Dublin Quaker Peace Committee

International Peace Studies Public Lecture “War Crimes in Sri Lanka:International Implications” Denis Halliday & Mary Lawlor Thursday, October 77 PMJ. M. Synge Theatre Arts Building Trinity College Dublin Denis Halliday is former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. Mary Lawlor is Director of Front Line, The International Foundation for theProtection of Human Rights Defenders. Denis [...]

As Haiti rebuilds from this disaster, please work to secure the immediate cancellation of Haiti’s $1 billion debt and ensure that any emergency earthquake assistance is provided in the form of grants, not debt-incurring loans. Haiti needs a sustained international effort as it seeks to recover from this earthquake. The current outpouring of support is [...]

IRISH FORUM FOR PEACE IN SRI LANKA J.M. Synge Theatre, Trinity College Dublin Saturday 16th January @ 2.00pm The Permanent People’s Tribunal (successor to the Bertrand Russell Tribunal) will be conducting a People’s Tribunal on the war in Sri Lanka and its aftermath in Dublin on the 14th, 15th & 16th of January 2010. On [...]

We received a recent request from Neil Endicott, Policy Officer (Sustainable Energy Security) at the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA). He brought our attention to the publication of the QCEA Sustainable Energy Security programme’s first report – ‘The Nabucco Gas Pipeline: A chance for the EU to push for change in Turkmenistan’. You can [...]

Enclosed below is a document (PDF format) released by the Palestinian National Authority as it’s Program of the Thirteenth Government on August 2009: This document presents the program of the 13th government of the Palestinian National Authority. The program, which sets out our national goals and government policies, centers around the objective of building strong [...]

Limerick Meeting is holding a series of talks entitled Quakers in Limerick. The next one is entitled Peace Testimony and Response to Conflict. Speakers are Helen Haughton AVP and a speaker from Quaker House Belfast. The venue is Quaker Meeting House, Southville Gardens, Ballinacurra, Limerick On Tuesday 6th October Starts at 7.30pm.

Greetings from Georgia, We continue the relief work for refugees. But only medical relief programme for now. It was expected that the refugees from South Ossetia will be accommodated in the new build homes or will get financial compensation by the end of September, but approximately 3500 families still live in shelters. Only 400 families [...]

A message recieved by the Dublin Quaker Peace Commitee from Wi’am – the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Centre: Greetings from Wi’am Centre. “Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display – so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn’t the holly, it isn’t the snow. It isn’t the [...]

The launch of the paper publication of Neutrality: Irish Experience, European Experience, will be held at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Bea House, Milltown Park, Dublin 6, at 6.00pm, on Monday 7th September 2009. This publication consists of papers presented at the conference “Neutrality: Irish Experience, European Experience” organised by the Irish School of Ecumenics [...]

The Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee has published Neutrality Irish Experience European Experience, a selection of papers presented at the Open Information Meeting on Irish neutrality in a European context which was held in Dublin on 8th May 2009, and organised jointly with the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. This publication is available [...]