Second Cycle of the Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab: Call for Applications

War Resisters’ International is happy to announce the second cycle of the Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab: An online workshop series (taking place between 12th March and 28th April) exploring antimilitarist campaigning and its intersection with relevant issues such as the climate crisis and the arms trade.

The Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab will be an interactive space for young activists to explore issues and strategies in antimilitarist campaigning in depth and increase youth's voice and influence within our movements. Each session will include contributions by experts and experienced activists from the field. At the end of the seminar series, the participants will be invited to contribute a piece (an article/interview/podcast) to be published WRI's main website.

Registration

The Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab is primarily targeting young activists and we have an age range of 18 to 35 for applications. 

Registration is closed. 

Practical details

From 12th March to 28th April 2025, you will participate in 7 sessions where you will learn about campaigning for peace, get insights on different issues, and explore different strategies to face and change today’s uncertain world.

• Each module will be composed of three sessions each of which will be 90 minutes long.
• Only the first session will be 2 hours long.
• The second session (on March 19th) of the first module will start earlier than the other sessions (1pm CET).
• This second cycle will be held entirely in English. 
• If you attend 80% of the sessions, you will receive a participation certificate.

If you have any questions or inquiries regarding the programme, registration or any other topic, please don't hesitate to write to us via info@wri-irg.org with the subject title 'ACL Information'. 

Timetable

Find a timetable including the date and time information for each session below.

Facilitators

Module #1: Campaigning against arms trade

Andrew Metheven

Andrew works on WRI’s Nonviolence Programme, which develops resources and organises training in nonviolent social change, with a specific focus on resisting "war profiteers". Andrew is involved in the anti-nuclear and anti-arms trade movements in the UK, and studied Politics and Peace Studies at the University of Bradford.

Minyeong Kim Han

Minyeong is an activist and a non-violent trainer at World Without War, based in Seoul, South Korea. She has worked on the anti-arms trade movement focusing on arms fairs in South Korea. Before joining the grassroots peace movement, she worked as a campaigner for Amnesty International Korea. She studied sociology at University College London in the UK and wrote a dissertation on youth democracy in social movements.

Centre Delàs

The Centre d’Estudis per la Pau J.M. Delàs (Centre of Studies for Peace J.M. Delàs) was created in 1999 in Justícia i Pau (Justice and Peace, as a result of the Campanya Contra el Comerç d’Armes –C3A, the Campaign against Arms Trade – C3A, which started in 1988). Currently, it is an independent Research Center on issues related to disarmament and peace.

The mission of Centre Delàs is to strengthen the culture of peace and the construction of a disarmed society, making people aware of the negative effects of arms and militarism. The Centre combines the work of research and publication with divulgation and social mobilization against militarism’s consequences, such as military expenditure, military R&D and the manufacture and trade of arms. Besides, it works to denounce governments’ lack of compliance with the international agreements regulating these issues.

Module #2: Campaigning for climate justice: antimilitarist perspectives

Sahar Vardi

Sahar Vardi is an anti-militarism and anti-occupation activist from Jerusalem. She is a conscientious objector, and has been part of the Israeli refusal movement for over a decade. In recent years she led the Israel program for the American Friends Service Committee, where she helped establish the Database on Israeli Military and Security Export, and developed research and campaigns against Israeli arms export and the human rights violations associated with the industry. She recently graduated from the Rotary Peace Fellowship at the University of Bradford in the UK where she wrote her dissertation on military climate mitigation plans. Sahar is a member of WRI's Climate Justice Working Group. 

Tatiana Garavito

Tatiana is an organiser and facilitator working on issues at the intersection of migration, race and climate justice. Tatiana has years of experience leading the strategic work of social justice organisations and over five years’ experience in facilitating processes for liberation and movement building. Tatiana has worked with Migrants Rights Network, HOPE not hate, Latin American Women’s Rights Services and Quakers In Britain amongst others; she is also a longstanding and founding member of climate justice collective Wretched of the Earth and co-leads the care & repair work at Tipping Point UK.