Please sign this petition to ‘Cancel Trident spending – help flood victims’ – https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/UK_Government_Cancel_Trident_spending_help_flood_victims/ Supported by MAW, CND, Pax Christi, JPIC, Christian CND
No military attack on Syria! There is to be a ‘no military attack on Syria’ presence 5pm tomorrow, Wednesday 28th August, at Downing St. The MAW banner will be there – anyone free to join Bruce Kent for an hour or so most welcome.Date Added: 27th Aug 2013 Peace History …
MAW is one of the organisations sponsoring a petition calling for the end of recruitment of 16 year olds into the UK armed forces. Commit our country to peace during the up-coming WW1 commemorations by ending under-18 recruitment.
Peace History Conference 2013 Manchester, 9-10 November Peace History Conference 2012 Peace History Conference 2011 Peace History Conference 2010
Watch our new short ‘taster’ for the “Conflict and Climate Change” DVD…
“An extraordinarily good resource, and a hopeful one about engaging with the issues of conflict and climate change” – Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers Buy now for just £9 + P&P
Movement for the Abolition of War PRESS RELEASE EMBARGO: 18:00 HOURS, 2 OCTOBER 2013 SCHOOLS DVD HIGHLIGHTS LINK BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND WARMembers of the press are invited to attend the launch at 6.00pm on Wednesday October 2 at the National Union of Teachers, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H …
In June 2011 the Oxford Research Group produced a discussion paper on the legal obligations governing the use of armed drones. Read the press release and download the paper. Lesley Docksey of MAW has written an article by on this and some of the other legal issues surrounding these weapons.
“Catch 16-22: Recruitment and retention of minors in the British armed forces“ We think of child soldiers as being a problem in places like the Congo. But “child soldiers” include all those under the age of 18. And under those terms we enlist them in Britain too. This report by …
In 2010, the British Pugwash Group published a statement in which three distinguished scientists argue that “War is not inevitable: aggressiveness can be tamed”. British Pugwash is the UK arm of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international network of scientists and others concerned about the social …
