant
Rafael Alejandro
Raffaella Trebbi
Rainer Sandau
Ramon medico
Rashid Jussa, World citizen
Raymond Becker – Friddens- a Solidaritéitsplattform Lëtzebuerg
Regina Sneed Life Member Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Regine Laaser – Teacher
Regula Hagmann
Reinhard Wagner German author, journalist and photographer
Renate Geiser MD
Renate Schoof, Author
Reto Mettauer
Rev. Deepak Mammen Babu
Rev. Jasmine Smart, Presbyterian Church (USA)
Rev. Jorgen U Bengtsson, Church of Sweden
Reverend Debbie Blane, PC(USA).
Ricardo Galán Sierra
Rich Van Dellen –retired physician, Rochester,MN
Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor Emeritus, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor Emeritus, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Geroge Mason University
Richard Jarvis
Richard McCaughan
Richard rosen, former president, Tempro Decelopment Co. inc., temple sinai, rochester, ny
Richard Strange Jedi 1st Earth Battalion, New Earth Army
Rick Hines No affiliation. Just concerned citizen
Rick Staggenborg, MD President, Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter
Rick Staggenborg, MD President, Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter
Robert Bowen, Owner, Bowen Associates
Robert Gould, MD; San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility
Robert McCormick, Asylum Law, Criminal Defense, Natural Resource Law/Documentary Filmmaker – Asylum Chronicles, Owener ProteusNMFrontera Film Production in Santa Fe and Blanco NM
Robert Preti, Deeply Concerned Human
Robert Scheer, Clinical Professor, Annenberg School for Communicatio and Journalism, University of Southern California
robert tomas
Robert Wright
Roberto Vela Pinedo Presidente de la Red de Integracion Amazonica
Robin Lloyd, Vermont WILPF
Rodney Kooney
Roger Peace, U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide initiator and coordinator
Roland Saher, SCCAN
Roland Van Deusen, Navy veteran, VA volunteer in suicide prevention, member Veterans For Peace.
Roland Weber, Oekumenische Initiative Eine Welt https://erdcharta.de/verein-oeiew/
Rommel, Jürgen, Berlin 14050
Ronald Bettag Schiller Institute / International Peace Coalition, Houston,Tx, USA
Rosemarie Pace, Pax Christi New York State
ross clady
Rüdiger Schneider
Saint Cloment Hervé
Sait Fatih Alagoz
Sally N Smith
Salvador Martín Moreno
Samir Boudali
Samuel Albert
Samuel Luján
Sandra Barbosa
SANDRA DI BONIFACIO, insegnante di Lettere all’Istituto Tecnico per il Turismo “Livia Bottardi” di Roma, Italia
Sandra Haigh
Sandra Litz
Sara Ferizovic
Sara Natoli
Sarah Phillips
Sarah Terzo, Board Member, Consistent Life Network
Savita Ramdev
Scott Harper
Sean English Lex Innocentium 21st Century
Sean Nowak, Berlin, Germany
Sebastian Kirsch, MD, Switzerland
Sergio Capraro
Shad Marsh
SHARON GADBERRY
SHARON RAJKUMAR
Sheila Marie Tobbe, osu
Sherwin Dadman
Silvia Secchi
Simone Casu – Messaggio di Silo
Simonetta Noè
Sister Carol Stenger, CDP; Sisters of Divine Providence, Pittsburgh, PA 15101
Sister Eileen Gannon ,OP
Slobodan Glumac, Canadian citizen
Sonja Zens
Sören Almkvist, Sweden
Sosher S
Spencer Ramsey, Roman Catholic. But most importantly, a man who wants a future.
Sr. Marie Buckley Sparkill Dominican Sisters
Sr. Mary E. 9Buffy) Boesen, SL POresident Sisters of Loiretto and Loretto Community. Participated in 1986 “Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament” across the united States
Sr. Peggy McPartland
Stefan Laug, international artist
Stefanie Nesse a private individual
Stefano Braccini
Stefano Macchi, no affiliation
Stephen Brawer Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden
Steve Kaylor, candidate for NY State Senate in 1986.
Steven Creve, PhD, MBA
Steven Starr, Associate, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Stijn Rubens, Practical Philosopher
Stuart Lewis
Stuart Tiller St Matthews Church. Auckland,
sue y, lee, Professor emerita Biological Sciences Cal Poly Humboldt
Suquet Brigitte
Susan Boyd
Susan Cartwright Australian and US citizen.
Susan Cavalieri
Susan Keeny
Susan Silva Parishioner St. Albert the Great – St Philip Neri Church Alameda, Ca
Susan Strickler, Director of the documentary, The Vow From Hiroshima
Susanne Vogt, Dipl. Mathematician, Germany
Susie Mechesney
Suzan Karim
Svein Øivind Solberg, professor, University of Inland Norway
Sylvia Demarest Retired Trial Lawyer and Substack writer.
T. Herbert Dimmock, Founder and Director of “Bach in Baltimore”
Tad Barnes American Citizen
Taffy Williams
Tal Ariel
Tanya m cheadle
Tatjana Zdanoka, Dr.Math., former Member of the European Parliament, Latvia
Teresa Barnes-Matych, mere retired Scientist and Science Teacher
Teresa Miarnau
Thabo Khoboko
Thala Juul Holm
The nuclear bomb is something we would like NOT to have invented. My prayers to You and Your ability to do the right thing. Eric Kuijper
Theodore Ringelheim retired educator Alexandria VA
Thomas Boucher, Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Rutgers University, Veterans for Peace and Peace Action
Thomas Getman, and former senior aide to Senator Mark Hatfield, Cmdr of Naval Assessment to Hiroshima, and co-sponsor of Nuclear Freeze Campaign
Thomas Jerchel
Thomas L. Knapp, Director, William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism
Thomas Larsson, Engineer
Thomas Schur
Thor Holt
Thulfiqar Ali
Timothy Havel, Retired Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timur Pulatov
Todd Millikan – Unaffiliated
Toilliez Christophe
Tom Sauer, Professor International Politics, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Tonia Shimin Professor Emerita of Dance, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tony Jenkins. Managing Director, International Institute on Peace Education. Coordinator, Global Campaign for Peace Education.
Tore B Aanonsen – Norway
Torsten Merkel, retired teacher of mathematics and physics in Germany.
Tristan Le Gallois
Tupac Aragón
Ulf Sandmark Chairman Schiller Institute in Sweden
Ulrich Leonhardt
Ulrich Zeidler
Urs Wagen
Ursula Mathern
Uta Schumann
Ute Kleber
Uwe Hostmann, Berlin
UWE WERRNER SCHIERHORN
Valentine M. Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston
Vanya Smythe, Gnostic Society, New Zealand
Victor Diez
Victor Newking Garpulee, International Coalition of Peace and Euphrates Peace Practice Network of Liberia
Virginia Garcia-Bunuel, Citizen of the World
Vojtěch Balský, human
Volker Schulz
Vyron Lymberopoulos Airline Captain (retired)
Walt Kochirka
Wayne KELLY
Webb Sobolik – Seconds ’til Sunrise
Wendy Evans Lothe, retired orthoptist
Willa Bickham and Brendan Walsh
William Ferguson, Schiller Institute
William J. Astore, Lt Col, USAF (Ret.)
William Milne
Willie Vázquez
Wolfgang Bittner, Author
Wolfgang Lieberknecht, Wanfried, Deutschland, International FriedensFabrik (IFFW)e
Wolfgang Pluschke
Yakov Rabkin, Emeritus Professor of History. Université de Montréal
Yasumi Murata
Yolanda Miarnau
Yoshimichi Ota, retiree
Yuli Henao; Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Akron; Ohio
Yuri Pantioukhin, Business Owner
Yuri Pantioukhin, Business owner
Zintis Buls, novice researcher of geopolitics
Zoran Major, concerned citizen
Ειρήνη Δασκαλάκη

