Date: Monday, March 3, 2025, 1:15 – 2:45PM
Place: United Nations Headquarters, Conference Room A
This side event will take place on the occasion of the third Meeting of States Parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (3MSP). It will begin with a report of key international intergenerational findings garnered utilizing the Danieli Inventory for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma – the gold measure for comparatively assessing psychosocial intergenerational impacts of trauma (www.ICMGLT.org/inventory/). This Inventory has been respectfully and sensitively adjusted to exploring direct and indirect effects in offspring of victim/survivors of nuclear bombing and nuclear radiation exposure and fallout in multiple related languages (English version at iglow.world). Following the original study presentation, discussants – veterans and descendants of nuclear-exposed communities who, in addition to honoring the memories of survivor parents, would report of their own legacies and highlight the urgency of studying and redressing these legacies to inform global policy and reparative justice practices. This forward-looking dialogue aims to advance TPNW’s mission by integrating victim/survivors and descendants’ experiences, cutting-edge science, and visionary leadership to chart a path toward a nuclear-free and equitable future.
Welcome:
John M. Silk
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the United Nations (1946-1958)
Voices:
Kathleen Burkinshaw
Daughter of Toshiko Ishikawa, Hibakusha (6 August, 1945)
Sara Miyako Burkinshaw
Granddaughter of Toshiko Ishikawa, Hibakusha (6 August, 1945)
Keith Kiefer
1977-1980 Enewetak Atoll Radiological Cleanup Veteran/survivor; Commander, (United States) National Associa tion of Atomic Veterans; In Memoriam for F. Lincoln Grahlfs, Operation Cossroads (1-25 July, 1946) survivor, and his children
Kathy Sinai
Daughter of a 17-years old United States Navy Operation Hardtack 1 (28 April-8 August, 1958); Founder, i Glow and StillGlowing
Alan Owen, MBA, FLPI
Son of James Ronald Owen, UK Royal Navy, Operation Dominic (25 April-30 October, 1962); Founder of LABRATS
Oksana Yakushko
Child survivor of Chernobyl (26 April, 1986)
Convener and Study Presenter:
Dr. Yael Danieli
Traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian; Founder, Executive Director, Senior Representative to the United Nations, International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma (ICMGLT); Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children
Food and beverages courtesy of Victoria Moore Fine Art (near the Vienna Café)
