Can we demonstrate that war is obsolete?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

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.

July 2005
Publication of the book
'Preparing for Peace'

by asking the experts to analyse war

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