Network for Peace

Just Supper at 7.30pm. Talk at 8.15pm with Phil Evans from Bucks Christian Aid, who will speak on Christian Aid’s current campaign to raise awareness of Climate Change & its effects on communities worldwide. To reserve a place at Open Table, please ring 01908 242190 or email bookings@thewellatwillen.org.uk, giving 24 hours’ notice.

Deirdre O'Byrne leads a discussion of World War One prose and poetry written from non-British cultures.
Free, in the shop after our Sunday opening, no need to book.

Speaker: Pat Gaffney, General Secretary of Pax Christi. Some of the lesser known stories from the First World War are of the peacemakers of the time. Their efforts and persistence can encourage us to look at where action for peace needs to happen today if we really want to work towards a future without war.

All are welcome.

This year the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award 2014 will be awarded to Godric Bader and the Scott Bader Commonwealth for the alternative business model created by him and his family. The establishment of the Scott Bader Commonwealth provides an alternative economic model of trustee-in-common, with a structure that has an emphasis on cooperation, equitable wealth distribution, charity giving, protection of natural resources and an opposition to taking part in re-armament.

Stories of War will be explored in a variety of ways at Folkestone Book Festival 2014. How we remember war, its impact and how we write about its horrors will be some of the topics discussed this year at Folkestone Book Festival. Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, entertaining us at the movies or in video games. Our taxes pay for those war machines. Our loved ones are killed and maimed. War is unending and violence deeply entrenched in our society.

A talk and discussion led by ADAM HOCHSCHILD.

Three films by Joe Jenkins, The Racket, exposing WW! Profiteering; Contempt of Conscience, Have we all become financial conscripts?; Just War, When, if ever, is it right to kill?

Hereford Peace Council exhibition

Concert commemorating the first world war

Discussion of Conscientious Objection, with John Voysey, who has been a CO since 1947.

Speaker: Oliver McTernon of Forward Thinking on 'Peace is a Fruit of Remembrance'

Plus opportunities for networking with justice and peace activists from around the country, and to get updates on campaigns from national agencies.

Please bring your own lunch. Tea and coffee will be provided.

After Israel’s latest military assault on occupied and besieged Gaza, we invite you to join us for a meeting and discussion with legal experts and campaigners, as we ask: where does international law stand on Israel? Event guest speakers: John Dugard, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2001–2008; judge ad hoc International Court of Justice.

The outcome of the Scottish referendum threatened to cause serious problems for the UK's nuclear weapons and the Trident replacement programme. With the Scottish people having voted against independence, what now for the future of the UK's nuclear arsenal?
Find out in a discussion with Professor William Walker (University of St. Andrews) and Professor Malcolm Chalmers (RUSI), chaired by Dr Nick Ritchie (University of York and British Pugwash).
Followed by an informal drinks reception.

On Thursday 16th October, Shell is celebrating its sponsorship of the National Gallery's new Rembrandt exhibition, with an exclusive 'gala evening' for special guests and highly ranked staff! With a meagre contribution to the gallery, Shell is buying social legitimacy for its dodgy deeds worldwide.
Join the Art Not Oil coalition, as we give Shell and its guests a welcome they won't forget! Wear masks and cloaks, bring banners and songs, and join our soiree to creatively expose Shell's injustices and climate crimes.

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Remembering The Real WW1's autumn programme of events starts with a rare opportunity to hear internationally renowned author & historian Adam Hochschild speak, based on his book 'To End All Wars – How World War 1 Divided Britain'. If you haven't already read Adam's book, copies will be available at the event.

Speakers: Sami Ramadani (Guardian Columnist & Iraqi Exile); Marian Connolly (Palestine Solidarity Campaign).

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.

Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2014. With Tariq Ali. Tariq Ali is a longstanding editor at the New Left Review, and has written over two dozen books on history and politics, seven novels and scripts for stage and screen. He will speak about how history can become distorted, instrumentalised and decontextualised when viewed from the ideological needs of today's establishments.

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.

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.