Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term movement for a culture of peace and nonviolence free from war, poverty, racism, environmental destruction and the epidemic of violence.
National Justice & Peace Open Networking Day
Church Action on Poverty will present their new campaign on the right to food.
WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) AGM and spring seminar.
All welcome - details later.
Speakers: Hannah Brock, War Resisters’ International. Symon Hill, writer and associate of Christian political thinktank Ekklesia. Emma Sangster, Forces Watch. More tba.
International Alert’s Talking Peace Festival is returning to London for its second year this autumn with an even bigger series of creative events around the International Day of Peace (21 September).
This year's peace award is being presented to Bike for Peace, http://www.bikeforpeace.info/
A concert of songs inspired by Gandhi's message for the young and young at heart.
Disabled Accessible.
The AGM is an important event where Conscience engages with its membership in making the big decisions about what we want, how we wish to tackle militarism in the UK and how we can make Britain a country that stands for peace.
The Children's Mystery Walk along the London Peace Trail is primarily for children aged 5 to 11 and is a fun day out for all the family. Children are given a Mystery Walk puzzle book and a Mystery Walk passport. They find clues, solve puzzles and decode messages along the route in order to get their passport stamped at each site.
See flyer for more info.
Discover some of the people and places in London associated with international peacemaking.
Guided walk along the Central London Peace Trail with Bruce Kent and Valerie Flessati of the Movement for the Abolition of War.
Meet by Gandhi's statue in Tavistock Square at 10.30am.
A free events with a panel of guest speakers. The panel will discuss developments in the peace movement such as nuclear disarmament, militarisation in society and non-military security.
Our speakers are now confirmed: Natalie Bennet: Leader of the Green Party. Emma Sangster: Forces Watch. Marigold Bentley: Quaker Peace and Social Witness.
The 6th Annual Lecture in the series put on by the Grassington & District Peace Group and Skipton Quakers.
The speaker is Professor Jenny Pearce from Bradford University Peace Studies Department and her theme is Violence and the Language of Politics.
