A place for mediation
Oliver Robertson reflects on the value of Quaker mediation
Am I hearing that we want to take this work forward, that we want to intensify our involvement and that we want it to continue at least until 2015? Yes, clerk, that’s what you’re hearing. Those are not the precise words that were said, but they capture the general feeling. It’s the feeling of a Quaker Business Meeting realising it’s taking a bold step and hearing the sense of the Meeting, which had been gathering and coalescing, pinned down by the clerk. The first time I experienced this was at York in July 2009, when Britain Yearly Meeting took the decision to affirm same sex marriage. The second was near Geneva in May 2013, at the Quaker United Nations Committee.
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