Bio | Colin Archer works for the International Peace Bureau in Geneva (IPB), founded in 1891. It is a coordination center for 220 member organizations, working for disarmament and peace education. It involves many volunteers and activists. The IPB has long supported the disarmament work of the United Nations and efforts to strengthen international law. The IPB also recognizes that grass roots peoples' movements are vitally important, and that peace cannot be separated from wider issues of economic justice, environmental security and human rights. Recently much of the IPB work has been on issues like nuclear weapons testing and proliferation, conventional arms transfers, and the impact of militarism on the environment. |