Remembrance Lecture: Free live event in Central London & also on-line Saturday 12th November 2pm Kate Hudson, General Secretary CND UK “Nuclear Risks in the Light of the Ukraine War“ Welsh Church of Central London30 Eastcastle StreetOxford CircusLondon W1W 8DJ & online. Each year, the Movement for the Abolition of …
Tuesday 5 Apr 2022 to Sunday 1 May 2022 Cornerstone Arts Centre,25 Station Road,Didcot, Oxon,OX11 7NE This mixed media exhibition weaves together words, images, sculpture and music to illustrate the impacts and devastation of war. More here Alongside the art, you will also find poems and statements which challenge the …
UK Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, speaking at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) – [The Arms Fair] – Excel Centre, London Born in a British Army base in Bielefeld, Germany, son of a Major General, Eton, Guards Regiment, lower second class BA from Durham University …
Commodore Steve Moorhouse, Commander United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group, characterises the current mission by HMS Queen Elizabeth, her escorts and her aircraft, as “the most important peacetime deployment in a generation.” MAW President Professor Paul Rogers describes it as “the image of futility as the world’s most deadly security threats …
In January we celebrated the entry into force of the new UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, but our joy was short-lived. On 26/02/21, we heard from Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey that Labour’s support for the ‘nuclear deterrent’ is ‘non-negotiable’. Much worse was to come with the publication of the …
MAW celebrations as Nuclear Prohibition Treaty is ratified MAW members will be among the millions of people delighted to know that The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which opened for signature at UN in New York on 20 September 2017, entered into force on 22 January 2021 when …
Two Executive Committee members travelled to Madrid for the COP25 in December 2019 with the large banner “War Causes Climate Change and Climate Change Causes War” which was seen by thousands of delegates and visitors outside the COP over several days and then took the banner to a major night …
Atomic bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow wrote to PM Johnson to mark the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings. She asked that the UK join the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). MAW sent the letter to UK Party Leaders, asking them to support the treaty.
Introduction to Movement for the Abolition of War Movement for the Abolition of War (MAW) is a voluntary organisation founded in 2001, following the 1999 Hague Appeal for Peace, by Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat FRS, Nobel Peace Laureate, and Bruce Kent. MAW challenges popular thinking about the acceptability of war …
2nd November 2019 We welcomed Richard Reeve of Rethinking Security, Oxford Research Group to give this year’s lecture: “Rethinking Security: How Britain can think globally and act peacefully”. You can download and read the transcript or listen to the lecture here.
