A multi-coloured peace badge leaning against a row of bullets. Photo: By Marek Studzinski on Unsplash.

‘Ordinary citizens – from peacebuilders to local communities – need to create a different conversation.’

Pointing the way: Hannah Brock Womack & Jo Frew want a new approach to shared security

‘Ordinary citizens – from peacebuilders to local communities – need to create a different conversation.’

by Hannah Brock Womack & Jo Frew 2nd October 2026

John Lampen is right (‘International disorder’, 14 August). Quakers and others who care about a demilitarised and just future need to respond to the changing international order with a thoughtfulness that does not retreat into utopian thinking.