Scottish Manifesto for Peace
We’ve joined partners, Scottish CND, CAAT Scotland and others and co-signed the Scottish Manifesto for Peace. With the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections in May, we...
Britain Can be a global leader but not this way
Last week the government published The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy. “Global Britain in a competitive age”. The very title...
Peace & Justice welcomes Inverclyde Council resolution calling the Strathclyde Pension Fund divest from arms
Peace & Justice (Scotland) welcomes the recent decision made by councillors on Inverclyde Council to pass a resolution urging the Strathclyde Pension Fund (SPF)...
Budget should cut military spending to address climate crisis and human needs
By Brian Larkin Today Rishi Sunak released details of the Budget at Westminster. It included an increase in military spending from £42bn in 2020-21...
Signs of Hope in Biden’s Oval Decor: Exit Jackson and Churchill; Enter Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez
By Brian Larkin On the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration, something truly extraordinary caught my attention. It was not the tiny American flags on...
P&J Calls on UK to End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
We welcome President Joe Biden’s decision to end offensive arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We note however that...
It’s 100 Seconds to midnight. Time to pull back from the brink
With Donald Trump no longer having the authority to launch US nuclear weapons and the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition...
P&J Peace Cranes Exhibition to highlight Nuclear Weapons Ban
In 2015, Peace & Justice (Scotland) member Atsuko Betchaku (1960-2016) – a historian and pacifist – embarked on an international collaborative project of folding...
JOIN the Twitterstorm Friday 22 Jan celebrating the Nuclear Ban Treaty!
This Friday (22nd Jan) campaigners across the globe will be celebrating the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entering into force, making...
Support the Ban Treaty 22 Jan:Call on UK to sign up; lobby your MP; Ring bells!
On the 22nd of January the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will enter into force, making nuclear weapons illegal under a UN...
Leave a gift in your will
Each of us leaves our mark on the world – through our relationships with other people and through our beliefs and ideas. Leaving a...
PeaceBuilders Videos: A Creative Response to supporting schools during COVID
By Fiona Oliver-Larkin, Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre’s PeaceBuilders Programme Coordinator As the coordinator of a team of people who usually work in-person in...
SupportAhmed Al-Babati: Conscientious Objector to UK / Saudi War on Yemen
We salute Lance Corporal Ahmed Al-Babati who was arrested by Military Police outside Downing Street on Monday after taking part in a protest against...
75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Peace Cranes Events Review
The Mistake, The Priest’s Tale, The Doctor’s Tale Review by Annie Mae Milburn This month marks 75 years since the US dropped two atomic bombs on...
Peace & Justice Centre Joins XR Peace coalition
The Peace & Justice Centre has joined Extinction Rebellion Peace, a coalition of peace groups that is taking part in the nonviolent global rebellion...