Art of the possible: The Pity of War Working Group
‘The aim is to help keep the terrible cost of war, before the general public’
In 1651, George Fox said that he ‘lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars… I was come into the covenant of peace which was before wars.’ To pursue similar aims, Pity of War is a Quaker-inspired charity attempting to install a powerful sculpture at the National Memorial Arboretum. The aim is to help keep the terrible cost of war, especially for civilians, before the general public. Peace advocacy, we believe, requires different strands: explanation, yes, but people also need to feel the effects of violent conflict on ordinary lives through visual imagery. Remember the affecting impact of the picture of the Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach.
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