Network for Peace

A dayschool from the people who brought you the Rebellious Media Conference – on using the internet to strengthen our groups, and to campaign more effectively.
A gathering for grassroots and local activists with web experts including Emma Sangster (Peace News), Cedric Knight (GreenNet), Kirk Jackson (Campaign Against Arms Trade) and others.

Speaker: Lady Shirley Williams. Shirley Williams reflects on her mother Vera Brittain's classic memoire of the First World War and the changing attitudes to war from the 'lost generation' through to today. Shirley Williams is a politician, academic and former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.

Speaker: Dr Robin Archer

Why did radicals retreat on the eve of the Great War, even where opposition was strongest? What are the lessons for us today?

Robin Archer is Associate Professor in Political Sociology and Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE.

Speaker: Professor Kimberly Hutchings

Professor Hutchings offers a feminist critique of the idea of just war and calls for the renewal of forms of pacifism and non-violent politics pioneered in feminist opposition to WWI.

Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London.

Speaker: Professor Kimberly Hutchings

Professor Hutchings offers a feminist critique of the idea of just war and calls for the renewal of forms of pacifism and non-violent politics pioneered in feminist opposition to WWI.

Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London.

A talk by Gabriel Carlyle and Emily Johns about the individuals and groups that opposed the First World War. The talk is based on the series of posters by Emily Johns (commisioned by Peace News) that depict the anti-war movement of WWI. The posters can be seen at Morlan 7-14 January (official opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10-12 & 2-4).

Inspired by E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, emerging physical theatre company, Open Heart Surgery brings you First Draft, where two actors play twelve characters. Jostling with the vital questions of our time: Is war inevitable? Have we lost all hope for humanity? A satirical statement against apathy.

Weekly vigil, 10am-12.30pm, outside the Japanese Embassy 101-104 Piccadilly, London W1, in solidarity with Japanese anti-nuclear protestors.

A Land Fit For Heroes - War and the Working Class 1914-1918 will examine how the war changed society, radically altering the social, economic, cultural and political outlook of the British people.

Southbank Centre marks Remembrance Sunday with talks, free events and Britten’s ‘War Requiem.

Veterans For Peace and supporters are invited to attend a Remembrance Gathering in preparation for our ceremony at The Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.

With Maya Evans.
After 14 years British forces have officially concluded their war in Afghanistan, but what is the legacy of the conflict? Maya Evans, Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence UK, shares her thoughts and insights, based in part on several recent visits to the country.

With Deborah Withers, Alex Wardrop, and Charlotte Cooper.
Launch of ‘The Para-Academic Handbook’, which explores practical ways to liberate academia from those internal processes which are crippling the desire for learning, creating, teaching, and cooperation, which academia otherwise claims to foster.

With Agata Pyzik.
Marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Agata will be speaking about the continued cultural divide that separates East and West Europe, as explored in her recent book published by Zero Books.

With Kajsa Ekis Ekman.
Join us for this rare opportunity to hear Swedish feminist Kajsa Ekis Ekman discuss her polemic on the psychology of sex work, in which she also criticizes the booming surrogacy industry.
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With Francesca Moore and Colin Toogood.
‘Bhopal: Facing 30’ is the culmination of a photographic project that portrays the site of the 1984 Bhopal disaster and the people that continued to be affected, with the book being produced to commemorate the 30th anniversary.

With former Weatherman Jeff Laster
To mark the Weatherman's 45th anniversary former Weatherman Jeff Laster will discuss whether 'Violence against People' and 'Violence against Property' radical activism are redundant in the U.S., UK and rest of the West.

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.

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.

WAR MATTERS, Chester Yang, UK 2013 [U], 50 mins