http://dublinquakerpeace.org Home of the Dublin Quaker Peace Committee Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:40:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2008/06/23/disarmament-and-development-one-coin-two-sides/ 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 ... http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/11/26/news-from-the-friends-meeting-in-the-georgian-republic/ 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 ... http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/11/26/dublin-peace-committee-report-to-dublin-monthly-meeting/ 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). http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/11/26/gathering-together-from-dialogue-to-public-witness/ 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 ... http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/10/10/peace-concerns-peace-concerns-conferring-together/ 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 ... http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/08/21/triennial-gathering-of-friends-from-all-round-the-world/ 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 ... http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/08/21/peace-concerns-conferring-together/ 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 ... http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/08/21/a-series-of-three-peace-seminars-reports/ 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 ... http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/05/18/religion-and-the-other-dublin-peace-committee-third-seminar/ 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 http://dublinquakerpeace.org/2007/05/18/confererence-on-slavery/