Nuclear Truth Project Protocols

Introduction

The Nuclear Truth Project (NTP) works towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons and associated nuclear harms. This includes redress and assistance for those who have been harmed, the remediation for the widespread health and ecological damage from past and present nuclear activities, and preventing future nuclear harms.

The NTP began in 2021 working with a small group of affected community members and organisational leaders from a diverse range of international groups, to discuss challenges when working within, alongside or for communities and individuals impacted by nuclear harms.

The NTP identified a need to establish Protocols to ensure any consultations and asks of affected communities were being practiced in good faith and with a ‘do no harm’ approach to engagement.

Goals

Educate

Document and demonstrate to people the genocidal nature of nuclear weapons and the harms that nuclear weapons and associated nuclear activities have caused and continue to cause;

Advocate

Build agency to empower people, including those who have suffered disproportionately and those who face nuclear annihilation;

Network

Build accountability and transparency measures to aid in the implementation and universalization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and strengthen solidarity between and within nuclear impacted communities

About the Nuclear Truth Project Protocols

The Nuclear Truth Project’s Protocols are a living document, intended to be built on by nuclear impacted community members over time. The Protocols continue to be in active consultation with Indigenous Peoples, frontline and affected community members and allied organisations.

We advocate that those working towards nuclear truth and remedy within, alongside or in relation to victims/survivors, First Nations and Indigenous Peoples in nuclear impacted communities should undertake to consider and establish practices that follow these basic protocols – Rights, Respect and Reciprocity.

Access Resources

• Read the full protocols and find out more about the Nuclear Truth Project here.
• Read the Nuclear Truth Protocols “Talking Protocols” Report (2023) here.

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