ACONA Conference Reykjavík 2024

The ACONA Conference took place in Veröld - House of Vigdís in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 17, 2024

International nuclear arms control experts and practitioners came to Reykjavík to address present and emerging challenges in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. The conference was open to the public and featured Margot Wallström, former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, Bruce Turner, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament and Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN, among others.

Below you can find videos from the conference.

Margot Wallström, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Moderator: María Mjöll Jónsdóttir, Director General, Directorate for International Affairs and Policy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland

Guðmundur Hálfdánarson, Professor of History, University of Iceland

Edward M. Ifft, former U.S. arms control negotiator; Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Pavel Palazhchenko, former personal interpreter to Mikhail Gorbachev; Head of the International Relations and PR Department, Gorbachev Foundation, Member, ACONA International Advisory Board

Bo QU, Associate Professor and Director, Institute of International Relations, China Foreign Affairs University

Moderator: Christian Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center, Member, ACONA Executive Board

Mariana Budjeryn, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, ACONA Associate

Sascha Hach, Research Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, ACONA Associate

Valeriia Hesse, ACONA Fellow ‘24 and Winner of the January 2024 ACONA Boot Camp Negotiation Award; Researcher, Odesa Center for Nonproliferation

Tynchtykbek Israiilov, ACONA Fellow ‘24, Representative of the Group Winner of the May 2024 ACONA Boot Camp Policy Brief Award; Project Manager at OSCE, Kyrgyzstan

Commentator: Bruce Turner, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament

Moderator: Arvid Bell, Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; Member, ACONA Executive Board

Bruce Turner, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament

Jyri Lavikainen, Researcher, Finnish Foreign Policy, Northern European Security and NATO Research Programme, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Amy Nelson, Fellow, Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings Institution

Guy Roberts, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs

Tong ZHAO, Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie China

Moderator: Christopher Daase, Professor of International Organization, Goethe University Frankfurt; Deputy Director, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; Member, ACONA Executive Board

Melissa Parke, Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN); former Minister for International Development, Commonwealth of Australia