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  • 29 Jun 2014
    Armed Forces Day: a diversion from the reality and consequences of war

    The rainstorm of almost tropical ferocity which swept across West Suffolk yesterday afternoon (28 June) was dying down as we assembled for a silent Peace Vigil to mark Armed Forces Day. But the distant thundery grumbles seemed – at the risk of being mocked for the use of Pathetic Fallacy – to be a reminder of the persistence and ubiquity of strife.

  • 3 Jul 2013
    Quaker UN Organisation recognised as influential on armed violence reduction

    The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has been named as one of the 100 most influential global actors in armed violence reduction.

  • 8 Mar 2013
    Women's struggle for equality and peace marked in Sierra Leone

    A team of UN agency representatives has arrived in Sierra Leone to support gender equality and promote the role of women in peace building.

  • 6 Jul 2010
    Peace institute to launch religion and reconciliation programme

    The idea of reconciliation has deep roots in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other faiths, says the director of a new research programme on religion and peacebuilding.

  • 14 Apr 2010
    Seeking viable peace amidst turmoil in Kyrgyzstan

    Kyrgyzstan’s government has fallen, its provisional rulers are untested, and there is as yet no sign of a lasting political settlement, writes John Heathershaw. Yet that does not mean it will automatically follow the example of neighbour Tajikistan and descend into civil war. Peace is difficult but possible.

  • 22 Mar 2010
    Confusing war-making with peace-building

    MPs have left received wisdoms unquestioned in their latest report, which frames war-fighting as peace-building, writes John Heathershaw. This idea is quite modern and in keeping with the spirit of our post-colonial age. Yet its consequence is to mainstream peace-building as a strategy to extend world order without questioning the resultant injustices. There is an alternative.

  • 3 May 2008
    In War and Peace: the hard edge of peace-making in Northern Ireland

    “Some people think that peace-making is easy, but in my experience it requires toughness and resolution, as well as sympathy and integrity.”

  • 5 Mar 2008
    Mennonites assist peace-building for Kenya's tribes and churches

    Forty pastors from five different tribes and denominations met for a peace-building seminar at the Eastleigh Fellowship Centre, located in a semi-slum area of Nairobi, recently. The centre facilitates church and community programmes.