How MAW has made its mark – 25 years of challenges and opportunitiesThe Movement for the Abolition of War is 25 years old this year and we warmly invite you to an online meeting to mark the occasion from 7.30 – 9pm on Thursday, 29 October via Zoom. Please register …
Reaching Net Zero? We will never get there without tackling military-related greenhouse gas emissions! As our contribution to the Global Week of Action on Peace & Climate Justice in September, MAW, Tipping Point North South (TPNS) and Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) drafted a letter to Miatta Fahnbullah MP, Secretary …
Why most veterans’ charities do not express anti-war sentiment Dr Colin Alexander, Senior Lecturer in Political Communications at Nottingham Trent University It is a peculiar and interesting anomaly that most veterans’ charities in the UK do not position themselves as anti-war. As non-profit organisations offering post-conflict physical and psychological care, …
You are warmly invited to MAW’s 2026 Remembrance Lecture “The Changing Face of War – Thoughts on the Erosion of Ethics”. We are honoured to have as our speaker Rowan Williams, Chair of Academi Heddwch Cymru (Wales’s peace institute), and former Archbishop of Canterbury Sunday 8th Nov at 3pm, Hamilton …
APRIL 24-29 SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIATHE FIRST CONFERENCE ON TRANSITIONING AWAY FROM FOSSILFUELSThe First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels served as a strategic space fordialogue among a broad range of stakeholders — including government representatives, experts,rural and Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant communities, civil society, climate advocates, industryleaders, and academia — …
MAW Remembrance Lecture for 2008.Hope in a time of war; a religious perspective on peacemakingKathy GallowayThe text of this lecture has recently come to light, and speaks to us as appropriately now as it did eighteen years ago. It can be downloaded here: https://abolishwar.net/wp-content/uploads/2008_rem_lect.pdf Kathy Galloway died in 2025; the …
MAW (Movement for the Abolition of War) condemns the attacks by the US and Israel on Iran. We express our concern that these reckless attacks have now cost lives across the Middle East. We call on the UK Government and the devolved administrations to clearly condemn this unlawful action. We …
The Movement for Abolition of War ( MAW ) condemns the recent US attack on Venezuela and the resulting casualties. The attack was illegal and was a clear breach of International Law, particularly Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, which requires all member states to refrain from the use …
9th November is a busy day for peacemakers! 12:00 National Alternative Remembrance Ceremony, Tavistock Square, WC1H 9EU 13:30 MAW Annual General Meeting, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1H 9BB15:00 MAW’s 2025 Remembrance Lecture “Ending Wars”, Speaker: Lord John Alderdice, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1H 9BBBook here: https://abolishwar.net/remembrance-lecture-2025/ 17:00 “Memorial 2025″Launch, Every …
Statement on the United Nations UN Day, 24th October 2025 Strengthening the UN has always been a key element in MAW’s outlook, and in our programme of work. MAW was founded in the wake of the historic Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in 1999. In retrospect it is clear that …
