PRESIDENT: Paul Rogers
Vice-presidents
Colin Archer. Active in peace, development and human rights movements since 1970, including various roles in CND, Colin was Secretary General of the International Peace Bureau from 1990 to 2017, and played active roles in the Hague Appeal for Peace, the Global Campaign for Peace Education, and since 2005 Disarmament for Sustainable Development and the Global Campaign on Military Spending, in which he is still involved.
Martin Bell OBE. A former BBC war reporter, MP for Tatton 1997-2001, and currently a UNICEF UK Ambassador. MAW Vice-President since 2006.
Christine Blower. General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) from 2009 to 2016 (the first woman in this post), and now a Labour peer, she has sat in the House of Lords as Baroness Blower since 4 November 2019. Christine supported the launch of MAW’s DVD “Conflict & Climate Change” and has been an active vice-president of MAW since 2013.
Diana Francis. A lifelong peace campaigner and founding member of Rethinking Security, Diana has many years of international experience acting as a facilitator, trainer, mediator and consultant supporting groups of people working for change, and has written several books on war and peace making. At home in Bath she is a faithful member of the city’s Stop War group.
John Gittings – active in the early years of CND; China correspondent and foreign leader-writer for The Guardian for many years. Member of the editorial team for the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace (2010, OUP) and author of The Glorious Art of Peace (2018, OUP).
Mererid Hopwood. A celebrated Welsh poet and National Eisteddfod Chair Winner, Mererid is an academic and a lifelong campaigner for peace, working particularly within the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in Wales. Mererid has recently been instrumental with others in creating the Academi Heddwch Cymru – a peace institute within the Welsh universities.
Officers of the Committee
(elected November 2024)
Co-Convenors: Hilary Evans, Sally Reynolds
- Chair: –
- Vice-Chair: –
- ActingTreasurer: Gill Hurle
- Secretary: –
Other Committee Members
- David Collins
- Tim Devereux
- Gill Hurle (Membership Secretary)
- Sue Gilmurray
- Helen Horton
- Heather Speight
- Arthur West
Abolish War team.
- Editor: Helen Riley
- Proof-reader: Valerie Flessati