Network for Peace

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.

Presented by Forces Watch and Veterans For Peace UK. With: Steve Pratt – “About the Making of a Dangerous Individual”.

An anti-oppression workshop for people committed to social change.
A participatory workshop for people who want to challenge and overthrow all kinds of oppression – both in society at large and in our movements for social change.

With Glenn Moss.
Glenn Moss recounts how a new wave of radical ideas helped fuel the anti-apartheid struggle through the hard times of the 1970s.

Marcel Cartier in conversation with Sukant Chandan.
Our guests discuss the continuing ties between North Korea and the black power movement in the U.S. which date back to a relationship that was built with the Black Panther Party in the ’60s.

Mulk Raj Anand’s Across the Black Waters : remembering Indian soldiers in WW1’ with Alistair Niven

Man Booker Prize judge Alistair Niven discusses the politics of Indian soldiers in the First World War, as explored in Mulk Raj Anand’s recently republished classic book on the subject, ‘Across the Black Water’.

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.

Every two years, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, DSEi has been held in London. Hundreds of arms companies and thousands of delegates come to do business and buy advanced weapons. These weapons are used to kill and oppress people around the world.

DSEi plans to return to London in Sept 2015: we want to make sure that these plans are resisted, both in the months leading up to the fair, and if it happens, during the fair itself.

Through its subsidiary UAV Engines, Elbit Systems operates a factory in Staffordshire. The company regularly exports military equipment to Israel. Elbit is also a part of the U-TACS partnership manufacturing the Watchkeeper drone for the Ministry of Defence.

We are calling for people from across the UK to join a demonstration at Elbit’s UAV Engines factory to demand a military embargo on sales to Israel and from Israeli companies and to demand the closure of the factory.

The London Transport Museum takes sponsorship money from Thales, the eleventh largest arms company in the world. Thales supplies missiles, drones and other military products, and has sold to repressive regimes such as Saudi Arabia, Russia, Colombia, Kazakhstan and the UAE.

London CAAT are running a campaign to ask the museum to end their deal with Thales and to agree not to take money from arms companies in the future. Join us to give this message to the museum and tell the public that arms companies have no place in our public institutions.

We have witnessed the horrific impact of arming Israel as it attacks Gaza, and the repression in Bahrain and Egypt where UK weapons have been used to repress pro-democracy campaigners. It's time to take action. Join campaigners from across the North West for a day of workshops, and explore how you can make a difference.

A Peace Education Network workshop.
Increased military involvement in schools is a policy championed by the current UK government. This has meant funding the development of new cadet corps, fast-track training as teachers for former soldiers, and encouraging the adoption by schools of a military ethos.
The Peace Education Network invite teachers, parents, governors, and any others involved in school to critically reflect on your experiences as we explore the benefits, risks, problems, and concerns of military involvement in education.