The Normandy Manifesto for World Peace was issued at Caen, Normandy on 4 June 2019 by six thought leaders from different parts of the world. The manifesto is inspired by the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955. It calls for saving humankind form apocalypse which might be caused by weapons of mass destruction including nuclear, biological, genomic, chemical, and lethal autonomous weapons, at a time of the erosion of global values, rise of ultra-nationalism and failure to combat climate change.

The Normandy Manifesto is a joint initiative of the Normandy Regional Government and its Normandy for Peace Forum along with Strategic Foresight Group.

Signatories:

1. Dr Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt), Nobel Peace Prize, 2005. He served the International Atomic Energy Agency as Director General for twelve years, committed to protect nuclear facilities and materials from misuse by states and extremists. He has played a lead role in a campaign for cancer therapy and also in the civil society movement for democracy in Egypt.

2. Dr Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), Nobel Peace Prize, 2011. She led a non-violent movement that brought together Christian and Muslim women to play a pivotal role to end the Liberian civil war. She then extended the network of women working for peace to cover the whole of Africa. She has established a foundation for education and mentoring of young women leaders. She has also held advisory positions in the United Nations.

3. Prof Anthony Grayling (UK), Bertrand Russell Society Award, 2015. He is the first Master of New College of the Humanities, a philosopher of ethics and a Supernumerary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. He is the author of 30 books on philosophy, history of ideas, human rights and ethics. He also chairs the national coalition of groups opposed to Brexit.

4.Dr Denis Mukwege (Congo, Democratic Republic), Nobel Peace Prize, 2018. He is the founder of Panzi Hospital in Congo. He has treated thousands of women raped in the course of warfare in Congo. He has campaigned against using sexual violence as a weapon of war.

5. Prof Jody Williams (USA), Nobel Peace Prize, 1997. As a leader of the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, she mobilised 1000 organisations from 60 countries to persuade 120 countries to sign the Ottawa Convention prohibiting the use of land mines. She chairs the Nobel Women’s Initiative and is currently campaigning to ban killer robots.