"To contribute to the removal of obstacles to peace, to work for justice, security and disarmament, and to promote the development of peaceful co-existence and co-operation among nations."
~ WFUNA Constitution
 
Our Focus Areas within Peace and Security
WFUNA's activities within the peace and security area have a special focus on the Responsibility to Protect, Rule of Law and nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
- Provide citizens with a framework to hold states accountable in the face of genocide and mass atrocity
- Mobilize public and political will for the Responsibility to Protect
- Mobilize public and political will for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
- Promote the establishment of a nuclear weapons convention
Our Peace and Security Programs
Within the Peace and Security focus area, WFUNA has two distinct programs:
1. Responsibility to Protect - mobilizing public and political will
To empower civil society with a framework for holding states accountable in the face of genocide and mass atrocity; increase knowledge and awareness of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), expand media coverage and political debate and provide tools for information dissemination and advocacy. (This program is now in the fundraising phase and is expected to launch in mid-2010) Go to this program>>>
Learn more about R2P>>>
2. ZeroWorld - disarmament program
To educate young people about disarmament issues and mobilize them to support and become active in creating a safer and more peaceful world for all.
Each year, a multi-disciplinary global youth contest will be organized on a different disarmament topic. The topic for 2010 is nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and the competition targets young designers (Nuclear Button Contest). Go to this program>>>
 Founded in 1946, WFUNA has had a long history of promoting international cooperation and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. Our network has served as a back channel for people to-people consultations on sensitive political issues between nation states. For example, during the Cold War, WFUNA facilitated high-level informal consultations on disarmament issues between key experts of the USA and USSR. It organized a number of NGO Seminars on Disarmament in cooperation with the UN, UNESCO and other NGOs.
Additionally, WFUNA helped promote "Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CSCE) by holding in 1967 the first ever conference on this topic. Other NGOs followed WFUNA’s campaign which continued until 1975 when the Final Act was signed at Helsinki by 35 governments, including USA and Canada, establishing the CSCE process. Further campaigning led in 1994 to the CSCE process that consisted of a Biennial Review Conference being raised to a Permanent Organization (OSCE).
Today,WFUNA works with numerous UNA's and NGO's around the world to develop programs for peace. This cooperation demonstrates the power of civil society's role in promoting a more peaceful future.
Dr. Hans Blix, Chair of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, the former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the former Executive Chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Comission, became the Presidnet of WFUNA in November 2006 and served until August 2009, after which he became Honorary President of WFUNA.
 Students for a Nuclear Weapons Free World was an initiative for engaging young people from diverse academic disciplines with the topic of nuclear disarmament, that WFUNA ran from 2006-2009. The project included two international student competitions, the creation of a network of young people from around the world who were active in the field disarmament, and a web resource to support this network with information and communication pathways.
In 2006 and 2008, WFUNA held global student competitions on the topic of Nuclear Non-Proliferation, with support and participation from the WFUNA President at the time, Dr. Hans Blix.
The 2006 competition was an essay contest on the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission Report. The winner, a young woman from Zimbabwe, was selected from over 300 submissions. Her prize was a trip to a WFUNA conference in Argentina where she met Dr. Blix and presented her recommendations to him.
For the 2008 competition, students expressed their vision for a world free of nuclear weapons by writing an essay, designing a poster, or making a video. Fifteen winners representing every region of the world were selected from over 200 submissions. Their prize was a trip to the UN in Geneva, where they had meetings and workshops for three days with a variety of disarmament experts, including Dr. Hans Blix. After the trip, they set-up their own network, and continued their efforts as disarmament activists both in their home countries, and internationally in collaboration with each other.
The program continues this year, under the new name ZeroWorld, with the 2010 competition focused on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament (Nuclear Button Contest).
In 2010 WFUNA will also be launching a new program on the Responsibility to Protect.
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