Youth Dialogue Event for Global Peace

Youth Dialogue Event for Global Peace 2025 

On August 6, the 80th year since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, the Hiroshima Office of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and the Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) will hold a youth dialogue event for global peace, “80 years after the Hiroshima A-bomb: Youth Messages from Hiroshima to the World - Roadmaps toward a World without Nuclear Weapons and Sustainable Peace."

In this event, high school students and other young people participating in the UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassador Program for FY2025, will engage in discussions on peace initiatives with the guests. The ultimate aim of these discussions is to create and share to the world a roadmap for the construction of a truly “peaceful world”.

Although the application to participate in the event is now closed, we will be streaming a video of Session 2 on YouTube, which we hope you will enjoy. The streaming will be accessible in both English and Japanese.

Overview of The Event

Date: 

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:00 - 16:00

Location: 

ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Hiroshima 3rd Floor “Orchid”

Schedule:

Session 1 (12:00-14:00) : Roadmap creation (Group Work)

Session 2 (14:30-16:00) : Roadmap presentation

*Guests will attend Session 2 only.

Language:

Japanese and English

*Simultaneous interpretation in both Japanese and English will be provided in Session 2.

Distribution:

Session 2 will be accessible on the following platforms:

- Live streaming on the Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) YouTube channel

◆ English (original language) → https://youtube.com/live/I8lzxAx1EtY

◆ Japanese → https://youtube.com/live/5fWyVGKlPmk

-Live streaming at the Hiroshima Prefecture booth at the Osaka-Kansai Expo

Participants:

(1) Guests:

• Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu : UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
• Mr. Toshiharu Goto :  A-bomb Survivor
• Ms. Luli van der Does : Director of the Center for Peace, Hiroshima University
• Mr. Regis Savioz :  Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, International Committee of the Red Cross
• Mr. Hidehiko Yuzaki :  Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture and President of HOPe

(2) Facilitator

• Ms. Michelle Gyles-McDonnough : Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director, UNITAR

(3) Participants

• High school students participating in UNITAR Youth Ambassador Program and graduates of the Prefectural Human Resources Development Program: approximately 30 people (participants in discussions with guests)
•  Students:  approximately 50 people (audience)    *Registration has been already finished.