Category: <span>Events</span>

Category: Events

AGM 2024

Movement for the Abolition of War ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2024 to be held at 2pm, Sunday 10 November 2024 at Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD AGENDA 1 Apologies for absence2 Minutes of Annual General Meeting 2023 and matters arising3 Notification of any other business4 Chairperson’s report5 Acting Treasurer’s …

Mererid Hopwood

MAW’s 2024 Remembrance Lecture was delivered on 10/11/2024 by Professor Mererid Hopwood“Imagining Peace: Taking inspiration from the 1923–24 Welsh Women’s Peace Petition.” To view Mererid’s inspirational talk, please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNSkZc7eus Each year, the Movement for the Abolition of War invites an expert to give the Remembrance Lecture, and in 2024 …

COP 28

MILITARY EMISSIONS AND MILITARY SPENDING EVENTS AT COP28 IN DUBAI: COP28 is almost upon us so here is more information on the military emissions and military spending events which will take place in Dubai: four official side events and two in the International Climate Dialogue Pavilion. (See below). Our colleague …

Candidates 2023

Movement for the Abolition of War Annual General Meeting Saturday 11 November 2023 Who’s who and candidates for election President: Professor Paul Rogers. We are delighted and honoured to have Paul as President of MAW. He is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and has worked …

MAW DSEI Event

As part of the Resist the DSEI* arms fair programme 5-15 September, MAW has organised leafletting events in London. (*Defence and Security Equipment International – a biennial defence and security trade exhibition.) Friday 8 September 12noon – 4pm. We will leaflet outside the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, …

Michael Mears

MAW Remembrance Lecture for 2023.The role of the arts and culture in promoting peace and opposing war Fifty people were privileged to hear Michael Mears in full flow, showing us the power of the spoken word as well as of song, art and music to move the human spirit towards …

Bikes for Peace talk

28 March 2023 7 rides – 5 with a group, 2 solo; 5 about peace, 2 about climate change; 4 by bike, 2 by trike, 1 by tandem. See the video here! Illustrated with wonderful slides of bike rides in the countryside around his home in West Yorkshire, as well …

Poem for Bruce

This poem was read by its author, Mererid Hopwood, at the Tree Planting for Bruce, 4th March 2023 in Finsbury Park. See the video here. Apostle of Peace We watched the mind behind the bright brow think now is the time to chime the bell of peace. We witnessed how …