On Sept. 4, the Executive Intelligence Review and the International Peace Coalition will hold a roundtable discussion on “An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas,” which will be streamed live on YouTube in English, and broadcast on Zoom with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, German, French and Italian.

What follows is a preliminary list of speakers and topics:

Panel 1: 11:00 – 1:00

1.  Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), founder, Schiller Institute: A New International Security and Development Architecture to End War and Looting
2. Roberto Amaral (Brazil), former Minister of Science and Technology in Lula’s first government (2003): The Future of Brazil: Science, Technology, Innovation and Sovereignty
3. Gen. (ret.) Edwin Patterson Monsalve (Peru), Academic and professor of Geopolitics and Geostrategy: Peru’s Chancay Port and South America’s Development and Integration Networks
4. Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. (Brazil), economist who was formerly the Executive Director in the IMF for Brazil and 10 other countries in Washington, DC, as well as co-founder and Vice President of the New Development Bank established by the BRICS: The New Monroe Doctrine and the US Claims to Uncontested Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere
5. Prof. Zhang Weiwei (China), Professor of International Relations at Fudan University in Shanghai: China’s Role in the Development of the Global South
6. Col. (ret.) Pedro Baños (Spain), geopolitical analyst: Why Spain Must Not Join NATO’s War Against Russia and Iran

Panel 2: 1:30 – 3:30

1. Dennis Small (U.S.), EIR Ibero-American Director: South America’s Bioceanic Rail Corridor, a Century-Scale Planetary Transformation
2. Donald Ramotar (Guyana), former President of Guyana (2011-2015): A Good Neighbor Policy Among the Nations of South America
3. Sara Madueño de Vásquez (Peru), EIR bureau chief, Lima: The “Chancay Effect” on the Eve of the Pope’s Visit to Peru
4. Estevão Damacena (Brazil), Schiller Institute youth movement: Brazil’s Physical Economic Vulnerabilities and How to Overcome Them  

The following Letter to US Archbishop John Wester to Appeal to Pope Leo XIV to Call for a Peace Conference was sent on July 24, 2026. The Letter was initiated by Jack Gilroy in the International Peace Coalition meeting # 162, July 10, and has been endorsed by many individuals and organizations, expressing great urgent concern about the growing danger of nuclear war. Circulation of the Letter will continue over the coming days to galvanize increasing support for this Appeal.

