Chair: Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn MP, founder and director of PJP (Peace & Justice Project), is a twice elected leader of the UK Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. He has served as a Member of British Parliament in Islington North for 42 years and is a Parliamentary Member of the Council of Europe. Following the recent election, he is now an Independent MP. His expansive and lifelong campaigning for peace, justice and human rights has taken him across the world, advocating in senior roles for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, Stop the War, the UN Human Rights Council in New York (review of the Geneva Convention), nuclear non-proliferation, trade unions, employment rights, Indigenous rights and many social movements.

Lindsey German

Lindsey German is a long-time socialist and campaigner. She went on her first demonstration against the all-white South African rugby tour in 1869. She helped form Stop the War Coalition in 2001 and it is convenor. She has organised hundreds of protests and activities against war, imperialism and oppression. Her publications include several books on women and a jointly authored volume, People’s History of London.

Andrew Feinstein

Andrew Feinstein is the executive director of Shadow World Investigations. Andrew resigned as an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa in 2001, in protest at the government's refusal to investigate corruption in a $10 billion arms deal. His first book, After the Party, reveals the impact of this deal. He also wrote the critically acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, and worked on an award-winning feature documentary, Shadow World. Andrew appears regularly in a range of global media, has contributed chapters on arms trade issues for a number of volumes, and was named among the 100 most influential people in the world working in armed violence reduction by Action of Armed Violence. He serves on the advisory board of the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, Lighthouse Reports, Declassified UK, and Demilitarise Education.

Binalakshmi Nepram

Binalakshmi Nepram is an Indigenous peacebuilder and scholar, fellow at the Asia Centre at Harvard, spearheading the women-led peace and disarmament movement. Bina co-founded India's first civil society organisation for conventional disarmament issues, Control Arms Foundation of India, as well as a Manipur Women Gun Survivor Network and the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace. Bina has received the Seán MacBride Peace Prize, the CNN IBN Real Heroes Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award. Action on Armed Violence listed Bina as one of the '100 most important people in the world working on Armed Violence Reduction'.

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad (PhD) is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His latest book On Cuba. Reflections on 70 years of Revolution and Struggle (2024) was written with Noam Chomsky. He is executive director of Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research, and chief correspondent for Globetrotter. He is also the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi) and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has appeared in two films - Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).