All sessions will be broadcast on Zoom. All times are listed in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

• 1:00pm-1:30pm EDT: Welcome & Opening Remarks from WBW’s Co-Founder and Executive Director David Swanson
• 1:30pm-2:30pm EDT: Reports from WBW Chapters Around the World: World BEYOND War Chapter Coordinators from around the world will share short updates about their educational programs and nonviolent activism campaigns towards war abolition. Moderated by WBW Vice President Liz Remmerswaal.
• 2:45pm-3:00pm EDT: Performance by Taína Asili, a dynamic singer, composer, interdisciplinary artist, and activist carrying on the tradition of her Puerto Rican ancestors, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant voice.
• 3:00pm-4:30pm EDT: Panel: Border Imperialism: The Militarization of Borders & Criminalization of Migrants featuring Josephine Solanki, Transnational Institute; Todd Miller, Co-Founder of The Border Chronicle; Syed Hussan, Executive Director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change and a member of the Migrant Rights Network Secretariat; moderated by Dr. Sarah Turnbull, Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo (Canada).
• 4:30pm-5:00pm EDT: Breakout Rooms: Meet other conference participants from around the world and have a chance for networking and discussion.

• 9:00am-9:15am EDT: Performance by Cameroonian spoken word poet and artivist Penboy, who is known for using his words to express his views on social and political issues, particularly the Anglophone crisis in his home country. 
• 9:15am-10:30am EDT: Panel: Case Studies of Militarized Borders & Demilitarized Zones featuring Hannah Lee, Coalition Building Committee Co-Coordinator at Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network; Dr. Wesam Amer, former Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University; Adriana Jasso, Program Coordinator for the U.S./Mexico Border Program of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); moderated by Khawaja Hammad Akbar, a Pakistani geopolitical scientist, futurist, and decolonization strategist.
• 10:45am-12:00pm EDT: Movement Dialogue: A Hybrid Session on Zoom and In-Person in Amsterdam, Netherlands—Details to Come
• 12:15pm-1:30pm EDT: Panel: How War and Militarism Fuel Displacement featuring Helena Maleno Garzón, Founder and CEO of Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders Collective); Yasmin Ullah, a Rohingya human rights activist and Executive Director of the Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network; Norbert Byambo Kagosi, Coordinator of the Isingiro Nakivale chapter of World BEYOND War; moderated by Mir Rahimi, Founder of Edu-Change and author of Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy’s Extraordinary Journey. 
• 1:30pm-2:00pm EDT: Breakout Rooms

• 12:00pm-12:15pm EDT: Performance by Palestinian poet and performer Farah Chamma
• 12:15pm-1:30pm EDT: Workshop: Nonviolent Communication: Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs. Facilitator: Sal Corbin of DC Peace Team. 
• 1:45pm-3:00pm EDT: Panel: Migration is Beautiful: The Case for Open Borders featuring activist and writer Harsha Walia, author of Undoing Border Imperialism(2013) and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021); writer, policy expert, and campaigner Gracie Mae Bradley, co-author of Against Borders (2022); journalist John Washington, author of The Case for Open Borders (2024); moderated by Dr Mujib Abid, an Afghan-Australian scholar of modern Afghan history, peace studies and political theory.
• 3:00pm-3:15pm EDT: Closing Words by WBW Board President Kathy Kelly
• 3:15pm-4:00pm EDT: Breakout Rooms 

Hope to see you at #NoWar2026,

Greta Zarro
Organizing Director
World BEYOND War
[email protected]