July 24, 2026

Most Reverend John C. Wester, D.D.

Archdiocese of Santa Fe

Dear Archbishop Wester:

Congratulations on being named Pax Christi USA’s Teacher of Peace for 2026! It is such a well-deserved honor. Ever since your first trip to Japan and your pastoral letter, “Living in the Light of Christ’s Peace: A Conversation toward Nuclear Disarmament,” you have become a leading voice for the abolition of nuclear weapons in the Catholic Church and throughout the U.S. Establishing the “Partnership for a World without Nuclear Weapons” has extended that reach even farther. We are so pleased that you will be receiving this award in the coming months.

As you know, the threat of nuclear war seems to be increasing daily despite the 100 nations that have signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), 75 of whom have also ratified it. This year’s Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference was a disappointment once again. New START was allowed to expire. Russia, the U.S., and Israel, all nuclear states, are at war. Finland’s president recently signed legislation to allow the import and transit of nuclear weapons. And Lithuanian leaders are said to have agreed to amend the constitution to allow Lithuania to host nuclear weapons in the future.

In short, we are getting as close to nuclear war as we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. That crisis ended with diplomacy that saved the planet, and Pope John XXIII was a key figure in making that happen. His influential role is not well known, but it was he who spoke out to set the needed moral tone that helped each side to act for peace.

This is how it developed: In fall 1962, Journalist Norman Cousins convened in Andover, Massachusetts, an informal discussion group of Soviet and American academicians. Providentially, they met on October 22, the evening Kennedy addressed the nation on the Soviet nuclear missile threat in Cuba and ordered the Navy to intercept any additional shipments.

Included among those invited by Cousins was a Vatican adviser to Pope John XXIII, Rev. Felix Morlion. He asked if a papal intervention might help defuse the situation. Cousins phoned the White House; a Soviet member of the informal group phoned Moscow. Both got a nihil obstat. Fr. Morlion notified the Vatican.

On October 25, Vatican Radio broadcast a strong appeal by Pope John for peace to world leaders, in particular Kennedy and Khrushchev. It stated in part: “With your hand on your conscience may each one hear the anguished cry which is raised to the skies from all parts of the earth: Peace, peace! We renew this solemn plea today.”

Pravda immediately printed the Pope’s message with a banner headline. And on October 28, when Khrushchev announced the pull-out of the missiles from Cuba, Pravda reprinted the Pope’s message, praising the Pope’s “realism on the question of peace.” In turn, the United States withdrew missiles from Turkey. Hundreds of millions gave a sigh of relief, and negotiations between the U.S. and the USSR led to the first nuclear test ban in 1963.

Weeks later, Khrushchev told Cousins how much he admired Pope John, saying: “During that week of the Cuban missile crisis the Pope’s appeal was a real ray of light. I was grateful for it.”

Several years after that, Khrushchev’s son Sergey said that the words of Pope John XXIII were strongly persuasive on the consciences of people, especially those of his father and Kennedy.

With this in mind, we were thinking it might be time for something similar to happen today. Might Pope Leo XIV call for a Peace Conference to withdraw nuclear weapons from the Russian border and call for the abolition of nuclear weapons worldwide? He already suggested something along these lines at the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he prayed that those bombings would “serve as a call to the international community to renew its commitment to pursuing lasting peace for our whole human family — ‘a peace that is unarmed and disarming’” Perhaps the Vatican or another neutral location such as Vienna or Geneva could be the venue.

Would you be able to help bring this recommendation to Pope Leo? We believe you, as a strong and highly-respected advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons, would be the ideal diplomat to encourage Pope Leo to bring Heads of State Putin, Trump, and Xi Jinping together to plan an end to nuclear weapons and to pave a new road of economic conversion from a war economy to economic development for all people everywhere. Your intercession and the strong leadership of Pope Leo could move us away from the sheer madness we are now experiencing.

Sincerely,

Jack Gilroy, Pax Christi New York State Council; Veterans For Peace;
Ban Killer Drones; International Peace Coalition of the Schiller Institute

Rosemarie Pace, Ed.D., PCNYS Coordinator; USA Palestine Solidarity Working Group; Pax Christi International Sudan Working Group

In collaboration with The Pax Christi New York State Council

Pax Christi USA (PCUSA) Teacher of Peace Honorees who have endorsed this letter: (See more on these in the complete listing of endorsements below.)

