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Quakers have made a submission to a parliamentary inquiry

by Rebecca Hardy 21st June 2019

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has made a written submission to a parliamentary inquiry into UK policies towards autocratic states.

The submission, co-written by Daniel Jakopovich, BYM’s peace and disarmanent programme manager, and Tobias Wellner, BYM’s East Africa programme manager, provides evidence in favour of active nonviolence for the Foreign Affairs Committee to consider. The committee aims to scrutinise both direct foreign policy relationships with autocracies and the ways in which autocracies interact with the rules-based international system.