Peace work in Ukraine
John Lampen writes about a Quaker peace initiative in Ukraine
In early May of 2014 Mikhail Roshchin, of Moscow Meeting, and Roland Rand, of Tallinn Friends Worship Group in Estonia, brought a concern to the Europe and Middle East Section (EMES) of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC). They wished to travel to Ukraine to find out what ordinary people were experiencing in the midst of violent conflict and ask if there was anything Quakers could do in a modest way to foster local peace initiatives. Friends who gathered in Strasbourg for the EMES annual meeting recognised and upheld this concern, and asked EMES to facilitate it by banking any money collected for it.
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