Quakers witnessing outside Downing Street. Photo: Elizabeth Payne for Britain Yearly Meeting.
Building a movement for peace
David Mowat considers what is distinctive in Quaker peacebuilding work and invites Friends to think about how to take it further
On 21 January 2017 unprecedented women’s marches all over the world showed great rivers of hopeful and powerful humanity resisting the ominous growth of exclusive nationalism and the corporate monster eating its own capitalist tail. How, though, can Quakers contribute to a global grassroots movement for peacebuilding, and sustainable human life with justice?