Network for Peace

Two-Day Retreat: Desert Wisdom Retreat: Nature, Nomads, Prophets
- inspiring sources of simplicity, clarity, transformative healing and renewal.
Facilitators: Alan Heeks, with musical accompaniment by Dominic Ashmole.
Registration: 9.30am-10am. Retreat Days: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £50 (both days), £30 (per day).
Registration Form: http://www.eicsp.org/downloads-org/category/192-mesp-2012-registration-f...
On-Line Booking: http://www.eicsp.org/mesp-2012-retreatworkshop-events-

Two-Day Retreat: Peace and Quiet - Stillness of Body, Mind and Spirit in the Busy World: Inspired by the Lives and Teachings of the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the Middle Eastern Spiritual Traditions.
Facilitator: Rev Prof Stephen G Wright RN RCNT RNT DipN DANS RPTT MSc FRCN MBE, University of Cumbria, Carlisle. Founding Editor: “Spirituality and Health International,” Chairman: The Sacred Space Foundation.
Registration: 9.30am-10am. Retreat Days: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £80 (both days), £40 (per day).

Pluto Press, Le Monde diplomatique and London Middle East Institute invite you to the launch of: "The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012" - Contributors Gilbert Achcar (SOAS) and Samir Aita (Le Monde diplomatique) will be discussing
The Middle East in Transition: Syria and the ‘Arab Spring’
The event will be chaired by LMD English editorial director Wendy Kristianasen and will be followed by a drinks reception
SOAS NEAREST TUBE: Russell Square or Goodge Street

Calling all artists, creative folk and craftivists.
Last year the National Gallery hosted an evening reception for weapons dealers http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/09/484620.html, celebrating the first day of business at DSEi, the world's largest arms fair.
Italian arms company, Finmeccanica sponsors the gallery: for £30,000 it buys the opportunity to use the gallery's rooms to impress its clients and woo decision-makers. Against such a lavish backdrop it's probably easy to forget that their business is death and destruction.

With Loretta Napoleoni.

With speaker Nick Dearden

With speaker Rana Kabbani.

David Cameron is hosting a conference in London to discuss the future of Somalia. There are media reports saying that Britain is considering imminent military intervention in the country. There will be a protest organised by Hands Off Somalia from 8.30 AM outside Lancaster House in London, calling for a stop to British plans to carve up an already divided and impoverished Somalia.

Stop the War is supporting the protest. Bring your banners, chants, drums, megaphones, horns and whistles in the build up for the main rally at 11am outside the conference on Cleveland Row, London SW1A 1DH.

Public meeting. With Milan Rai, co-editor of Peace News.

Arms dealers, agents of cruel regimes and war profiteers from all over the world have been invited to another Arms Fair in 2013 at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in Custom House.
Anyone who wants to help to get this evil event cancelled will be welcome at an ELAAF meeting.

From Prince Regent, Docklands Light Railway, Station, go up Prince Regent Lane. Cundy Road is first turning on the left.

East London Against Arms Fairs,
c/o Community Involvement Unit, Durning Hall, Earlham Grove, E7 9AB

This year's Compass Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Sennett.

A good society is created through the art of living together. Over the past few decades we have learnt to be consumers, it is now time we re-learnt the art of being citizens, neighbours and co-workers. This challenging lecture will be followed by contributions from a panel of high-profile respondents. We are delighted that Lisa Nandy, MP for Wigan; Deborah Orr, Guardian Columnist; Hannah Worth, Director, Chamberlain Forum and Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK have agreed to respond.

Talk by Dr Thomas Daffern in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Festival of Middle East Spirituality and Peace Festival organised by EICPS (http://www.eicsp.org/).

This talk will be recorded and a transcript made available. Please get in touch if you would be interested in a copy by contacting Dr Daffern on 01301 703053 or email iipsgp@educationaid.net

International Women's Day Celebration 'Building Bridges to Peace' 4-5pm on Millennium Plain. Share and hear stories of women all over the world, join drumming, singing, drawing and build bridges to peace.

Come and celebrate the Jubilee with a party for peace and disarmament! Come in fancy dress/posh frocks. Best hat or crown competition. There will be a short service at 1.30pm - secular event starts at 2pm. There is room to park cars but we may be able to run some transport from London if there is a demand. All welcome!
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/320942244645992/

Well-known activist Maya Evans is speaking to groups around the country about her recent visit to Kabul, Afghanistan (see http://fromhastingstokabul.wordpress.com).

Well-known activist Maya Evans is speaking to groups around the country about her recent visit to Kabul, Afghanistan (see http://fromhastingstokabul.wordpress.com).

Well-known activist Maya Evans is speaking to groups around the country about her recent visit to Kabul, Afghanistan (see http://fromhastingstokabul.wordpress.com).

Challenges Facing Global Abolition
A Panel Discussion with:
Kate Hudson (General Secretary, CND) Historic links between nuclear
power and nuclear weapons: key current problems and challenges;
Dominique Lalanne (Abolition 2000 Europe) The Anglo-French partnerships: nuclear power and nuclear weapons;
Peter Burt (Nuclear Information Service) Anglo-French nuclear
cooperation: the implications for NATO, for Europe and for global abolition;
Shirin Shafaie (SOAS / CASMII) The current situation in the Middle East and the Arab world.

Following a short business meeting, our guest speaker Maya Evans will report on her trip to Afghanistan last December. Since then she has been busy on a speaking tour around Britain. See http://fromhastingstokabul.wordpress.com/
All welcome.

Stop the War's Annual National Conference will discuss the West's interventions in Central Asia and the Middle East and debate and decide our policies, strategy and campaigns for the coming year. It will be addressed by MPs activists and experts. Speakers include Tony Benn, Lindsey German, George Galloway, Mitra Qayoom, Abbas Edalat, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Salma Yaqoob and more.