• James V. Albertini (2010)
• Roy Bourgeois (1997)
• Marie Dennis (2022)
• James W. Douglass (1994)
• Kathy Kelly (1998)
• William P. Quigley (2003)
• Martin Sheen (1999)

Endorsements as of August 9, 2026:

• Maurizio Abbate, Chairman of ENAC – National Institute for Cultural Activities, Italy
• Akbar Ahmed, Distinguished Professor, American University, Washington D.C., Former Pakistani Diplomat
• Muhammad Salim Akhtar,  National Director American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections
• Jim Albertini, PCUSA Teacher of Peace, 2010
• Dr. Abdullah al-Ahsan, Professor of Comparative Civilization; former Vice President of JUST International, Movement for a Just World
• All Saints Parish, Syracuse, New York
  –> Fr. Fred Daley, Pastor
  –> Meg Ksander, Pastoral Associate
• Missy Androu, St Anthony Church Solidarity Community
• Syed Azhar, National Director, Pakistani American Democratic Forum
• Dr. Abdoulaye Balde,  United States,  Founding member Futa Islamic Center, New York
• Karen Ball, Board Member, Pax Christi Texas, San Antonio Chapter
• Roger C. Barnes, Professor Emeritus, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
• Franco Battaglia, President of Chemical Physics, University of Moderna, founder, Italy
• Anastasia Battle, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition Co-Initiator
• William O. Beeman, Professor Emeritus and Former Chair of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
• Carolyn Bentley, Pax Christi Dallas, TX & Dallas, TX Peace and Justice Center
• Guus Berkhout, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Delft University of Technology; Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Science; ECD Ambassador, CLINTEL founder
• Ronald Bettag, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition, Texas USA
• Fr. Roy Bourgeois, PCUSA Teacher of Peace 1997
• Kathy Boylan, Catholic Worker, Washington D.C.
• Fr. Harry Bury, Twin Cities Nonviolent, Author. Member of U.S. Catholic Priests Association
• Ken Butigan, Co-Director, The Catholic Institute for Nonviolence (DePaul University, Chicago)
• Right Reverend John Bryson Chane D.D., 8th Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Washington D.C.
• Fr. Daniel Clayton, Priest of the Diocese of Dallas, TX
• Catherine Clubb Foley, Pax Christi Houston, TX Member
• James C. Cobey, Founder, Health Volunteers Overseas; Steering Committee, Voices From the Holy Land; Shared 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as part of work with Physicians for Humanity
• Jay Coghlan, Executive Director, Nuclear Watch, New Mexico
• Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Dean, People’s Academy of International Law
• Gerry Condon, Facilitator, Nuclear Abolition Working Group of Veterans for Peace
• M. Phyllis Cunningham, Pax Christi, Metro New York
• Bob Cushing, A Founding Father of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests
• Dr. Thomas Clough Daffern, Director, International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy
• Arthur Dawes, Pax Christi Texas Board President & the full Texas Pax Christi Chapter
• Fr. John Dear, “Beatitude Center for the Nonviolent Jesus” & “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast”
• Pat Delgado, Pax Christi El Paso Coordinator & Pax Christi Texas Board Member
• Sylvia Demarest, Retired Lawyer and Substack writer
• Marie Dennis, Pax Christi USA (PCUSA) Teacher of Peace 2022, Ambassador of Peace, & Senior Program Director of Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative
• Joan Dolan, Pax Christi Texas
• Jim Douglass, PCUSA Teacher of Peace 1994, author
• Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, U.S., Islamic House of Wisdom, Dearborn Heights, MI
• Joseph Essertier, Associate Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Joseph Fahey, Co-founder & Former General Secretary of PCUSA
• Professor Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University; Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories; Vice President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• Mike Ferner, Former national president, Veterans For Peace
• Norma Field, Professor Emerita, University of Chicago (Home of the Fermi Experiment)
• Jill Frasier, Pax Christi Metro New York Board Member
• Chrisopher Fogarty, President of Friends of Irish Freedom Chicago
• Hiroshi Fujimoto, Research Fellow, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University (Japan)
• Rev. David Gerlich, Honolulu, Hawaii, author of Jesus Christ He Still Matters
• Paul Gessler, Veterans for Peace, Ft. Collins, Colorado
• Sr. Carol Gilbert, Dominican Sister and Plow Shares activist
• Liliani Gorini, Chairwoman of Movisol, Italy
• Clare Grady, Plowshares Activist
• Elliot Greenspan, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition, New Jersey USA
• Claudio Guidici, Chairman of Uritaxi – Taxi drivers trade union
• Joyce Hall, Pax Christi Dallas, TX Coordinator & Member of the Pax Christi TX Board
• Rick Halperin, Director, Southern Methodist University Human Rights program
• Jaap Hanekamp, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Utrecht University of the Netherlands
• Jovita Harrah, Pax Christi Northern California
• Leslie Harris, CODEPINK; Veterans For Peace; Dallas Peace and Justice Center  
• Fr John Heagle, Director of Priests Against Genocide
• Johannes Heibel, Peace Activist, Germany
• Ira Helfand, Former President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; Co-founder Back from the Brink
• Bernie Holland, United for Peace, UK
• Saskia Hostetler, Anti-war activist, technology harm advocate – Portland, Oregon, USA
• Ivana Nikolic Hughes, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry at Columbia University
• Vic Hummert, Former Maryknoll Priest and Author
• Wally Ingle, Pax Christi Hawaii
• Hadi Jawad, Human Rights Dallas, TX
• Frank Kartheiser, Catholic Workers Movement, MA, USA
• Professor Yoshiyuki Kato, Rikkyu University, Japan
• Tarak Kauff, New York Member of Veterans For Peace; Editor: Peace & Planet New
• Kathy Kelly, PCUSA Teacher of Peace 1998
• Sr. Martha Ann Kirk, Th.D., University of the Incarnate Word
• Dennis Kucinich, Former Mayor of Cleveland and Former U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Jonathan Kuttab, Executive Director, Friends of Sabeel North America
• Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, Washington, D.C.
• Yuba Nath Lamsal, Former Nepal Ambassador to Denmark; with concurrent accreditation to Norway, Sweden, Finland and Lithuania, May 2017 to June 2021; a 30-plus years career in journalism, as editor of The Rising Nepal daily. An ardent opponent of nuclear weapons
• Helga Zepp LaRouche, Founder, Schiller Institute, and Initiator of the International Peace Coalition
• Kees le Pair, Assistant Professor American University Beirut, Lebanon; National Science Foundation, Wash. D.C.; research with Philips, Siemens; science advisor – Netherlands
• Nydia Leaf, Pax Christi, Metro New York Member
•  Dr. Richard G. Linowes, President, Clarewood University, Reston, VA
• Jeff Mason, Pax Christi Quad Cities, USA
• Gavan McCormack, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
• Raymond McGovern, Former CIA Analyst, Current Peace Activist
• Evalee Mickey, Peace activist, North Liberty, Louisiana, USA
• Josef Miklosko, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic; former Ambassador of the Slovak Republic in Italy, San Marino, and Malta; former secretary of the commission of the Conference of Bishops of Slovakia: Justice and Peace
• Carlo Levi Minzi, Pianist, Italy
• Claudia Morgan, Pax Christi Texas Board
• Nick Mottern, Coordinator-Ban Killer Drones and the Weaponized Drone Ban Treaty Campaign
• Muslim Democratic Caucus c/o President Amir Rahmam
• Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Director, Peace Philosophy Centre; Editor, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
• Nancy Oetter, Regional Coordinator, Pax Christi Illinois
• Melissa Parke, Executive Director International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) 
• Johanna Parkinson, Dallas Area Interfaith
• Margaret M. Power, President, Historians for Peace and Democracy (USA)
• Pax Christi Little Rock, Arkansas

