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Building a lasting peace: 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement
Most people over the age of about 35 with a connection to Northern Ireland will remember the Good Friday Agreement being signed. I do. I grew up just outside Belfast and at Easter 1998 when the Agreement was formalised I was 12 years old, on a canal boat somewhere in England. I wasn't blessed with keen political insight, but even I dimly grasped that what I was hearing on the radio was important.
Building a lasting peace: 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement
Phasing out fossil fuels: the political dynamics of COP28
Tens of thousands of people are flying in and out of the mega desert city Dubai to attend the 28th Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change. The setting is poignant; a once deeply poor, colonised land, now an oil rich country capable of quickly building a surreally unsustainable city.
Phasing out fossil fuels: the political dynamics of COP28
Reflecting on COP28 – where next for climate justice?
Another set of annual UN climate talks has come to a close and many are sitting with mixed feelings. COP28 brought some unexpected welcome developments but it also saw a worrying increase in the potential for capture by the fossil fuel industry.
Reflecting on COP28 – where next for climate justice?
The contradictions at the heart of COP28
In the final plenary of the 28th Conference of Parties, after COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber gavelled the decision text for the first Global Stocktake of climate action, Diego Pacheco, representing Bolivia, succinctly stated the contradictory stances of developed countries.
The contradictions at the heart of COP28
Refusing to kill: conscription and conscience
On 24 January, the head of the British army, General Sir Patrick Sanders stated that the country should train a "citizen army" ready to fight a land war in the future. Prompted by the threat from Russia and similar steps being taken by other European nations, he warned that an increase in reserves forces alone would "not be enough", and a future conflict would have to be a "whole-of-nation-undertaking".
Refusing to kill: conscription and conscience
Charting a path post-election
On 4 July, the Labour party won the election with 410 MPs and an effective working majority of 181. It won a popular mandate based on "change", and "a government of national service", after nearly a decade and a half of Conservative rule in one form or another. Where and, perhaps more importantly, how, do Quakers fit into this era of "change"?
Charting a path post-election
Lloyd's of London: underwriting exploitation?
When I ran workshops as part of the Exploring Faith and Climate Justice course in 2023, we talked about how the roots of our present-day climate issues could be traced back to historic practices of exploitation and extraction. I didn't expect that I would soon find such a clear example in my own campaigning work.
Lloyd's of London: underwriting exploitation?
COP29 – could it be a COP of peace?
At COP29, world leaders are due to set a new global climate finance target. The last time a goal like this was set – in 2009 – 'developed nations' agreed to provide $100 billion annually by 2020 to help 'developing countries' reduce emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. After much foot dragging and empty talk, the goal was eventually met in 2022.
COP29 – could it be a COP of peace?
A path to a better future: David Gray writes from Brummana High School in Lebanon
Lebanon is in a dilapidated state today, as indeed it has been for several years. It has suffered from a series of catastrophes: the overthrow of its government in 2019, the Beirut explosion of 2020, and the overwhelming economic collapse of 2019. This continues until today with rates of inflation still running at 190% and capital controls in the banks which have seen many people lose their entire life savings and, if they had them, their occupational pensions reduced to 5% of their actual value. For us in Lebanon the pandemic and subsequent lockdown were just another event but perhaps had less impact and preserved the peace in a way which would not be understood in the West.
A path to a better future: David Gray writes from Brummana High School in Lebanon
Finance and false solutions at COP29
The atmosphere during the recent climate change Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, at times felt ominous. Trust between countries, always fragile, received hard blows.
Finance and false solutions at COP29