Conscience the Peace Tax Campaign Inaugural Meeting for Scotland
On 8th October, Conscience: Taxes for Peace not War hosted a public meeting at the Quaker meeting house in Glasgow titled ‘The Future of...
Opposing War Memorial Get Committee Approval
Our proposal for a Memorial to Conscientious Objectors and all who oppose war has been enthusiastically approved by the Transport and Environment Committee of...
This Evil Thing – A Fundraiser for the Opposing War Memorial
ONE MAN AND HIS WHITE VAN – TOURING A PEACE PLAY FROM A to B (ABERDEEN TO BRIGHTON) Michael Mears is coming to Edinburgh...
Opposing War: Conscientious Objectors’ Memorial Design Launch
On 15 May the Opposing War Memorial design will be unveiled at a launch event following the fourth annual International Conscientious Objectors Day Vigil...
Peace & Justice Joins Call on Boris Johnson to Ban Nuclear Weapons
We’ve joined with 29 other civil society organisations in a letter to Boris Johnson calling on the UK to Sign the nuclear ban treaty....
Peace & Justice Calls on UK Not to Bomb Syria
The Peace & Justice Centre has written to the Prime Minister calling on her not to join the US in bombing Syria in retaliation...
US Military Retaliation for Chemical Attack Not the Answer
We join the many voices condemning the Assad regime for what is almost certainly use of chemical weapons against civilian targets resulting in the...
Trump – Kim Talks: A Surprising Opportunity for Disarmament
In light of North Korea’s accelerated nuclear weapons testing and Donald Trump’s rhetoric over the past year, from his threats to rain down “Fire...
Campaigners Call for Scottish financial institutions and Scottish Parliament to stop funding nuclear weapons
Press Release. 8 March 2018 Campaigners have renewed calls for Scottish financial institutions and the Scottish Parliament to stop funding nuclear weapons, after a...
ECND Public Meeting
Edinburgh cnd holds public meetings featuring a different topic with speakers, films and discussion, on the third Wednesday of most months at the Peace...
Conscientious Objectors Memorial Competition Now Open
CO Memorial Competition Now Open Deadline for Applications 15 December The Peace & Justice Centre and the Conscientious Objectors Memorial Committee are pleased to announce the...
P&J welcomes “ICAN Nobel Peace Prize” Motion by Bill Kidd MSP
Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre welcomes the Motion: “ICAN winners of Nobel Peace Prize” 2017 put down by Bill Kidd MSP and urges all...
P&J – an Affiliate of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – Welcomes Nobel Peace Prize
Fantastic News! The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – ICAN – of which the Peace & Justice Centre is an affiliate – has...
Threatening Use of Nuclear Weapons Is Not OK
As Peace & Justice News goes to press the war of words between two apparently unstable heads of government has, once again, been ratcheting...
Emergency appeal to help people rescued from Mosul
Edinburgh Direct Aid is making an emergency appeal to help people who have been rescued from Mosul. With the collapse of ISIS in the...