• Pax Christi Metro New York Board
• Pax Christi New York State Council: John Amidon, Ben Salmon Chapter Pax Christi Upstate New York; Veteran For Peace; Co-Founder Kateri Peace Conference; Tom Casey, Pax Christi Western New York; Pierre Fidelia, Pax Christi Metro New York Board President; Bob Keeler, Pax Christi Long Island; Ed Kubik, Pax Christi Long Island; Mary Beth Moore, SC, Pax Christi Long Island; Mark Scibilia-Carver, Ben Salmon Chapter Pax Christi Upstate New York
• Lorin Peters, Pax Christi Moderator of the Northern California Chapter, Pax Christi U.S. Disarmament Working Group
• Bill Quigley, Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace 200; Emeritus Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana
• Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus, Brown University, Veteran, U.S. Army
• Judith Robinson, Retired Russia Desk Officer for USAID, Dept. of Commerce BISNIS Unit, & State Department Education & Transportation USA
• Paz Rosales, RSCJ, Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Spain
• Jean Ross, Vote Climate Board Chair
• Alessia Ruggeri, Trade unionist, Italy
• Susan Schnall, President Veterans for Peace USA
• Meinrad Schneckenleithner, former Vice-President Pax Christi Austria
• E. Martin Schotz, MD, author and active advocate for peace and nuclear disarmament
• Martin Sheen, Actor & Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace 1999
• Aftab Siddiqui, President, Dallas, TX Peace and Justice Center
• Martin Sieff, Former Chief Political Correspondent, United Press International, Three time Pulitzer Prize Nominee
• Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus — Province of Venezuela Provincial,
  Sister Fernanda Vacas Navarro, RSCJ
  Sister Emilia M. Martinez Rivas, RSCJ
• Alice Slater, World Beyond War
• Rev Robert Smith, Pastor, New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, MI; and Founder Haiti Mission Alliance
• Fr. Martin Solma, SM – Kalaepohaku Marianist Coummunity, Honolulu, Hi
• St Lucy’s Catholic Church, Syracuse NY, Fr Jim Mathews, Pastor; Margot Goldsmith, Pastoral Assistant; Corinne Driscoll, Chair of Justice & Peace Committee 
• John Steinbach, Coordinator, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee-North Capitol Area, Washington, D.C.
• Elaine Sullivan, M.Ed., LPC; LMFT, Counselor; former Benedictine Nun, Dallas, TX 
• Fr. Bernard Survil, U.S. Catholic Priests Association
• Alice Sutter, Raging Grannies NYC
• David Swanson, Executive Director of World Beyond War
• Diane Swords, Syracuse Peace Council
• Br. Terence J Taffe, Cap., MA, LMSW. Province of St Mary, Capuchin Order
• Takao Takahara, Professor, and former Director of International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
• Fr. Tim Taugher, Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Binghamton, NY
• Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference
• Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Future
• Chris Todhunter,  Teacher, The School of Philosophy and Economics Science in London, author
• Dr. Mohammad A. Toor, Chairman of Board of Trustees Pakistani American Congress; President, American Pakistani Physicians for Justice & Democracy; Chairman of American Muslim Alliance
• Regis Tremblay, Crimea, Director “Thirty Seconds to Midnight”
• Patricia Tweedy, Pax Christi Metro New York Board
• Veterans for Peace Chapter 10, Albany NY
• Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), Former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of State
• Jim Wohlgemuth, Veterans For Peace Coordinator of the Hector Black Chapter – Nashville, TN
• Ann Wright, Retired Colonel, US Army, and Diplomat; author, Dissent: Voices of Conscience; Whistleblower; Board of Directors, CODEPINK
• Zool Zulkowitz, New York Directors Guild of America; Artistic Director, The Rising Together Theater Company; Jewish Voice for Peace; Veterans For Peace

