Kanon and Manon I. ’26 Organizes Westridge School’s First Peace Forum

Kudos to Westridge School’s Kanon and Manon I. ’26, who, with some assistance from the Teens4Disarmament Club, organized their first Peace Forum: part of the pair’s Global Initiative Study project which looks at how the creation, testing, and usage of nuclear weapons impact the world in political, societal, and environmental ways.

Aiming to “educate and discuss the complex issues of nuclear weapons and their intersectionality with many social issues,” the event featured an address and Q&A with Masako Toki, senior project manager and research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute in Monterey, whose work focuses on youth education.

“Young people are the ultimate force for change—we don’t have a short-term solution, so it will take your generation to continue this work,” Toki said.

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