Events & Outreach

5/5/2026
Public panel discussion at Gustavianum, Uppsala: Kan vi förhandla bort kärnvapen?
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4/13-14/2026
Research Sprint: 13 teams looked at the the topic of Arms Control & AI Governance using AMC Data.

3/2/2026
Meeting with the Department for Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Export Control at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (UD NIS).

2/19/2026
Lisa Hultman, Isak Svensson and Peter Andersson gave a presentation to the Committee on Foreign Affairs at Sweden’s parliament.

12/12/2025
Peter Andersson gave a talk at the NewComers4Nuclear seminar ‘Nuclear Weapons – Paths to Verified Disarmament’

12/5–6/2025
AMC and Pugwash hosted a Workshop on Nordic Security: Deterrence and Risk Reduction. International experts and participants from the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

12/1/2025
AMC, SIPRI and Svenska Läkare mot Kärnvapen hosted a discussion in Stockholm on current nuclear policy in Sweden.

11/19/2025
AMC organised a simulation exercise in Uppsala for university students.

11/10-11/2025
Lisa Hultman and Sibylle Bauer participated in the 14th EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference in Brussels.

10/28/2025
Thomas Jonter gave a talk on Alva Myrdal at Armemuseum in Stockhholm

10/28/2025
‘The Bomb and Diplomacy: Nuclear Weapons Negotiations Now and Then’, Ulrika Möller lectures to social studies teachers during ‘Subject Day’, organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg.

10/24/2025
Lisa Hultman presented the work of the AMC at Folk och Försvar's training course for journalists.

9/26/2025
AMC and UI hosted two seminars at the Gothenburg bookfair. About 450 people attended, including around 140 upper secondary school students.

9/26/2025
Meeting with Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists

9/21/2025
Peter Wallensteen and Thomas Jonter spoke at the Rotary International Day of Peace celebration in Uppsala

September 2025
AMC Data was added to the UN Office for Disarmament affairs’ list of resources for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education.

8/26/2025
AMC group leaders met with Ambassador Stephan Klement, EU Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.

8/6/2025
Lisa Hultman gave a talk at Rotary Uppsala, marking the day 80 years had passed since the Hiroshima bombing.

8/6/2025
Peter Wallensteen gave a lecture at Kulturveckan in Sunne, marking the day 80 years had passed since the Hiroshima bombing.

6/25/2025
The AMC co-hosted a seminar at Almedalsveckan discussing current wars, nuclear threats, and the future.

6/16/2025
Thomas Jonter gave a talk at a meeting of Upper-secondary school Civics teachers (Samhällslära).

6/11/2025
Sibylle Bauer and Wilfred Wan hosted a workshop on nuclear disarmament education.

5/22/2025
Erik Melander gave a speech on arms control at a well-attended seminar on nuclear threats for members of parliament and government officials.

4/11-12/2025
Thomas Jonter represented the AMC at the workshop Advancing Disarmament in a New Age of Insecurity, where scientists, scholars and representatives from civil society from all over the world convened in Vancouver to create a global network for promoting education on disarmament.

3/20/2025
Isak Svensson gave a guest lecture at Utrikespolitiska Föreningen Stockholm on the Ukraine-Russia War.

10/28/2025
‘The New Atomic Age’ Ulrika Möller participates in a panel discussion in the format ‘AW with Researchers’, organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Pusterviksteatern, Gothenburg.

1/13/2025
Erik Melander deltog i panelen ‘Europas säkerhet 2025 – fred, eskalering eller kärnvapen?’ på Folk och Försvars Rikskonferens.

2024

12/6/2024
Armend Bekaj presents upcoming paper at the first International Interdisciplinary Nuclear Disarmament Symposium at the University of Bradford.

December 2024
WG5 members participated at ‘World Emerging Security Forum’, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea, Seoul, ROK,

11/27/2024
"Årets Nobelpriser", teachers' evening at the Nobel Prize Museum. Thomas Jonter presented the work of this year's Peace Prize leaureate Nihon Hidankyo.

11/26-28/2024
Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj:

at book launch at Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva.
Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj have an introductory meeting and book promotion with The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj have an introductory meeting and book promotion with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj have an introductory meeting and book promotion with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF).

