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CPTI will be hosting the 18th International Conference in Brussels in September - 4th to 6th.  The Conference happens somewhere in the world approximately every two years.  This year it will be held at the Chants d'Oiseau in Brussels, Belgium.  Everyone is cordially invited to participate.  Please find our invitation letter here.

The conference is residential for two days and will include talks, discussions, and a recreational period on the Sunday afternoon.  If we can organise it we will also offer a meeting with MEPs at the European Parliament on the Monday.  It is an opportunity we don't want to miss, to explain to them the logic of conscientious objection to paying for war and the need to use those taxes for building.  More news of that will be posted here and will be notified to registrants.  The draft program of the event can be found here.

If you want to attend, the registration form is here.

was held between 4th and 6th October, 2024, near Lübeck, Germany.

On the Friday evening the fifteen people present - from Germany, the UK and Switzerland were joined for national reports by online participants from the USA and Nepal. Read on...

The major feature of Saturday’s programme was the keynote address given by Ralf Becker of the “Rethinking Security” initiative (read PDF here). Read on…

On Sunday, following the CPTI General Assembly,  most of us proceeded to a historic tour of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck itself, followed on Monday by an “alternative” tour of the radical heritage of what was long a bastion against the rise of Nazism. Read on…

The conference itself had taken place on the Priwall peninsula, which for forty years had been cut off from the rest of the mainland by northern end of the Iron Curtain, less than a kilometer from where we met. Read on…

Today, there is just a tourist information board. Not a scrap of rusting barbed wire survives of the once-impenetrable fortifications. Read on...

In this post-Covid world, the big gatherings seem to be a thing of the past, but those present at Lübeck were inspired to reaffirm the importance of maintaining CPTI with its unique role, and our hard-won UN accreditation. Read on...

So now we are working towards another in-person gathering in two years’ time, with perhaps an in-between on-line mini-conference.