PEACE CONCERNS – CONFERRING TOGETHER
From Discourse to Public Witness
Dublin Peace Committee
20th October, 2007 at Churchtown Meeting House, 10.00am – 4.00pm
Dublin Peace Committee has held 3 seminars during the previous 10 months. These were Fear of the Other, Power and the Other and Religion and the Other. Reports on these are on our website dublinquakerpeace.org
These seminars raised many questions about peace-related concerns.
We were able to consider these matters and build our thinking from each other’s presence together.
During the last number of months, Friends have individually expressed their wish to move foreward from discussion of local and international concerns to public witness.
Through Conferring Together, we as a Peace Committee now seek to facilitate this expressed need.
Conferring Together is a day in which we ask Friends and everyone concerned with peace witness to share their concerns with others.
Conferring Together is a space in which to share concerns and move forward to witness.
Friends and others have expressed many concerns. They are all important. Witness is equally varied.
To help Peace Committee in its facilitation, we ask individuals and Meetings to tell us about concerns which move them.
We offer the time to speak briefly to your concern.
You may wish to prepare a poster.
You may simply wish to write your concern on a sheet of paper, which we will put up.
We ask you to contact us by 1st September.
The Dublin Peace Committee is a small group of individuals. We can provide facilitation to assist in moving peace witness forward. We need to know what your concerns are island-wide. We can then assist further actions. Friends island-wide have moved us to this day. It is now for Friends to build peace witness.