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Network for Peace Tel: 07794 036 602 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.  Pat Allen Pat Allen is the CND international worker. In the 50s he was a full-time translator /interpreter for the international peace movement. Pat is happy to talk about the international work of CND, London CND including the Nuclear Trains Action Group, or anti-bomb campaigning pre-CND. Pat can be contacted via Network for Peace (mail@networkforpeace.org.uk) or CND, 020 7700 2393. 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 has a network of speakers throughout the Please contact Anne-Marie -
call 020 7281 0297 or email annemarie[at]caat.org.uk Campaign Against Arms Trade tel: 020 7281 0297 Alison Williams is available to
talk on UN Reform and Global Governance. She’s Secretary of the Merton
Branch of UNA and Coordinator 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 CND on 0207 700 2393 or campaigns@cnduk.org Peace education: what
happened at 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 particularly schools. CCND speakers
are experienced in presentations to school students studying GCSE Religious
Education covering peace, Just War, and the morality of war and nuclear
weapons. 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
workers and staff Jim
McCluskey: “I work with the World Court Project, Kingston Peace Council and the Stop the War Coalition with a view to achieving peaceful rather than violent solutions to conflict situations in foreign affairs. Recently I have produced two A5 publications on the subject of ‘The Nuclear Threat’. The titles are ‘The Nuclear Threat: Intolerable and Avoidable - The arguments against nuclear weapons (and the arguments for)’ and ‘The Nuclear Threat: Intolerable and Avoidable - Accidents, misjudgements, and mega Foul-ups and What would nuclear war be like?’ I am particularly interested in speaking about the relation been the ‘Just War’ concept and the present conflicts, nuclear issues including Trident, Militarism and its costs, the loss of a spiritual view of the world and what needs to be done to get back on a hopeful course. I have also had some training in public speaking having been a member of the Toastmasters Club for the last two years.” Jim McCluskey Bsc, MICE. MIStructE, MIHT, ALI. Tel: 020 8892 5704. jim.mcclus@virgin.net
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