Philip Brown was Chair of Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace and Reconciliation from 2018 to 2020
The Peace Orchard Website contains a number of peace education resources including: The Peace Calendar suggests one event for each month of the year that can form the focus of students’ peace activity – for example, the birth of Martin … Continue reading →
Peace One Day’s objective is to institutionalise International Peace Day 21 September, making it a day that is self-sustaining, an annual day of global unity, a day of intercultural cooperation on an unprecedented scale. Throughout the years, millions of people … Continue reading →
Stand by Me UK is a project run by Nottingham based group Communities Inc that empowers people to assist victims of bullying, harassment or hate through safe bystander interventions. They aim to train people in England, Scotland, and Wales how to … Continue reading →
Most of the following videos have a short advertisement at the beginning. Keeping the stories of Hiroshima alive 75 years after bombing by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 6 Aug 2020, 4m:27s Seventy-five years after the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, … Continue reading →
On 5 August the Elders [1] called on the leaders of the five recognised nuclear-weapon states to use the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a moment to reflect on the lives lost and begin substantive steps towards the … Continue reading →
On 6 August 2020 the Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom, Yasumasa Nagamine, honoured Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation by bestowing his Commendation. The Commendation was given on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Japan … Continue reading →
The annual Hiroshima Commemoration organised by Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation was special in 2020 for several reasons, not least of which was that the normally large audience was restricted because of social distancing measures. However the … Continue reading →
Today, 6 August 2020, is the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first nuclear bomb which devastated the lives of hundreds of thousands. Ethical, legal and military controversies still surround this and the bombing of Nagasaki three days later. … Continue reading →
The Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Director of the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Rob Brooks, published an insightful article on the origins of racism on The Conversation in July 2012. He finds … Continue reading →
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust are running a survey to find the views of people of ethnic minority backgrounds on what mental health means to them, what their perception/experience is of mental health services, and what barriers there might … Continue reading →