The Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project: Student-to-student dialogues and interactive peer education in disarmament activism

Abstract

The Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project is a student run and student initiated project founded in 2001 with the purpose of increasing awareness of health effects of nuclear policies and empowering university students to take action in a local and international context. The project uses dialogues to discuss nuclear disarmament with university students and a method of interactive peer education to train new trainers. The project has met more than 1500 students in nuclear weapon states in dialogue and trained about 400 students from all over the world. This article describes the methods and results of the project and discuss how the experience of the project can be used in other projects seeking to increase awareness of a topic and to initiate action on social injustice.

Keywords:

• Advocacy
• Dialogue
• Nuclear weapons
• Student action
• Training

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Caecilie Böck Buhmann

Caecilie Böck Buhmann is a newly graduated physician from Denmark. She holds a BSc in Global Health from University College London and is currently studying for a Masters degree in Public Health. She serves as a board member of IPPNW and is one of two co-founders of the Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project