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
We are missing 70 percent of the plane tickets, 155,000 NOK, due on 29 June 2026. Every krone counts.
Updated, figures update from the database.
Help us cycle for a world without nuclear weapons
Bike for Peace is visiting all nine nuclear powers in 2026 and 2027. We travel with bicycles, conversation and friendship as our tools. Your contribution keeps the wheels turning.
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
We need more hands. Tell us briefly how you can help, and we will be in touch.
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