Coventry Peace News Nov 2016

Welcome to the Coventry Peace Newsletter. My name is Vedat Ozgun and I am the new editor for this newsletter. You can read more about me below.

The next major peace activity in Coventry will be the Coventry Peace Festival. You can find all of the events by following the link below.

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Coventry Peace Festival 2016

The annual Coventry Peace Festival runs from 1 to 14 November. You can link directly to this page using CovPeaceFest.uk. We use the hashtag #CovPeaceFest in social media.

Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture 2016 by Michael Morpurgo

The Lord Mayor of Coventry, Councillor Lindsley Harvard, cordially invites you to welcome to our city Michael Morpurgo OBE FRSL FKC DL. Author of War Horse and many other much loved books and former Children’s Laureate. He will base his lecture on an Eagle in the Snow, his latest book featuring local serviceman, Private Henry Tandey VC, the most decorated …

RISING 16: The Ripple Effect

RISING 16, the second annual gathering of the RISING Global Peace Forum, will be held in Coventry from 15 to 16 November 2016. Global security is dominating the political agenda, public concerns are mounting, and nations are becoming more inward-looking. Against this background, RISING 16 brings together political, faith and community leaders; peacebuilders; diplomats; academics; the media; and members of …

Vedat Ozgun Introduction

Vedat Ozgun is an Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Peace, Trust and Social Relations. He graduated from the department of International Relations of Sakarya University, Turkey. He had worked at Middle East Institute of Sakarya as an assistant the years between 2014-2015. He had worked in Konda Research and Consultancy* as a volunteer survey researcher about elections. He was …

Coventry Schools Peace & Justice Forum

Coventry is the city of peace and reconciliation, but should these issues be addressed in school? And if so how? What has been achieved so far in Coventry and what problems did teachers face when addressing peace and justice? The Coventry Schools Peace & Justice Forum will explore these and related issues. The first meeting will be held in late 2016. …

Sent to Coventry: Refugees' stories of conflict and peace

Project Proposal 1.1 As a positive legacy of the Coventry Blitz, Coventry is proud to be known as the City of Peace and Reconciliation and of the welcome it offers to people from all over the world. Today, Coventry has more people than ever who, as refugees or migrants escaping from serious conflict in their own countries of origin, have …

Global Care

Global Care is a Coventry-based charity which sponsors vulnerable children and partners with grassroots projects in desperate communities in various countries including Sri Lanka, Uganda, Lebanon, Romania and lately Syria. They do work “on the ground” and employ local people as their contacts. They liaise with other agencies including “Out of the Wilderness” in the Lebanon; The Dutch have “Help …

West Midlands Pension Fund Cluster Bomb Investments

For four years, the Coventry Justice and Peace Group (CJPG) have been campaigning to persuade the West Midlands Pension Fund (WMPF) to disinvest from the Arms Trade. Their investments are made from Council Tax money, collected across the West Midlands region. For the last two years we have homed in on investments made in firms known to be involved in the …

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