Dear Reader,

In this issue you can find recent peace-related news and forthcoming events in and around Coventry.

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
Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace & Reconciliation
covlmpc@gmail.com

Peace News

Quotes from Queen Elizabeth II

We mark the passing of Britain's longest ruling monarch by remembering the following words of her Majesty relevant to peace and reconciliation: The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load. Everyone is our neighbour; no matter what race, creed, or …

Letter of greeting from Coventry's to Hiroshima's Mayor

14th September 2022 Mayor Kazumi Matsui Japan Dear Mayor Matsui, It is my pleasure to send you our City’s greetings as you honour us with the annual Hiroshima Coventry Day. I am so pleased that this year you are able to celebrate together after the restrictions caused by the pandemic in recent years, and I am sure the members of …

Help Judge Coventry’s International Young People’s Peace Essay Competition

The United Nations Association Coventry Branch invites academics and others to become a judge for Coventry’s International Young People’s Peace Essay Competition. UNA Coventry has run this competition since 2020 and it has attracted essays from young people around the world. There is more information at youngpeoplespeaceessay.org The competition is an exceptional opportunity for young people aged between 15 and …

How to take action on nuclear weapons

This message was originally published by the United Nations Association UK (UNA_UK). The UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) - now with 91 signatories and 68 state parties - shows the strength of the growing movement rejecting these weapons as well as the industry and financiers that supports it. But many banks and pension providers still invest …

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. The treaty was negotiated between 1965 and 1968 by the Eighteen Nation Committee …

Swiss delegate comments on failed NPT review

We previously reported on the failure of the Review of Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty to reach agreement. The Swiss ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Félix Baumann, spent the whole month of August in New York City. In the following article, published through a Creative Commons license via Geneva Solutions and the Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps, he …

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organisations in one hundred countries promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). ICAN works to promote adherence to and full implementation of TPNW. The campaign helped bring about this treaty. ICAN was launched in 2007 and counts …

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

On July 7 2017 a Conference convened by the UN General Assembly adopted a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The text of the treaty can be found here. The vote which decided the text of this Treaty was agreed to by 122 (list here) of the 193 members of the United Nations. The UK along with most other members …

Creative Kindness to make 10000 Stars for Coventry

Creative Kindness is a community group that seeks to tackle loneliness and isolation in Coventry. The group began in May 2019 when the ‘spark’ Chris Reid began to fulfil her vision to build community supported by Grapevine, a charity which helps all kinds of people experiencing isolation, poverty and disadvantage in Coventry and Warwickshire. In 2022 Creative Kindness runs six …

Forthcoming Peace-Related Events

If you know of other peace-related events please let us know.

Write to covlmpc@gmail.com

Coventry Peace Festival 2022

Coventry’s Peace Festival will run from 1 to 14 2022 November promoting the city’s ongoing work of peace, tolerance and friendship. The city is well known around the world as a welcoming place and the UK's only city of peace and reconciliation. There will be a number of events with the promotion of peace and tolerance at their heart. See …

Closing date for Coventry International Young People's Peace Essay Competition

Are you aged between 15 and 24? What do you see as the greatest threat to peace? Do you have ideas what people can and should do reduce that threat? Then Coventry’s International Young People’s Peace Essay Competition is your chance to tell the world what you think. Write an essay of 500 or 1000 words (depending on your age) …

Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture 2022

Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace and Reconciliation is pleased to announce that Roger Harrabin will deliver the Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture on 10 November. Roger was born in Coventry and attended Stivichall Primary School and King Henry VIII School. After studying English at Cambridge he returned to Coventry as a journalist at the Coventry Evening Telegraph. From there he …

Ruined and Rebuilt

This classic book is on sale now in hardback or paperback and would make an ideal and unique gift. On the night of 14 November 1940, Reverend Richard Howard, Provost of Coventry Cathedral, was one of four firefighters who climbed onto the roof to smother with sand the incendiary bombs that were landing not just on the Cathedral but starting …

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