11/22/2024
Peter Wallensteen and Thomas Jonter discuss the work of the AMC in Uppsala University’s podcast Forskarpodden.

11/19/2024
Cecilia Gustavsson presented for high school science students at the Science Day. Topic: Nuclear Weapon Disarmament – technical aspects.

November 2024
WG5 members participated at ‘EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference’, organized by the Istituto Affari Internazionali on behalf of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (EUNPDC), Brussels, Belgium,

10/28/2024
Armend Bekaj at book launch at King’s College London.

October 2024
Peter Wallensteen at book launch at Kroc Institute, Indiana. Read more.

October 2024
WG5 members participated at 16th Nuclear and Security Forum’, hosted at the Arab League Headquarters, Cairo, Egypt,

10/17/2024
Peter Wallensteen gave a talk at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs's "Gymnasiedag: Krig och fred" for 300 upper secondary school students.

8/27/2024
The seminar "Kriget i Ukraina – hur kan kriget få ett slut?" at the Gothenburg Book Fair featured Peter Wallensteen and Oscar Jonsson, researcher at the Swedish Defense University.

The seminar "Efter Ukraina – måste vi tala om risken för kärnvapenkrig igen?" at the Gothenburg Book Fair featured Peter Wallensteen and Jakob Hallgren, director of The Swedish Institute of International Affairs and AMC board member.

July-August 2024
WG5 members participated at ‘AI and Nuclear Decision-Making’, ‘Deterring NPT Withdrawal’, and ‘Nuclear Risk Reduction in the Framework of CEND’, side events at the Second Preparatory Committee to the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Geneva, Switzerland,

6/26/2024
Magnus Öberg and Erik Melander participated in Almedalen 2024 with the lecture "Hur ser utvecklingen i omvärlden ut avseende krig och kärnvapenhot? Hur kan man tänka om framtiden?".

June 2024
WG5 members participated at ‘Multilateral Nuclear Diplomacy in Turbulent Times?’, organized by the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, Krems, Austria,

May 2024
WG5 members participated at ‘Creating an Environment for Nuclear Disarmament’, organized by the German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany,

4/18-19/2024
NATO, Nuclear Disarmament, Arms Control, and the Nordic Region,, Uppsala University. Workshop hosted by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC).

Spring 2024
Nordic Perspectives on Disarmament, with Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Workshop hosted by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC).

March 2024
WG5 members participated at ‘Toward the 2024 NPT Preparatory Committee Session’, organized by the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies, Annecy, France,

2023

11/14/2023
Peter Wallensteen gave a talk at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs's "Gymnasiedag: fred och säkerhet med fokus på kärnvapen".

11/15/2023
Erik Melander och Magnus Öberg gave the lecture 'Krig och kärnvapenhot – dåtid, nutid och framtid' at Carolina Rediviva. Read more.

November 2023
WG5 members participated at “How Nuclear Disarmament is Taught”, Second Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), New York, USA, November 2023.

2023 September
WG1 organised a research panel on nuclear diplomacy at the Pan-European International Studies Association Convention in Potsdam, Germany. Among the topics discussed were the failure to negotiate a nuclear agreement in Iran, insights from climate negotiations, and the challenges and opportunities of collecting data on nuclear arms negotiations.

June 2023
Magnus Öberg and Erik Melander participated in Almedalen 2023 with the lecture "Krig och kärnvapenhot: omvärldsläget och framtidsutsikter". See video recording.

March 2023.
WG5 hosted the public panel event “Perspectives on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Disarmament” in Solna,

2022

10/25/2022
Sophie Grape at UppTalk Weekly, a panel discussion on nuclear disarmament. The panel included Sophie Grape, Erik Melander and Martin Goliat from FOI.

9/20/2022
Sophie Grape, Presentation at the Department for physics and astronomy colloquium

August 2022
Wg 5 hosted the worshop “Nuclear Disarmament at a Crossroads?”, at the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), New York, USA,

5/4/2022
Sophie Grape: Technical nuclear non-proliferation and safeguards, Presentation at the AMC meeting with U.S. Deputy assistant secretary for nonproliferation policy, Ms Ann Ganzer, 2022/05/04