The 6th Annual Lecture in the series put on by the Grassington & District Peace Group and Skipton Quakers.
The speaker is Professor Jenny Pearce from Bradford University Peace Studies Department and her theme is Violence and the Language of Politics.
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Violence and the Language of Politics.
30th Annual Celebration of the London Peace Pagoda.
30th Annual Celebration of the London Peace Pagoda.
Grassington And District Peace Group AGM 2015.
Tea, coffee and chatter will be available from 7 pm so that we can start the meeting promptly at 7.30, conclude it quickly and move on to “LEGENDS OF LLAMA LAND” Some impressions of Argentina and Uruguay presented by Sally and Patrick Wiegand.
International Women's Day Singathon.
100 songs led by Penny Stone. To Celebrate the Centenary of WILPF and to raise funds.
All Welcome: women, children, men & other...
Peace Sunday
Peace Sunday 2015 will be celebrated on 18 January, the theme is Slaves no more, but brothers and sisters. Pax Christi resource materials for Peace Sunday are now available from the office.
Faith Activism: Does it Work?
Organised by Anabaptist Network of Organisations and Christian Peacemaker Teams. The morning will be made up of a panel discussion, with well-known activists: Christian, Muslim and Humanist, chaired by Beccie D’Cuhna, CEO Greenbelt Festivals. The afternoon will be an opportunity for attendees to discuss topics of importance to them using an Open Space format.
Sexual violence in conflict: From global to local actions.
UK WILPF Annual Seminar.
Sexual violence in conflict: From global to local solutions includes a mock trial of UN resolution 1325, with the audience acting as the jury, a session on how the UN works for women and special reports on 1325 from Eritrean and Somalian women. There will be beauty and information stalls, and attendance certificates are available.
Women only.
Women’s Power to Stop War
WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) Conference. Uniting a Global Movement of Women’s Power to Stop War. Hundreds of peacemakers from all over the world will come together to establish a new peace agenda for the 21st century at the WILPF 2015 Conference.
Putting Courage at the Centre : Gandhi on Civility and Society
A lecture by Uday Singh Mehta
Uday Singh Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center, is a political theorist whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of philosophical traditions.
Are there just wars?
The history and philosophy of bellum justum. Speaker: Costas Douzinas. In 1914, at the beginning of WWI, Cardinals Mercier of Belgium and Billot of France had a heated argument about the sacred nature of pro patria mori. For the Belgian, a soldier who dies defending his country is assured eternal salvation. Such martyrdom is the highest form of love and cleanses a life of sin making the sinner a saint. The French Cardinal disagreed: this is to forget what god sin and forgiveness are. Forgiving sins through secular heroism is theologically indefensible.
Nonviolence And Schooling.
Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.
Gandhi And Nonviolence.
Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.
The Mahatma amongst Friends - Gandhi's relations with Quakers
Quaker History Meeting.
Gandhi's long and varied life can be seen as a series of multifaith encounters, though it was with the Quakers Gandhi had a special relationship. The Friends Meeting House, on Euston Road was the venue of his first public speech when he was in London in 1931, though he had corresponded with the Rowntrees whilst still living in South Africa nearly 30 years before. The talk begins at 6pm promptly.
VIGIL OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR PEACE
Please join us on the International Day of Nonviolence, to remember all those who are victims of war and violence in our world today. We will gather opposite Downing Street, end of Richmond Terrace. There will be a short prayer offered at each hour.
34th GRAND PEACE FETE
Sustaining Activism-Never Easy!
With Lindis Percy, Peace activist since 1980 and co-founder of CAAB (Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases).
Ending the Business of War
With Rafeef Ziadah, Senior Campaigns Officer at War on Want, human activist and performance poet.
Human Rights: help or hindrance to peace and peacemaking
With Paul Gready, Professor and founding Director of the Centre of Applied Human Rights at York University.
Love the soldier - hate the war.
Exploring the militarisation of society. With David Gee, co-founder of ForcesWatch and former Director of Alternatives to Violence Project, Britain.
Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, with Maria Power
This talk will outline the issues facing Northern Ireland in the search for peace and reconciliation, it will present an historical overview of past efforts to secure a positive peace and conclude with some reflections regarding the future of peace building in Northern Ireland.