Dublin Quaker Peace

DISARMAMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: ONE COIN, TWO SIDES?
A BRIEFING FOR FRIENDS
A short report from from the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva.
We are pleased to present you with this short report outlining how our engagement with issues of small arms demand has led to recent work on the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and […]

The Peace Committee has been in contact with Peter Dyson, who works with Moscow and St. Petersburg Friends Meetings. People in Georgia have expressed the wish to formalise their Meeting for Worship and this has happened. There is now a Friends’ Meeting in the Georgian Republic. Georgia is in a very confused state nationally and […]

November 2007
During the previous twelve months, Dublin Peace Committee has been building a programme of seminars. The first three of these focused upon the question of the Other and how this idea affects and infects our ways of thinking about people different from us.
These seminars evolved to address particular peace-related concerns and also to […]

Dublin Peace Committee
Churchtown Meeting House, Dublin
20th October, 2007, 10.00am-4.00pm.
Thirty-six Friends, including one from Cambridge, five from N Ireland and others from outside Dublin region, including Ballitore and Limerick, were present.

You can read the full report here (PDF).

PEACE CONCERNS
CONFERRING TOGETHER
From Discourse to Public Witness
Dublin Peace Committee
20th October, 2007 at
Churchtown Meeting House
10.00-4.00pm
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 […]

11th to 19th August 2007: The next triennial gathering of Friends from all round the world will take place in Ireland in 2007. Although this is not strictly a “public” event, the fact that Ireland has been chosen as the venue is exciting for Irish Friends and will be of interest to many others. There […]

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 […]

A report on all three seminars held this year by the peace committee is available on the quakers-in-ireland.ie website:

FEAR OF THE OTHER - 18th November 2006, Churchtown Meeting House, Dublin
POWER AND THE OTHER - 24th February 2007, Irish School of Ecumenics, Belfast.
Religion and the Other - A Quaker Day of Reflection, 26 May 2007

Religion and the Other

Dublin Peace Committee Third Seminar
A Day of Reflection,
Led by
John D’Arcy May, Irish School of Ecumenics
at
Quaker House, Stocking Lane, Dublin
26 May 2007
10.00am-4.00pm
All Welcome!
We intensify the Problem of relating to the Other
when
the Other to be acknowledged
the Stranger to be welcomed
the Enemy to be reconciled
are religiously different from us.
Why is this? What gives religion its […]

A conference will be held in Trinity College, Dublin 3-5 July 2007, to mark the 200th
anniversary of the abolition in the British Empire of the trade in
people, by focusing on slavery in Europe today.
For further information, please contact:
www.europeanslavery.com info@europeanslavery.com