Letter to Archbishop John Wester to Urge Pope Leo XIV to Call a Peace Conference to Stop Nuclear War Signed by Prominent Peace Organizations and Activists

On Friday, July 31, at an online Roundtable Conference, “Solve the Immigration Crisis With Development: The Strategic Significance of Pope Leo’s Encyclical,” sponsored by EIR News Service and the International Peace Coalition, Jack Gilroy, a long-time peace activist with the Pax Christi New York State Council, Veterans for Peace, Ban Killer Drones, and the International Peace Coalition of the Schiller Institute, released the news that he, in collaboration with other leading peace activists, has written a letter to the U.S. Catholic Archbishop John Wester, the strongest advocate in a U.S. Archdiocese working for the banning of nuclear weapons. (Wester’s Santa Fe, New Mexico diocese is the home of Los Alamos.) The letter urges the Archbishop to request that Pope Leo XIV convene an emergency international peace conference with Presidents Putin, Xi, and Trump, to halt the present wars, stop the expansion of nuclear weapons to Russia’s border, and ban nuclear weapons, as we face the greatest threat of nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over 130 prominent peace activists and several leading peace organizations have already signed the letter. 

Gilroy stated at the conference that, in organizing support for the diplomatic initiative called for in this letter, “It’s primarily Pax Christi and the International Peace Coalition that have worked together for the past three weeks to fulfill what the International Peace Coalition is all about: to try to prevent war—nuclear war—and to use development as the alternative, as the answer, to the constant military buildups.”

“All of that is possible”, Gilroy stated, “but we asked, ‘Where are we going to find the answer?’ And we are looking back at history, and we think diplomacy can work, does work. But getting diplomacy started is… extremely difficult.” 

In recounting the history of diplomacy to stop a nuclear war, Gilroy cited the famous case of Pope John XXIII, during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which is detailed in the letter. A trio of concerned citizens—US journalist Norman Cousins, an influential Soviet citizen, and Belgian monk Fr. Felix Morlion—just happened to be discussing the need for nuclear disarmament when President Kennedy announced on national TV a blockade of Cuba in response to the discovery that Soviet missiles had been placed there. With the consent of Kennedy and Khrushchev, Morlion contacted the Pope, to whom he was an advisor, and urged him to help diffuse the crisis, which seemed to be heading toward WWIII.

