Professor Yasmin Alibhai-Brown delivered the 2018 Coventry Lord Mayor’s Peace Lecture on 13 November 2018 in the beautiful St Mary’s Guildhall on the subject “Keeping Faith in Just Values in an Age of Populism”. The event was introduced by Councillor … Continue reading →
Rodney Kenny writes: I am looking for inspirational, enthusiastic, motivated and passionate young people (18 to 25) who can form a National Youth Counter Terrorism Advisory Group (YTAG), to advise National Counter Terrorism Police Headquarters (CTPHQ) about strategy, policy and operational delivery … Continue reading →
What happens when people are forced to abandon their land, homes, jobs and schools due to a civil war? Conflict, hunger and disease forced nearly 700,000 people to flee South Sudan to become refugees in neighbouring countries in 2017. More … Continue reading →
During the Coventry Peace Festival leading up to the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the fighting of the Second World War, Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation invited children aged 16 or younger who live or … Continue reading →
On 14 November, Coventry Restorative Justice Forum held a Conference in Coventry Council House on the subject of RJ. Those who were delivering RJ to citizens of the city were able to describe their work, followed by a Question and Answer … Continue reading →
At a meeting of the West Midlands Strategic Policing and Crime Board on 18 September, Philip Brown asked the following questions on behalf of the Coventry Restorative Justice Forum. A video of the questions and answers can be found here. A webcast … Continue reading →
Thanks to the efforts of local people and their representatives, the West Midlands Pension Fund (WMPF) has taken the unprecedented step of ending all investments in one aspect of the arms trade. Unfortunately we are still concerned about the presence … Continue reading →
Hiroshima Day 2018 / Google Photos Follow the link above for more photographs from Hiroshima Day Memorial Event 2018
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Continue reading →On 6 June the Lord Mayor of Coventry John Blundell officially opened the Community Peace Orchard in the presence of Normandy Day veteran Dennis Davison (who suggested the idea of the orchard) and children from local schools after a community picnic … Continue reading →