30th Annual Celebration of the London Peace Pagoda.

Tea, coffee and chatter will be available from 7 pm so that we can start the meeting promptly at 7.30, conclude it quickly and move on to “LEGENDS OF LLAMA LAND” Some impressions of Argentina and Uruguay presented by Sally and Patrick Wiegand.

100 songs led by Penny Stone. To Celebrate the Centenary of WILPF and to raise funds.
All Welcome: women, children, men & other...

Peace Sunday 2015 will be celebrated on 18 January, the theme is Slaves no more, but brothers and sisters. Pax Christi resource materials for Peace Sunday are now available from the office.

Organised by Anabaptist Network of Organisations and Christian Peacemaker Teams. The morning will be made up of a panel discussion, with well-known activists: Christian, Muslim and Humanist, chaired by Beccie D’Cuhna, CEO Greenbelt Festivals. The afternoon will be an opportunity for attendees to discuss topics of importance to them using an Open Space format.

UK WILPF Annual Seminar.
Sexual violence in conflict: From global to local solutions includes a mock trial of UN resolution 1325, with the audience acting as the jury, a session on how the UN works for women and special reports on 1325 from Eritrean and Somalian women. There will be beauty and information stalls, and attendance certificates are available.
Women only.

WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) Conference. Uniting a Global Movement of Women’s Power to Stop War. Hundreds of peacemakers from all over the world will come together to establish a new peace agenda for the 21st century at the WILPF 2015 Conference.

A lecture by Uday Singh Mehta
Uday Singh Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center, is a political theorist whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of philosophical traditions.

The history and philosophy of bellum justum. Speaker: Costas Douzinas. In 1914, at the beginning of WWI, Cardinals Mercier of Belgium and Billot of France had a heated argument about the sacred nature of pro patria mori. For the Belgian, a soldier who dies defending his country is assured eternal salvation. Such martyrdom is the highest form of love and cleanses a life of sin making the sinner a saint. The French Cardinal disagreed: this is to forget what god sin and forgiveness are. Forgiving sins through secular heroism is theologically indefensible.

Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.

Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.

Quaker History Meeting.
Gandhi's long and varied life can be seen as a series of multifaith encounters, though it was with the Quakers Gandhi had a special relationship. The Friends Meeting House, on Euston Road was the venue of his first public speech when he was in London in 1931, though he had corresponded with the Rowntrees whilst still living in South Africa nearly 30 years before. The talk begins at 6pm promptly.

Please join us on the International Day of Nonviolence, to remember all those who are victims of war and violence in our world today. We will gather opposite Downing Street, end of Richmond Terrace. There will be a short prayer offered at each hour.

With Lindis Percy, Peace activist since 1980 and co-founder of CAAB (Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases).

With Rafeef Ziadah, Senior Campaigns Officer at War on Want, human activist and performance poet.

With Paul Gready, Professor and founding Director of the Centre of Applied Human Rights at York University.

Exploring the militarisation of society. With David Gee, co-founder of ForcesWatch and former Director of Alternatives to Violence Project, Britain.

This talk will outline the issues facing Northern Ireland in the search for peace and reconciliation, it will present an historical overview of past efforts to secure a positive peace and conclude with some reflections regarding the future of peace building in Northern Ireland.

week for peace will feature exciting community-based events in and around Nottingham exploring peace.