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Peace and War

  • 31 Oct 2006
    Peace and War

    Ekklesia proposes non-violent alternatives to military action as well as peace-making strategies. Ekklesia hit the headlines in 2002 by proposing public consideration of strategies for non-violent regime change in Iraq.

  • 9 May 2013
    Pakistan court orders Government to stop ‘war crime’ drone strikes

    The Peshawar High Court has declared the US guilty of war crimes for its use of drones in North West Pakistan, and ordered the government to stop future strikes.

  • 8 May 2013
    BAE bosses try to hide from scrutiny - and fail

    I’ve just returned from the annual general meeting of BAE Systems, one of the world’s largest arms companies. I was forcibly carried out of the building after challenging the board on BAE’s arms sales to the brutal regimes of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

  • 8 May 2013
    BAE arms dealers evict thirteen critics from AGM

    Arms giant BAE Systems has been shamed by questions about arms sales to oppressive regimes at its AGM, despite moving the venue away from London.

  • 7 May 2013
    UN inquiry has ‘no conclusive findings’ on use of chemical weapons

    An independent United Nations panel says that it has “no conclusive findings” regarding the use of chemical weapons by any of the parties to the conflict in the country.

  • 6 May 2013
    UK urges more arms sales to Bahrain as prince visits Counter Terror Expo

    A British arms sales team from the UK Trade & Investment Defence & Security Organisation has been promoting weapons exports to Bahrain.

  • 5 May 2013
    Small circles and unarmed forces at the National Memorial Arboretum

    War memorials and Quakers do not always get on. The kind of memorialising which is strong on military ceremony and pride does not sit well with us and we tend to avoid it. But we hold it important to remember all people killed in war, civilians as well as combatants. “This is the use of memory – for liberation” TS Eliot wrote in Little Gidding. And if we are to be liberated from bitterness, hatred and the propensity to pass conflict down the generations, we must remember well.

  • 29 Apr 2013
    The Drones Quilt: stitching for Noor

    Last Saturday (27 April) demonstrators gathered for a protest march at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire from where drone attacks on Afghanistan are now controlled. On 7 May, the Drones Quilt – a project initiated by the Fellowship of Reconciliation - will be handed in at Downing Street. Between these two events, I heard a moving ministry from a Friend who had participated in making a square for the quilt.

  • 24 Apr 2013
    Anglicans call for action to promote peace in Korea, East Asia and Pacific

    The threat of military escalation in Korea and Japan was one of many topics discussed by the Second Worldwide Anglican Peace Conference, held in Okinawa 16-22 April.

  • 23 Apr 2013
    Protest targets drones operations centre at RAF Waddington

    Campaigners are calling on the government to stop using unmanned aerial vehicles or 'drones', as Britain prepares to start controlling them from a domestic base.