EPS’s mission states:

We seek. . . to promote the movement for world disarmament, nuclear disarmament, and a reduction in the stockpiling of weapons by all countries; to support efforts to create economic incentives for peaceful relations; to promote collective approaches to conflict and security problems; to encourage the submission of international disputes to negotiation, arbitration, judicial settlement, [and] the United Nations.

To achieve this mission, EPS actively participates in events, committees, and conferences at the UN. We are accredited with special consultative status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Department of Public Information (DPI). ECOSOC has some mission. The DPI facilitates information exchange between NGOs (non-governmental organizations).

The consultative relationship is reciprocal. EPS gains the privilege of participating in a wide variety of UN sponsored meetings and activities, and in return we help further the development aims of ECOSOC, the DPI, and the United Nations as a whole.

In addition, we participate in the following standing committees and bodies:

1. NGO Working Group on the Security Council;
2. International Action Network on Small Arms;
3. NGO Committees on Disarmament, Peace and Security and on Human Rights;
4. The [nuclear] Abolition 2000 Now network;
5. NGO Committees on Sustainable Develop-ment, on Social Development, and on Human Rights;
7. The NGO Conference on Non Governmental Organizations, or CONGO.

Our UN representatives are Lucy Law Webster, Dr. Myles K. Ren, and Dr. Robert Schwartz.