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...
Conscientious Objectors Day Vigil Held on Princes St
About 40 people attended the Conscientious Objectors Day at on Princes St in Edinburgh on the 15th of May 2019 where we were seen...
Vigil to Mark Centenary of Release from Prison of Conscientious Objectors Today at Wellington Statue
Fifth Annual Conscientious Objectors Day Vigil Wednesday, 15 May. 5 – 6pm outside West Register House, East End of Princes St. Descendants of prominent...
Save the INF; Support Other Measures to Lower the Risk of Use of Nuclear Weapons & Ban Them
Peace & Justice is supporting a protest tomorrow in Edinburgh at the Russian Consulate on Melville St (9am) and US Consulate on Regent Terrace (10:15am)...
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...