Dear Reader,
Our first Japanese Day in Coventry Cathedral on 6 August was a great success and the Hiroshima Day Commemoration that followed was moving and thought-provoking.
In September we will be working with the United Nations Association Coventry Branch to launch a Human Rights in Action programme in September led by a student from the University of Warwick.
In October and November we will run Coventry & Warwickshire Children's Peace Poem Competition and in November we will be running the first Coventry Young People’s Peace and Reconciliation Conference with a focus on how to end the current epidemic of violence and knife-crime. Schools have shown intense interest in this and it is already fully booked but you can still reserve a place on the waiting list.
We are delighted to be able to announce that this Conference has now been generously funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
In November also we will be re-publishing the book "Ruined and Rebuilt" in which Provost Howard describes how he tried to save the cathedral, decided it would have to be rebuilt and led the team which achieved this mighty effort.
More information about all this below, plus many other peace and reconciliation related events in Coventry and the wider world.
Please do let us know of any peace-related news or activities happening in or near Coventry and we will be happy to add them to our website http://coventrycityofpeace.uk and include them in a future edition of this newsletter.
Philip Brown
Chair, Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace & Reconciliation
covlmpc@gmail.com
