Can we
demonstrate that war is obsolete?
Is war successful in achieving its objectives?
Can war be controlled or contained?
What are the costs of war?
What are the
causes of war?
Can the world move forward to another
way?
In 2000, Westmorland General Meeting of the
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, began a PEACE initiative,
called Preparing for Peace, to explore these questions with international
experts and witnesses. Read texts of our papers and public lecture
series and find out more about our Initiative, publication and education
programme.
In November 2003 the lecture series was completed. The main body of the
work comprises 12 lectures and 7 gifted papers. There are 6 papers
underpinning and developing the themes of the lectures; the plan to add to these
is open-ended.
News
Our book 'Preparing for Peace' used as major international Peace conference handout.
One of our expert speakers & a non Friend Dr. Chris Williams, has advised us that our PfP book, was presented to the delegates attending the formal Peace Conference in Geneva in August 2007 on North Korea. All delegates - essentially North Koreans & Americans will be given our book by Dr.Yun-Joo, a Korean who is assistant to Dr. Williams & who co-authored Dr. William's presentation when he spoke to us as listed in our book.
Brian Walker and Daphne Sanders at Bootham School sixth form conference.
See report in The Friend (pdf file)
18 February to 14 March 2007
Speaking tour including Bangkok, Perth, Hobart & New Zealand
Please make contact if you need details, some will be public meetings
More details on Coming Events (and the publicity flyers)
October 2006
Now up to 4,500 copies!
That means over four thousand copies of our book 'Preparing for Peace' have been sold or presented and we are looking forward to the delivery of our next 500 copies any day now.
December 2005
Publication of the booklet
Anatomy of War
(A study guide
for young people)
Click
here for details
July 2005
Publication of the book
'Preparing for Peace - by asking the experts to
analyse war'
Click here for details
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