On 2 July Conscience was delighted to welcome Symon Hill, Campaigns and Communications Manager at the Peace Pledge Union, as our guest speaker at our first webinar, ‘Voices of Conscientious Objection’. Many of you will know, the Peace Pledge Union is a pacifist network promoting active nonviolence and challenging militarism. Learning more about the early […]
Category: Conscientious Objection – First World War
Voices of Conscientious Objection
We are excited to let you know about a new project Conscience is developing. It is called Voices of Conscientious Objection. We are very grateful for the grant we have received from Funding for Social Change Ltd for this work. We applied for funds to organise five public meetings across the country to share the […]
Commemoration, Conflict & Conscience
My first day working for Conscience: Taxes For Peace Not War was fascinating. I joined colleagues from Conscience at a national festival on conscientious objection, ‘Commemoration, Conflict & Conscience’, held in Bristol. The festival was based on a project led by Professor Lois Bibbings from the University of Bristol. The project marked ‘the 100-year anniversary […]
Learning about the work of the First World War Peace Forum
One of the first events I was invited to attend as the Campaign Worker for Conscience: Taxes For Peace Not War was a meeting of the First World War Peace Forum. The Forum was a coalition ‘formed following a Peace Pledge Union initiative in February 2012 with the objective of presenting the story of resistance […]