Quakers speak on Ukraine

'Quakers are being encouraged to contact their MPs regarding the need to build preconditions for peace, and to support the rights of conscientious objectors.'

by Rebecca Hardy 21st July 2023

The Quaker group Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) is calling on all governments and international organisations to create ‘the preconditions for a just peace’, in light of the continuing war in Ukraine. This will involve ‘planning the reconstruction of the areas devastated by the war and restitution’, and ‘rehabilitation of the infrastructure destroyed and the rich farmlands damaged’, NFPB said. Quakers are being encouraged to contact their MPs regarding the need to build preconditions for peace, and to support the rights of conscientious objectors.