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Links to overseas peace organisations |
Network for Peace 5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DY Tel: 020 7278 3267 fax: 020 7278 0444 (shared
fax, mark fao: NfP) Email: NfP Speakers list Do you
need to find a speaker for a meeting? Feel free to contact any of the
following people who can speak on various peace-related topics. If you
have speakers and would like them listed here, please send details! NB. At
the moment, only those speakers representing NfP member organisations are
listed here.  Karl Miller BSc, CdipA&F, MIEEE, MCP - ARC Secretary
& Web Site Editor Tel:
07903 967 355 info@arcuk.org Karl has
spoken all over the country, mainly on Arms Reduction Coalition (ARC) and
Article 26 of the UN charter. He has attended many peace conferences both in
the Vijay Mehta MA is an author and global activist for
peace, development, human rights and environment. His books include, ‘The
Fortune Forum Code: For a Sustainable Future’, ‘The United Nations and Its
Future in the 21st Century’, and ‘Arms No More’. He is president of VM Centre
for Peace and co-founder and trustee of Fortune Forum charity which works for
the eradication of poverty, environmental sustainability, halting the
onslaught of diseases, protection of human rights, and peacebuilding. He is
chair of Arms Reduction Coalition, Co-chair of World Disarmament Campaign and
Vice Chair of Action for United Nations Renewal. He is a member of the
council of International Peace Bureau (IPB) and National Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament (CND). The main
areas on which he works and speak are as follows:
More
info: http:///www.vmpeace.org Email: vijay@vmpeace.org Frank Jackson
is co-chair of the World Disarmament Campaign and on the management group of
Network for Peace. Topics he can offer include Lessons from a Century of
Conflict; Problems and Possibilities for Conversion of Military Industry to
Civilian Production; Trade Unionists and Peace; The United Nations –
Humanity’s Best Hope or a Lost Cause?; Religious Influence on Conflict - A
Humanist View; The militarisation of the European Union and how to stop it;
How to Change the World - Political Parties, Pressure Groups or Direct
Action? (This last aimed primarily at young people.) See Frank’s CV here. editor.worlddisarm@ntlworld.com Campaign Against Arms Trade can provide speakers on most arms
trade issues. Please contact Beccie - call 020 7281 0297 or email beccie@caat.org.uk.
Alison
Williams is available to talk on UN Reform and Global
Governance. She’s Secretary of the
Merton Branch of UNA and Chair of UNGA-Link Richard Johnson will give talks on:
Aside
from being a CND Council Member (for East Midlands) and Co-Chair/ Treasurer
Leicester CND, Richard used to teach/research cultural studies at Nottingham
Trent Uni and before that at Contact: richard.johnson6@ntlworld.com
George Farebrother available to talk on the law as it
relates to nuclear weapons, particularly the CND Any of
the following are able to give talks on Trident:
They can be
booked by ringing Ben Folley, CND Campaigns Officer, on 0207 700 2393 or campaigns@cnduk.org Christian CND. For a speaker with a more Christian focus on
nuclear disarmament in general as well as Trident renewal and the NPT,
contact Christians@cnduk.org 020
7700 4200. For meetings, conferences and schools. Peace Brigades International provide speakers who have
returned from the field, working in CAAB is a campaign....... grounded in
a deep concern and opposition to weapons of mass destruction in general and
nuclear weapons in particular - specifically the proposed American Missile
Defense/Theater Missile Defense (AMD/TMD) systems/Trident focussed on
American bases in the Contact:
Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases,
tel no: 01423 884076 mobile: 07949897904
email: percy@starbeck.eclipse.co.uk website:
www.caab.org.uk Quaker
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