The Pope agreed and delivered a very stirring message for peace. It stated in part: “With your hand on your conscience may each one hear the anguished cry which is raised to the skies from all parts of the earth: Peace, peace! We renew this solemn plea today.” This poignant cry for peace had a tremendous effect on both Kennedy, the first Catholic president, and Khrushchev, who saw that it was published in full on the front page of Pravda. Khrushchev characterized the speech as “the first ray of real light” during the crisis. Cousins then served as a liaison between Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Pope until the Pope’s death on June 3, 1963. Seven days later, Kennedy delivered his American University commencement address, which was the most powerful and visionary call for peace by a US president in the 20th Century. Cousins had written the first draft, and Kennedy refused to give the Pentagon intelligence community, or the State Department, any say.

As Jack Gilroy states in the letter to Archbishop Wester, “With this in mind, we were thinking it might be time for something similar to happen today.” Pope Leo XIV, he noted, had already suggested something along these lines at the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he prayed that the bombings would ‘serve as a call to the international community to renew its commitment to pursuing lasting peace for our whole human family—a peace that is unarmed and disarming,’ Perhaps the Vatican or another neutral location such as Vienna or Geneva could be the venue.”

Gilroy concludes the letter with this appeal to Archbishop Wester: “Would you be able to help bring this recommendation to Pope Leo? We believe you, as a strong and highly-respected advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons, would be the ideal diplomat to encourage Pope Leo to bring Putin, Trump, and Xi Jinping together to plan an end to nuclear weapons and to pave a new road of economic conversion from a war economy to economic development for all people everywhere. Your intercession and the strong leadership of Pope Leo could move us away from the sheer madness we are now experiencing.”

Jack Gilroy stated in his presentation at the July 31 conference that one of the signers of the letter, Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, Washington, D.C., was the lead speaker at a peace conference in Nagasaki, Japan on July 25, where, before many Japanese public officials, Kuznick brought up the significance of widely circulating this letter internationally. Several Japanese figures have already signed. Kuznick has also discussed this appeal to the Pope in a recent Consortium News webinar, “How Close Are We to Nuclear War?”, with fellow letter signer, Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and Co-Founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), hosted by Consortium News Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria.

As we head into the proverbial “Guns of August,” Gilroy’s letter makes clear that “we are getting as close to nuclear war as we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. That crisis ended with diplomacy that saved the planet, and Pope John XXIII was a key figure in making that happen.” Today, he is calling on prominent figures around the world to urge Pope Leo XIV to play the same role, and he is calling on more peace activists and organizations to sign the letter.

This letter was written in collaboration with the Pax Christi New York State Council, and Rosemarie Pace, Ed.D., PCNYS Coordinator; USA Palestine Solidarity Working Group; Pax Christi International Sudan Working Group.

This is a link to the letter, with the list of signers:

Letter To Archbishop John Wester, To Urge Pope Leo XIV to Call for a Peace Conference

The letter has been endorsed by 7 recipients of the annual Pax Christi USA “Teacher of Peace” Award: Jim Albertini (2010); Roy Bourgeois (1997); Marie Dennis (2022); James W. Douglass (1994); Kathy Kelly (1998); William Quigley (2003) and Martin Sheen (1999). Archbishop Wester is this year’s recipient of the “Teacher of Peace” award.

Some of the many prominent individuals endorsing the letter include: Professor Richard Falk; Ira Helfand; Professor Peter Kuznick; former US Congressman Dennis Kucinich; Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Founder, Schiller Institute), Melissa Parke (Executive Director of ICAN); Susan Schnall (President, Veterans for Peace USA); Col.(ret) Lawrence Wilkerson; Col.(ret) Ann Wright, and Professor Ivana Hughes (President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation). Please consult the entire list for more on these and all other endorsers, and their organizational affiliation.

U.S. organizations that have endorsed the letter include Veterans for Peace and Historians for Peace and Democracy.

For more information, and/or to add your name to the letter, please contact Ron Bettag at ronbettag@gmail.com

EIR has issued the following invitation to its July 31 Emergency Roundtable Dialogue.

As the Iran and Ukraine wars fester and threaten to escalate into nuclear World War III, it has become clear that, if humanity is to survive, we will have to discover and implement a way to achieve a durable peace for all, based on development for all, security for all, and above all human dignity for all. In the last two months, a new strategic factor has come into play which brings that opportunity a lot closer.

Pope Leo XIV’s recent week-long trip to Spain, combined with his May 15 first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, has issued a call for humanity to act as one in its common purpose of seeking peace and development for all nations by ending colonialism in all its forms once and for all; he has grounded that call to action in a concept of Man’s essential dignity (“The desire for goodness, beauty and truth is rooted in the very DNA of humanity”); and he has specifically applied this approach to the horrendous problem of global forced migration that affects hundreds of millions of desperate migrants—and the countries that receive them: “We are speaking, above all, of people created in the image and likeness of God, rather than of legal categories or problems to be managed.”

In so doing, the Pope has followed through on his earlier commitment to the Coincidence of Opposites method of the XV century Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, and he has also spoken not only for Catholics, but for many billions more of other faiths who share this outlook. He has introduced a principle which, if spread and applied globally, can play a major role in the construction of a new international security and development architecture.

