There will be a short vigil in Wokingham to mark International Conscientious Objectors Day.
With stories of Conscientious Objection from Leicester, Europe and North America.
All welcome to attend this short vigil in All Saints Churchyard to mark International Conscientious Objectors Day.
Join us in front of the Conscientious Objectors' Commemorative Stone for speeches, songs and a moment of quiet reflection. The event will also be live streamed for those who want to join online.
Gathering at 12.30pm-1.30pm Friends Meeting House Ship Street, speaker with Q and A followed by short walk to the War Memorial to lay a Peace Poppy Wreath and read poems at. Open to all.
Talk by John Cooper of Fellowship of Reconciliation, for the Museum of Primative Methodism. It’ll be a look at WW1 COs and their wider influence on the approach to peace/peacemaking in the church.
Four panel sessions of an informed debate on conscientious objection from legal, philosophical, theological and religious perspectives, and finally a discussion on how legislators and governments in l
Speakers:
Donald Saunders will be sharing with us his experiences as a Conscientious Objector during the Second World War.
Conscience webinar.
We are delighted that Prof Lois Bibbings, Professor of Law, Gender & History at the University of Bristol, has agreed to be our guest speaker.
We would love you to join us!
Conscience is organising its first webinar: ‘Voices of Conscientious Objection‘.
Speaker is Symon Hill, Peace Pledge Union.
Just over 100 years ago, British conscientious objectors were locked down in this country against their will
Quakers and the Friends of Manchester Peace Gardens will hold a vigil on the steps of the Friends' Meeting House, Mount Street, central Manchester.
Unveiling of a plaque in honour of Haringey’s 350 Conscientious Objectors outside The Salisbury Hotel, Green Lanes, N4 1JX. On this very spot anti-war meetings took place in World War One.
Liverpool Pax Christi group are showing the 30-minute documentary film ‘Watford’s Quiet Heroes’ at their May meeting. The film is about Conscientious Objectors in World Ward One. Everyone is welcome.
A vigil in the Walled Garden, Ledbury.
Join Leicester CND, the Red Leicester Choir and Christian peace groups to mark International Conscientious Objectors’ Day at the memorial stone to CO’s from WW1 on Peace Walk.
Join us to mark International CO Day with a special event at The Peace Museum.
EDINBURGH. Conscientious Objectors’ Day. Edinburgh Peace and Justice centre are organising a vigil with Protest in Harmony.
A new sculpture by Al Johnson. http://tinyurl.com/y83rpeou
This year’s focus is on COs in South Korea.
