Category Archives: Lord Mayors Committee
Marc Gwamaka Coventry Peace Lecturer 2023
On 10 November 2023 Marc Gwamaka delivered Coventry Lord Mayor’s Peace Lecture. Here he talks about his experience in Coventry. For more about the lecture see Lessons from Genocide – Rwanda twenty-nine years on.
Continue reading →Statement by Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee on the Middle East Conflict 2023
Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation is appalled by the violence against innocent civilians shown by both Israel and Hamas in their current war. On 7 October, Hamas infiltrated Israel, killing over a thousand Israeli civilians and taking … Continue reading →
Opportunity for Volunteer to Gain Valuable Experience
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Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee Annual Report 2022
The Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation has worked for 42 years to promote peace and reconciliation with the City of Coventry, particularly through acts of witness that people of Coventry can be involved in. Coventry City Council … Continue reading →
Young People Rethinking Security and Peace – Conference Report
On 9 November 2022, Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation in partnership with Coventry Prevent Team, Coventry Cathedral and the RISING Global Peace Forum offered schools in Coventry the opportunity to attend a 6th Form Conference on the … Continue reading →
Lord Mayor’s Committee seeks assistant treasurer
Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation are looking for an Assistant to help the Treasurer produce a report every 2 months on the financial status of the Committee. Full training will be given by the existing Assistant Treasurer who … Continue reading →
Coventry Peace Lecture 2022 Video
During the RISING Global Peace Forum in November 2022, former BBC energy and environment analyst Roger Harrabin delivered Coventry Peace Lecture in Coventry Cathedral on the subject “Can technology curb climate change?” The event was organised by Coventry Lord Mayor’s … Continue reading →
History of Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation
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 →
Surviving Hiroshima – video presentation
Ms Keiko Ogura explains how she survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and what has happened since. The video was shown to children in Coventry Cathedral in November 2021 during a conference entitled “How to be a peaceful … Continue reading →