As EIR Editor-in-Chief Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote in a June 17 statement about the Pope’s encyclical:

“Of all the important and urgent speeches delivered recently by politicians and experts from many countries with the aim of preventing the strategic situation from escalating into a catastrophe that would wipe out the human race, Pope Leo XIV’s intervention—with his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the addresses he delivered during his recent trip to Spain—is, in my best judgment, by far the most important. When historians later examine the question of what—hopefully—proved to be the decisive factor in bringing Western civilization, in the midst of a deep spiritual and cultural crisis, to change course, they will come upon the role played by the Pope, and the willingness of a sufficiently large number of believers and people of good will to take his words to heart and bring about a change in policy…

“At the same time, he indicates the way out of the crisis, which is within reach, namely, that people summon up the highest ideal of the Christian view of humanity, and put it into practice…

“Among the various aspects of these [failed Western] policies, all of which are building blocks of the new Tower of Babel, are the idolatry of profit at the expense of the poorest, the financial interests that fuel tensions and conflicts to keep the war industry up and running, and support for modern forms of slavery.”

Zepp-LaRouche then quoted the Pope’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas:

“81. A litmus test for social justice today is the treatment of migrants, refugees and those forced to move due to poverty, violence, climate change and environmental disasters… It means promoting the right to remain in one’s homeland in peace and security by addressing the root causes that force people to migrate, including those linked to economic injustices and the climate crisis. When these rights are respected, migration can become an opportunity for encounter and mutual enrichment among peoples.”

Zepp-LaRouche insisted:

“Instead of clinging to an inhuman neo-colonialist mindset, the governments of Europe and the U.S. are called upon to immediately commit to international cooperation aimed at completely eradicating poverty and underdevelopment in all nations on this planet.”

These tasks are both immediate and achievable. Zepp-LaRouche stated in a June 17 webcast:

“The continent of Africa will have 2.5 billion people by the year 2050. And that means that if you want to deal with the migration crisis in a human way, we have to create 1 billion new productive jobs in the next 25 years. And that would be a totally welcomed reversal of the present policy. It would at the same time also help the European governments and countries to get out of the economic crisis by having a tripartite cooperation with the BRICS countries.

“And for the United States, the same thing is valid. If you look at the migration crisis at the U.S.-Mexican border, it’s definitely the same approach which the United States should take in respect to the so-called Western Hemisphere. By joining hands with China, rather than trying to drive China out of Latin America, they should join and build things like the Chancay port, which is already built in Peru, but connect it to a bi-oceanic railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific. And in that way connect that with other great infrastructure projects. That would eliminate the root causes for the migrant problem in Latin America as well.”

The combination of the extremely dangerous global situation and this new hopeful strategic flank, require full deliberation by leading international thinkers. That is the purpose of the upcoming July 31 EIR Roundtable Dialogue, which will consist of two panels: A) Pope Leo and the Dialogue of Civilizations; B) Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War.

📅Online roundtable forum: 11 a.m. ET on Friday July 31 2026
Livestream in English on YouTube, and in Spanish, German and French simultaneous interpretation on Zoom.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83910952588?pwd=oriOURhs2ZOjZzAtzGzhv5MZAhsiDu.1
Passcode: 850621

Panel 1 (11:00—1:00)

A Dialogue of Civilizations: Development or World War III

Moderator: Dennis Speed

• Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany): Editor-in-Chief, EIR
• Liu Chang (China): spokesman for the Embassy of China in the U.S
• Rostam Adabinia (Iran): Minister Counselor, embassy of Iran in Mexico
• Richard Falk (U.S.): professor emeritus of international law, Princeton University
• Remi Lebrun (France): Schiller Institute
• Fr. Harry Bury (US), Twin Cities Nonviolent, Author. Member of U.S. Catholic Priests Association
• Jack Gilroy (U.S.): member Veterans for Peace, Pax Christi
• Daisuke Kotegawa (Japan): former Executive Director for Japan, IMF

Q&A

Panel 2 (1:30—3:30)

Solving the Migrant Crisis: Does Mankind Have the Moral Fitness to Survive?

Moderator: Anastasia Battle

• Dennis Small (U.S.): EIR Ibero-America director
• Mário Maurici (Brazil): Member and First Secretary of the São Paulo State Legislature
• Donald Ramotar (Guyana): former President of Guyana
• María de los Ángeles Huerta (Mexico): former congresswoman
• Diane Sare (U.S.): independent candidate for President of the United States
• SEM Ambassador Youssouf Abassalah, Ambassador of the Republic of Chad to Germany
• Timothy Ninsiima (Uganda): youth leader
• Claudio Celani (Italy): co-editor, EIR Strategic Alert Service
• Adama Coulibaly (Burkina Faso): former Chief of Staff to the Min. of Communication

Q&A