This year's conference theme is abolition. How do we move towards a world without wars, weapons, police, prisons, the death penalty, and borders? How can we work towards our collective liberation, recognizing that oppressions are interconnected? Come to #NoWar2025 to explore how we can join in solidarity across movements and borders to abolish these interwoven systems and build a world based on common security.
View event on WBW website here: https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2025/?link_id=3&can_id=540e92ff874a6b94a0ca720db2a7dff1&source=email-learning-from-alternatives-to-militarism-police-prisons&email_referrer=email_2846323&email_subject=youre-invited-to-our-annual-conference-october-24-26
Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/ticketed_events/nowar2025?clear_id=true
#NoWar2025 Schedule
All sessions will be broadcast on Zoom. All times are listed in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Day 1: Making the Case for Abolition
3:00pm-3:30pm EDT: Welcome & Opening Remarks from WBW’s Co-Founder and Executive Director David Swanson
World BEYOND War’s Co-Founder and Executive Director David Swanson will provide the opening remarks for the #NoWar2025 Conference, with an introduction to World BEYOND War’s mission and the conference theme.
3:30pm-4:30pm EDT: Reports from WBW Chapters Around the World
4:30pm-4:45pm EDT: Break
4:45pm-5:00pm EDT: Performance
5:00pm-6:30pm EDT: Panel: Making the Case for Abolition
6:30pm-7:00pm EDT: Breakout Rooms: What does abolition mean to you?
Day 2: Learning from Examples of Abolition Movements
1:00pm-1:15pm EDT: Performance
1:15pm-2:30pm EDT: Panel: Case Studies of Abolition
2:30pm-2:45pm EDT: Break
2:45pm-4:00pm EDT: Panel: Learning from Abolitionist Movements and Cultivating Intersectionality
4:00pm-4:15pm EDT: Break
4:15pm-5:15pm EDT: Training: We Keep Us Safe: Preparing for Arrests and Building Communities of Abolition
Day 3: Exploring a World Beyond War / Imagining the Abolitionist Future
12:15pm-12:30pm EDT: Performance by Dana Dajani, award-winning Palestinian-American poet
12:30pm-1:45pm EDT: Active Bystander Intervention and De-escalation Training
1:45pm-2:00pm EDT: Break
2:00pm-3:15pm EDT: Panel: Indigenous Restorative Justice: Pathways towards Abolition
3:15pm-3:30pm EDT: Closing Words by WBW Board President Kathy Kelly
3:30pm-4:15pm EDT: Breakout Rooms: What does a world beyond war look like to you?
