Protest, Power & Change is the theme of the 2017 Peace History Conference. Organised by MAW in partnership with Imperial War Museums, it will take place on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June in London. Frank Cottrell Boyce, children’s novelist and screenwriter, will open the conference. Among topics on …
Vickie Hawkins, Executive Director, MSF UK The annual MAW Remembrance Day LectureSunday 13th November, 3pmImperial War MuseumLambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ This talk looked at some of the challenges experienced by Médecins Sans Frontières, an independent, medical, humanitarian organisation, over the past fifteen years, as it works to provide …
‘Conscience and Conscription: Resistance to War 1916-2016’Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October 2016Venues: Holy Trinity Church and Leeds City Museum A brief report of the event: We saw the range of resistance by CO’s – from degrees of accommodation with the state to the pure martyr ‘absolutist’. Jude Wright …
Professor Paul Rogers 8th November 2015 Professor Paul Rogers was speaking at MAW’s Annual Remembrance Day Peace Lecture on8th Nov 2015 at the Imperial War Museum, London. You can watch the whole video of Prof Paul Rogers’ incisive but hopeful analysis, or a six-minute edit, below. Full talk Six-minute edit
Saturday October 11th, 2014 The day long event, which took place at the Imperial War Museum in London, offered an array of fascinating talks from distinguished members of the peace and academic communities. The 150 participants were welcomed by Terry Charman, senior historian at the Imperial War Museum, and following an …
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Following the report’s publication, the thoughts of Philippe Sands QC, delivered as MAW’s 2010 Remembrance Sunday Lecture at the Imperial War Museum, make interesting and topical reading.
Voices of concern are increasingly discussing the likelihood of conflict breaking out across the world due to escalating climate change. However, although there are good grounds for pessimism, we could see this as a problem which, although severe and challenging, faces us with a choice – do we respond with …
Please read the transcript of the annual MAW Remembrance Lecture given by Caroline Lucas MEP at the Imperial War Museum, London, on 14 November 2004.
Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908 – 2005) was a Nobel Peace prize winner. He refused to work on the atomic bomb, was a founder of Pugwash, the international group of scientists, and was a founder member of MAW and its first President. You can read a brief biography here. You …
