Alternatives to Violence (AVP) holds workshops in communities and prisons to help people get better at handling conflict without using or suffering from violence. The workshops,…
Quakers are celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Peace Declaration, which is one of the bases for our Peace Testimony. Let’s get it as right as we can. 1661 was an acute…
As the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) Representative for Disarmament and Peace I have spent the last sixteen years working in a world of high politics, competing agendas, and…
Deborah Cadbury’s recent book, Chocolate Wars, mentions the shop owned by Joseph Rowntree Senior, ‘Grocer and Tea Dealer’. It became a convergence point for the junior…
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