Blog
A place for insight, analysis and action.
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16 January 2025
From grief to hope: the enduring power of nonviolent resistance to Assad
by Ellis Brooks
Ellis Brooks reflects on the history of nonviolent civil resistance in Syria and asks what we can all learn about standing up to injustice.
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11 December 2024
A clarion call for climate justice
by Quaker United Nations Office
Johan Cavert, Programme Assistant for the Human Impacts of Climate Change at the Quaker United Nations Office, reflects on his first experience of United Nations climate change talks.
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11 December 2024
Finance and false solutions at COP29
by Quaker United Nations Office
Lindsey Fielder Cook, Interim Deputy Director and Representative for the Human Impacts of Climate Change at the Quaker United Nations Office, reports back from COP29.
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4 December 2024
9 solidarity actions you can take right now for Palestine and Israel
by Stephanie Hunt
Stephanie Hunt shares nine ways to keep on speaking up and acting for peace.
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21 November 2024
The long-term cost of war: how sending landmines to Ukraine undermines the fight for a mine-free future
by Oliver Robertson
Oliver Robertson highlights the ongoing cost of landmines.
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11 November 2024
A path to a better future: David Gray writes from Brummana High School in Lebanon
by David Gray
"Our students go to sleep to the sound of explosions and wake to the constant and nerve-wracking buzzing of drones in the morning sky, but nothing will stop them getting to school."
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5 November 2024
COP29 – could it be a COP of peace?
by Rebecca WalkerWoo and Charlotte Cooper
The next UN climate change talks – COP29 – will begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 11 November 2024. Charlotte Cooper and Rebecca WalkerWoo take a look at what to expect and share an invitation to witness.
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4 September 2024
Sharing our lives and living in the Spirit: reflections from the Quaker World Plenary
by Adrian Glamorgan
Adrian Glamorgan, Executive Secretary for Asia West Pacific Section of Friends World Committee for Consultation, reports back from the Quaker World Plenary.
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7 August 2024
Dispatches from the Quaker World Plenary
by Marghuerita Remi-Judah
Marghuerita Remi-Judah describes life at the Quaker World Plenary being held in South Africa and online from 5-12 August.
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21 February 2024
Informed prayer, prayerful action: a call from Palestinian Christians
by Judy Mason
'Informed prayer, prayerful action' describes the World Day of Prayer (WDP) movement. The reading for this year's service on Friday 1 March is from Ephesians 4:2, "I beg you… bear with one another in love." Judy Mason explores the theme behind this year's World Day of Prayer.
