Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre

Opening of Middle East Festival of Spirituality and Peace Byzantium - Splendour Perfected. Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St. 18.00-20.00

Please join us for an Enlightenment Lecture: Population - Can we begin to talk sensibly? By Professor Aubrey Manning, zoologist, writer, broadcaster and Emeritus Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh
Appleton Tower (Lecture Theatre 4)
11 Crichton Street
EH8 9LE Edinburgh

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT)

Room 3.15, St Leonard's Land (Edinburgh University), Holyrood Road, Edinburgh organised by Scotland's for Peace. (WILPF is a partner in this broad coalition).

The seminar promises to be stimulating and informative as well as being a 'first step' in developing a strategy to ensure that the right questions are asked and the right issues are highlighted in the upcoming referendum debate. Full details are in the attachment

Details are as on Saturday's event. Course runs over two days

www.abolishwar.org.uk

Friday 13 and Saturday 14 May 2011 at the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road London SE1

Programme - Friday
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.30 Welcome by Diane Lees Director-General, Imperial War Museum and introduction by Martin Bell, Vice-President, Movement for the Abolition of War
10.30 – 11.30 Talk and discussion: Terry Charman Imperial War Museum Crying Havoc: Beverley Nichols and Pacifism in Britain during the 1930s
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee/tea break

Venue: Renfield St Stephen Church Centre, Bath Street, Glasgow

2011 is the year of election to the Scottish Parliament.

This gives Scottish Friends of Palestine, its members and supporters, all who support the rights of the Palestinian people, the opportunity to impress upon those who would form the next Scottish government that the Israeli state must be boycotted.

Creating Communities of Peace

If you are between 18 and 30 years old and want to explore how to create different styles of peace community, this conference is for you

. Co-facilitated by activist facilitators Seeds for Change
. Learn about different of peace community and nonviolent organizing for peace and social change
. Hear about the Sierra Leone peace talks from a key coordinator, FoR Director Miollius Palayiwa
. Spenmd time in spiritual reflection and relax in beautiful countryside

The First UN Review Conference of the Rome Statute (1998) for an International Criminal Court (“ICC”), was held in Kampala, Uganda, this past June. A resolution amending that treaty, and setting out for the first time in international criminal law an internationally agreed definition for the “crime of aggression”, was adopted by unanimous consensus, including therefore that of the delegation of the UK, a full state party since 2001.

A Fresh Start? The new Government’s agenda for reforming the asylum system in the UK.

We are delighted to be joined by political broadcaster Glenn Campbell who will chair the morning and afternoon sessions.

Seminar Cherry Leonardi (Department of History, University of Durham);
Southern Sudan Chiefs as Brokers and Translators
Seminar room 2, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15a George Square

http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/events/seminar_series