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...
Hearing First Hand From A Hiroshima Survivor
“They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken...
The Dunblane Lesson: Scotland’s Response to a School Mass Shooting
There have already been nine shootings that resulted in injury or death at US schools in 2018, and the year has just begun. The...
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...
Ethiopia, they are killing my people. International Youth Peace Conference
I am Shire Temesgen Beriso, I am from Ethiopia, Oromia region. I am studying Sociology at the Haramaya University. I need to publish this...
International Youth Peace Conference 2017
My name is Léa Oval, I just graduaded from a master Environment, Communication and Culture at the University of Glasgow. I am currently attending...
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...
‘Bubble of Hope’: Afghan Peace Speaking Tour Comes to Scotland 4th-13th July
In a nutshell, things are worse than bad in Afghanistan – unsurprisingly the 14 year war led by the US & NATO didn’t...
Addressing the root causes of terrorism
Following the Manchester bombing there was a massive outpouring of expressions of solidarity with the UK. People changed their Facebook profiles to demonstrate their...
Scotland against racism and fascism.
Saturday 11 March, ‘Clacks Cares – Nae Nazis’ Oppose the Nazi SDL, Assemble 1-1.30pm, High Street, Alloa Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1120536814724145/ The racists and fascists of...
Trump’s Tenuous Relationship with the Truth
Probably everyone in the world knows that more people attended the Women’s March on Washington against Donald Trump than attended his inauguration. It was...
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...
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...
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...