Thought for the Week: Practising peace

Jane Pearn reflects on peace as a practice

by Jane Pearn 15th July 2016

I have a confession to make: I’m reluctant to wear a ‘Quakers for Peace’ badge. Like ‘god’, peace means different things to different people. To some, it is avoiding or burying differences; to others, making things right after conflict; for some a state of perpetual (and probably unachievable) harmony; while for others it is simply the lull between wars.