Medact conference highlights peace issues

Medical staff, arms control experts, peacebuilders and front-line humanitarian workers participated at Medact’s ‘Health Through Peace’ conference

by Tara Craig 20th November 2015

Medical staff, arms control experts, peacebuilders and front-line humanitarian workers were among participants at Medact’s ‘Health Through Peace’ conference held at Friends House on 13 and 14 November.

Several hundred people heard the opening lecture from Paul Rogers, of the Bradford School of Peace Studies and the Oxford Research Group. He spoke about ‘War, violence and conflict: global trends 1945-2015’. Paul focused on the period between 1945 and 2045, which he referred to as ‘the century on the edge’. He questioned whether, two-thirds of the way through this ‘century’, cold war lessons have been learned and sufficient wisdom gained ‘to learn to live within our worldwide limits’.