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 Executive Member John Hills visited the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi in October 2016.
An information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. Published 2013 by Fellowship of Reconciliation, Pax Christi, Peace Pledge Union, Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Network for Peace AGM 2013 report, with reports of the talks by Sam Walton, Quaker Peace and Social Witness, and Emma Sangster, Forces Watch on ‘Marching orders for the military ethos: a culture of peace vs a culture of war’ – How and why the government is planning to increase …
In June 2011 the Oxford Research Group produced a discussion paper on the legal obligations governing the use of armed drones. You can read the press release and download the paper. Lesley Docksey of MAW has written an article on this and some of the other legal issues surrounding these …
Catch 16-22 Recruitment and retention of minors in the British armed forcesWe 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 the …
In recent years, the UK Government has published its first “National Security Strategy” (2008) and also this “Strategic Defence and Security Review” (2010) – the first since 1998. From the Strategic Defence and Security Review: “Today, Britain faces a different and more complex range of threats from a myriad of …
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 …
A publication from the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom. “Whilst military capacity is exposed every day to be a terminally ineffective method of assuring security given the nature of modern threats, militaries the world over consume ever-increasing amounts of the world’s human and economic resources. Despite this realization, …
At the end of June 2009 the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) published the final report of their Commission on National Security for the 21st Century – “Shared Responsibilities: a national security strategy for the UK”. It makes for some interesting reading. A copy of the full report can …
