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We believe that a world is possible where relationships between communities and nations are based on justice and respect, rather than military might.

'You cannot foster harmony by the apparatus of discord, nor cherish goodwill by the equipment of hate.  But it is by harmony and goodwill that human security can be obtained.' (Quaker Faith and Practice 24.40)

Dozens of Quakers will be among campaigners planning to shut down the nuclear bomb factory at Aldermaston on Monday 15 February. They will be calling for disarmament of Trident and the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Oxford Quaker Sarah Lasenby, a member of Trident Ploughshares, said: “Weapons of mass destruction are designed and manufactured at Aldermaston. It is important to remind people this country is still producing and threatening to use these weapons. We want to see them abolished.”

27 July 2010

An atomic bomb survivor will be in London next week to mark the sixty fifth anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Shoso Kawamoto will be speaking during a series of memorial events, peace walks, vigils, an exhibition and storytelling.

The commemoration is organised by The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) working with the Quakers, and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, who are kindly providing the materials for the exhibition.

Defence Select Committee Inquiry into the future of Trident

The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is committed to the peaceful political resolution of intractable disputes within the international rule of law. We are opposed to the development, maintenance, or use of nuclear weapons as an instrument of international policy. While we welcome the existence of this inquiry we are disappointed that neither MOD Ministers nor their senior civil servants have given evidence on an issue where Government perceptions of strategic imperatives are so crucial to a decision.