By David Somerville, Our Lady & St Cuthbert parishOn the 2nd April, around 200 people joined a march organised by the Bradford Friends of Palestine in Baildon, Shipley to the gate of Teledyne who make high-tech weapons for use by the Israeli military.They are on the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) list of suppliers […]
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14 Mar – Peace Education and Conflict Resolution
PEACE EDUCATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTIONBy Matthew Maslen, Newsletter EditorIn February, I attended a training day at the University of Bradford. It was collaboratively run by PeaceJam and the University of Bradford’s Peace Studies department.PeaceJam has deep roots in the University of Bradford’s Peace Studies Department, which is where our UK body was originally set up […]
18 Feb – Fragility of Freedom, Holocaust Memorial Day
By Matty Maslen, Newsletter EditorEarlier this month, I was invited to attend the Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at the University of Bradford, organised by the Peace Studies department. This was the sixth consecutive year that the department had gathered to remember the victims of the Holocaust, and of all genocides since then.The theme for Holocaust […]
10 Jan – Nuclear Ban Week – New York
By Matty Maslen, Newsletter Editor; photo credit to Darren Ornitz, ICANFrom the 27th of November to the 1st of December last year, I had the privilege to attend the Second Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2MSP TPNW).For this article I’ve written a Q&A with myself, using questions […]
11 Dec – What can we do about the conflict in Gaza?
By Carol Burns, Leeds Diocese Pax Christi grp ‘If we don’t learn to live together, we are doomed, this land will be our graveyard’ -these are the words of a representative of the Parents Circle Family Forum. (https://www.theparentscircle.org/en/pcff-home-page-en/) As helpless bystanders, sometimes we can feel the same. There is no solution unless there is negotiation, […]
31 Oct – The Nonviolence of Jesus in a Violent World
By Carol Burns, Leeds Diocese Pax Christi groupWe made a decision for our Autumn Day of Shared Reflection (held on 28 October 2023) that we would focus on personal reflection. The decision to focus on nonviolence was all the more significant because of the unfolding conflict in Israel Palestine.As Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk […]
19 Sep – new premises for the Bradford Peace Museum
By Liz Firth, Commission member & Peace Museum TrusteeThe Peace Museum, currently based in Bradford City Centre, has announced it is to relocate to new premises at Salts Mill in Saltaire. The move is made possible due to a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £245,651 for an exciting heritage project, ‘IMAGINE: Creating The Peace Museum […]