Issue 21-01-2011
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The Peace Testimony
350th anniversary celebrated
Quakers around the world are marking the 350th anniversary of the first formal declaration of the Quaker Peace Testimony. Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) have launched a wide range of initiatives to stimulate awareness of the testimony and action throughout 2011. They are encouraging Friends to reflect on the historic declaration and...
The Armed Forces: time for change
The Peace Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends
Peace: making a difference
What does it mean to have a commitment to peace in a world which is faced with climate change, environmental destruction and resource depletion?’ asks Sunniva Taylor of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW).
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Alternatives to Violence: expect the best
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, led by volunteers, have a broad range of participants. Some may want to control violent behaviour that is damaging their relationships. Others come out...
Quaker rescues recorded
Dilemmas of a pacifist stand
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 historical moment for Friends. John Punshon, in his Portrait in Grey says that: ‘4,230 Quakers were imprisoned because they...
Living out the Peace Testimony
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 compromise. It can be difficult, given the daily ‘realities’ of this world, to stay connected to the basis of ‘the Peace...
Arms exports now all right for Stephen Green
The government’s new trade minister has confirmed that he is happy to promote arms exports – only hours after a national newspaper claimed that they were troubling his conscience.