Anniversary campaign 2026-27
Bike for Peace turns 50. In 2026-27 we visit all nine nuclear powers with one appeal, a nuclear-free world by 2045.
We open with Round-the-World in September 2026 and an appeal to the UN. The full programme, eight tour segments visiting all nine nuclear powers, runs from August 2026 to the end of December 2027.
Right now
The travel budget for the Round-the-World tour is 510,500 NOK. So far the campaign has received 57,000 NOK in gifts and grants, with a further 110,000 NOK pledged by longstanding supporters. Every krone counts.
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Updated 09 July 2026.
Help us travel for a world without nuclear weapons
Bike for Peace is visiting all nine nuclear powers in 2026 and 2027. We travel with conversation and friendship as our tools. Your contribution covers visas, flights, lodging and local logistics.
Read the appeal we deliver in New York
This is the appeal we deliver at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in October 2026, carrying the names of everyone who has signed.
To the United Nations and the leaders of the world,
We sign this appeal in the tradition of Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., and in solidarity with the survivors of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Semipalatinsk, Nevada, and the Marshall Islands, whose testimonies remind us that nuclear weapons are a humanitarian catastrophe the world must move past.
We, the undersigned, appeal to you:
- For lasting peace in Europe, between Ukraine, Russia, and the European community.
- For a renewed diplomatic focus to ensure peace in the Middle East by de-escalating tensions between Israel, Iran, and the USA.
- For urgent efforts to secure peace and stability in Sudan.
- For a world free from nuclear weapons: we appeal to all nuclear powers to disarm as soon as possible, and by 2045 at the latest.
The world needs active peace work now. Dialogue is the only way out of locked conflicts.
Erik Berge, Project Leader, Bike for PeaceJosy Kang, Spokesperson, Bike for Peace
This appeal is dedicated to the United Nations, Mayors for Peace, the victims of nuclear testing and war, OPANAL, and Lions International.
Sign the 2045 Appeal
Add your name to the list we are carrying to the nine nuclear powers, and toward our aim of reaching the UN Secretary-General in New York. We will write to you from the road.
The programme
Eight tour segments from September 2026 to November 2027. The first is Round-the-World with the appeal to the UN in New York. After that follow Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and Central Asia, Israel and Palestine, the nuclear-armed states of Europe, and finally Peace Boat's global voyage.
1 September - 31 October 2026
Round-the-World and the UN appeal
Helsinki, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, Bali, Brisbane, Suva, Honolulu, Phoenix, Mexico City, Oklahoma City, Atlanta and New York. We hope to meet UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York in late October.
18-25 November 2026
Egypt, Aswan Forum
Cairo and Aswan. Participation at the 6th Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development.
January 2027
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
Islamabad and Riyadh, Jeddah. Meetings with Pakistani peace organisations and the Saudi foreign ministry.
15-29 March 2027
Russia, lecture tour
Moscow, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Perm and Yekaterinburg. Track 2 dialogue and lectures at universities.
17 April - 7 May 2027
China and Central Asia
Beijing, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Urumqi, Almaty and Astana along the Silk Road.
19-26 May 2027
Israel and Palestine
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem. Meetings with peace organisations and academia on both sides.
6-20 June 2027
Europe's nuclear-armed states
London, Paris, Rome and Berlin. Key disarmament actors and NATO nuclear-sharing states.
24 October - 29 November 2027
Peace Boat, global voyage
Lectures on Peace Boat's 127th Global Voyage. Sharing the campaign and the 2045 Appeal with roughly one thousand fellow travellers from more than seventy countries.
Get more involved
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About Bike for Peace
Bike for Peace was founded by Tore Nærland and friends in 1978. The first tour crossed Northern Ireland during a violent period of the Troubles. Since then BFP has cycled for peace in more than 70 countries, always with the same method, dialogue across conflict lines, the bicycle as a bridge.
Today the work is led by President Tore Nærland and Vice President Frank Tomlinson.
Bike for Peace has received the MacBride Peace Prize, the Mahatma Gandhi Prize for non-violence, His Majesty The King's Medal of Merit in gold, and the Order of Dostyk.
Contact, erik@bikeforpeace.no, tore@bikeforpeace.no