The Rising Generation’s Peace and Justice Priorities: Leading U.S. and European Organizers and Advocates

Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech brought to mind the wisdom and oratory of an earlier inspiring justice and peace leader, Martin Luther King. But he is not the only dreamer and organizer under 35 doing what he or she can do to make our country and world better.

Join rising generation organizers and peace advocates from US, Germany, and Serbia talk to learn what they see as the greatest challenges they and we face and their organizing and advocacy responses.

Mina Damnjanovic, feminist peace activist from Belgrade Serbia. She was active in Women in Black, Belgrade on Resolution 1325: Women, peace and Security. She finished MA in Gender Studies, University of Belgrade.

Linus Lanfermann-Baumann is a PhD candidate in Contemporary History at Graz University, Austria. His research focuses on peace activism in the 1980s within the transatlantic triangle of West Germany, Central America, and the United States. Owen Madaus is a Master’s student in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence with experience in peacebuilding, advocacy, and community-based development.

Owen led organizing for Boston’s Hiroshima/Nagasaki 80th anniversary commemoration and served with Massachusetts Peace Action and is a CPDCS Board member.

Nick Rabb is a postdoctoral researcher at California State University, Los Angeles. He is a thinker and organizer motivated to help people think critically about politics and social life, and strategies for a just, cooperative, and life-giving society. Nick is a CPDCS Board member and participated in Gensuikyo’s World Conference against A- & H- Bombs in Japan.