How Ten Women Disarmed a War Plane: Book Talk Tonight at the P&J Centre
Tonight at the Peace and Justice Centre: Author Activist Andrea Needham tells the gripping inside account of how ten women disarmed a Hawk jet...
Peace Poppies
Peace poppies ‘You should be ashamed of yourself wearing that. It’s disrespectful’. Aggressive language in church always throws me. So I found myself unable...
Where to find White Poppies in Edinburgh
White Poppies are worn in the run-up to Remembrance Day every year by thousands of people in the UK and beyond. We wear White...
Peace & Justice Centre Demands France Protect Calais Children
On 28 October the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre called on the French Consul in Edinburgh with a letter to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve...
P&J Centre Message to UK & France: Protect Unaccompanied Children
On Tuesday 18 October we held a vigil calling for the UK to fulfil its pledge to welcome thousands of unaccompanied refugee children to...
Welcoming Refugees and Children P&J Centre Event Packed Out
The Peace and Justice Centre’ panel discussion on Welcoming Refugees held at University of Edinburgh on 8 October had to be moved...
Write Theresa May, Amber Rudd, Your MP, and MSPs Today: SAVE the Calais Children Before Its Too Late.
The Peace and Justice Centre is calling on the government to take in all those children remaining in the Calais refugee camp who have...
UK Should Admit Unaccompanied Children from Calais
The French government has announced its intention to bulldoze the the precarious homes of the most marginalised people on our planet, living as they...
July 30: World Day against Trafficking in Persons
In May 2016, the Guardian ran a story about a hotel in the Scottish Highlands, where the Bangladeshi owner scammed other Bangladeshis into coming...
TRIDENT NO MORE Demonstrations Set for 30 Locations Across Scotland Saturday
With the UK Parliament set to vote Monday 18 July on renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system Demonstrations are being organised by the Scrap...
Non-combatants: More than just numbers
Kristee Boyd argues that targetted assasinations often kill innocents and only generate more terrorism. If you fight terror with terror, how can you tell...
Considering the right to Freedom from Torture
Marking UN International Day in support of Victims of Torture P&J blogger Kristee Boyd considers the uncomfortable question torture and how we might be...
Intimate Violence and Public Terrorism: Not so disconnected
By now, most people have seen the interview with Sitora Yusufiy, wherein she testifies about the severe abuse she experienced during her marriage to...
Policy paper Addresssing the Needs of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in Scotland
This briefing paper arises out the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre’s concern for the consequences of conflicts around the world, notably in Syria, which...
Dan Berrigan – Peacemaker – Dies, age 94
The great “radical priest” Daniel Berrigan has died. With his brother Philip and a group of Catholic pacifists known as the Catonsville Nine he...