09/10/2023 @ 17:00 – This year the Coventry Peace Festival will take place between 1st – 14th November. As Coventry is a city of Peace and Reconciliation, the Festival is an opportunity to showcase activity, events, exhibitions, educational work, talks, lectures, walks, etc, that highlight the notion of Peace and Reconciliation. Coventry City Council will collate those events that […]
Oppose Nuclear Threats in Europe and Pacific – Increase wages not weapons I welcome this timely meeting called by Stop the War. The Russian invasion and war on the people of Ukraine devastates their lives and country and threatens us …Continue reading →
This is the story of how and why Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation was formed and of its work over the past 40 years. Coventry is the UK’s only City of Peace and Reconciliation. The motivation for …Continue reading →
Coventry University is planning to create a landscaped garden which will include a Peace Garden in the place once occupied by the Alan Berry building. A new sculpture by Blitz survivor George Wagstaffe will take centre stage in the Peace …Continue reading →
09/11/2022 – 11/11/2022 @ All Day – RISING Global Peace Forum 2022 will run from 9 to 11 November in Coventry Cathedral. RISING is a unique three-way partnership between Coventry University (as represented by the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations), the Cathedral and the City Council. It builds on Coventry’s status as the UK’s only City of Peace and Reconciliation […]
The former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell and current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will be speaking about leadership at the sixth annual RISING Global Peace conference. The three-day event, led by Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, in …Continue reading →
01/11/2021 – 14/11/2021 @ All Day – Coventry Peace Festival is an annual celebration of the city’s place as the UK’s only city of Peace and Reconciliation. It will take place during the first two weeks of November. The programme is shown below. Click here to download a PDF of the programme. Coventry Peace Award Prizes Date: 1 November 2021 Location: Various […]
01/11/2019 – 14/11/2019 @ All Day – This year Coventry Peace Festival will run from 1 to 16 November. Events Ongoing events 1395 Days Without Red Positive Images Peace Festival Poetry Competition Coventry and Warwickshire Children’s Peace Poem 2020 Peace Festival events 1 – 14 November St John the Baptist Church Fleet St – Peace Festival 1 November HillzFM Radio Presents Peace […]
For many years, Coventry has been running a two week annual Peace Festival culminating on the anniversary of the bombing on 14 November 1940. This year, due to staff changes and a new City Events Manager Jon Hogan only recently …Continue reading →
12/01/2019 @ 12:00 – 14:15 – Warwick United Nations Association are delighted to have Heidi Meyer Master of Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick to come and address our Association on 12 January 2019. She will talk on the subject Can the UN Deliver and Build a Peaceful World? Heidi will base her answers on her personal experience of many years in […]