UPDATE: The conference has ended. The livestream was a success. Recorded videos will be available on atlantic-community.org on Tuesday afternoon.

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On September 10/11 the Heinrich Böll Foundation's 10th Annual Foreign Policy Conference "A World Without Nuclear Weapons or Nuclear Anarchy?" takes place in Berlin, Germany. The conference aims to promote multilateral collaboration among existing nuclear powers and emerging economies. Guiding questions are how to prevent non-state actors like terrorists from gaining access to materials that can be used for making nuclear weapons and how the nuclear non-proliferation regime can be strengthened to protect the world from all-out nuclear anarchy?

As media partner of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Atlantic-Community.org is broadcasting the conference via live stream. We will also present the recent Atlantic Memo "Global Zero is an End in Itself - Focus on First Steps!" at different stages of the conference. The memo summarizes the best arguments and policy recommendations from Atlantic-Community's special Theme Week "Global Zero" and thus gives a voice to our members during the conference.

Live TV : Ustream

Please find the conference's schedule below (all times GMT +1):

Day 1, Thursday, September 10, 2009

5:30 p.m. Opening Remarks

Ralf Fücks, President, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 
 
5:45 p.m. Keynote Speech: Deterrence or Disarmament? - "Global Zero" and the Diminution of the Role of Nuclear Weapons in 21st Century Security 
 
Oliver Meier, International Representative and Correspondent, Arms Control 
Association, Berlin; Researcher, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg
 
6:15 p.m. Strategic Discussion: Why now? - From Renewed Arms Reduction to a Nuclear Free World

Claus Wunderlich, Deputy Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control,
German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
(NPEC), Washington DC

Vladimir Orlov, President, The Russian Center for Policy Studies (PIR), Moscow

Chair:  Ralf Fücks, President, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin

7:45 p.m. Reception

Day 2, Friday, September 11, 2009
 
9:30 a.m. Welcome 
 
Marc Berthold, Head of Department, Foreign and Security Policy, Heinrich Böll
Foundation, Berlin
 
9:35 a.m. Panel 1: Saving the Non-Proliferation Regime - Strategic Proposals for the Review Conference 2010

Oliver Thränert, Research Division International Security, German Institute for 
International and Security Affairs, Berlin 

Martin Briens, Head of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Division, French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Paris
 
Fiona Simpson, Associate Director, Center on International Cooperation, New 
York University
 
Nobumasa Akiyama, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University; Research 
Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo 
 
Chair:  Sylke Tempel, Editor in chief, Internationale Politik, Berlin
 
11:00 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m. Panel 2: Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons: An Unavoidable Mesalliance?
 
Rebecca Harms, Member of European Parliament, Chairwoman of the
Parliamentary Group The Greens/ EFA, Brussels
 
Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
(NPEC), Washington DC
 
Clovis Brigagao, Director, Centre of the Americas Studies, Candido Mendes
University, Rio de Janeiro
 
Chair: Barbara Unmüßig, President, Heinrich B öll Foundation, Berlin 

1:00 p.m. Lunch break
 
2:00 p.m. Parallel Fora

Forum 1: Preventing a Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East 
 
Emily Landau, Senior Research Fellow and Director, Arms Control and Regional
Security Program, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv
 
Arzu Celalifer Ekinci, Middle East and Iranian Affairs Expert, International
Strategic Research Organization (USAK), Ankara
 
Chair: Andrea Nüsse, Tagesspiegel, Berlin

Forum 2: Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in South and East Asia
 
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Chairman, Department of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, 
Islamabad
 
Arundhati Ghose, India's former Ambassador to the United Nations, New Delhi
 
Christian Wagner, Head of Research Division, Research Division Asia, Stiftung
Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin
 
Chair: Marc Berthold, Head of Department, Foreign and Security Policy,
Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin
 
3:30 p.m. Coffee break
 
4:00 p.m. Closing Panel: Getting to Global Zero? - The Future of the Non-Proliferation Regime beyond 2010
 
Jürgen Trittin, Deputy Parliamentary Chairman, Alliance 90/ The Greens, Berlin
 
John Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies,  
University of Maryland (CISSM)
 
Arundhati Ghose, India's former Ambassador to the United Nations, New Delhi
 
Chair: Ralf Fücks, President, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin

5:30 p.m. End of Conference