| @LisaCumin |
Sunshine to welcome those attending the annual gathering of Quakers in Britain (Yearly Meeting).
"All we can be sure of is that everything we do, say or think cannot help having an impact on the totality, the All of which we form a part."
Adam Curle, 1992
***Peacebuilding Coordinator Job***
Are you drawn to developing creative and responsive peacebuilding approaches to conflict at a community level?
Quakers in Britain is looking for a Peacebuilding Coordinator to develop and explore emerging opportunities for peacebuilding work in Britain.
Closing date: 18 July
Full info here:
https://www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/jobs/jobs
#Peacebuilding #ConflictTransformation #Interfaith #Ecumenical #Job #Jobs #Peace #Justice #UKJobs #Quakers #Community #Conflict
"We bear witness, too, to our failures
and our complicity in the fractures of our world"
Endless thanks to Corrymeela
for giving peacebuilding practitioners time to breathe.
https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/time-to-breathe
#Peacebuilding #Corrymeela #PeacePractice #ConflictTransformation
#CivilSociety #Dialogue #GoodRelations #Ballycastle
"UNHCR wishes to clarify that there is no mechanism through which refugees can approach UNHCR with the intention of seeking asylum in the U.K."
https://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/statement-asylum-processing-and-resettlement-unhcr
#Refugees #UK #UNHCR #RefugeesWelcome #HumanRights #Asylum #Sanctuary
UNHCR is aware of recent public statements suggesting that refugees wishing to apply for asylum in the United Kingdom should do so via the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ respective offices in their home region. UNHCR wishes to clarify that there is no mechanism through which refugees can approach UNHCR with the intention of seeking asylum in the U.K. There is no asylum visa or ‘queue’ for the United Kingdom.
Please take my love & solidarity along if you can get to London for this.
It's timed for when MPs will debate the new 'Refugee Ban Bill'.
(I know protests alone aren't anywhere enough but sometimes taking to the streets feels necessary.)
UNHCR's (the UN Refugee Agency) statement on the UK Asylum Bill.
https://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/press/2023/3/6407794e4/statement-on-uk-asylum-bill.html
#RefugeesWelcome #UNHCR #UN #UK #AsylumBill #HumanRights #Sanctuary
My son & friend are speaking to teachers today about a 6th form college assembly which they felt used #remembrance to glorify war (& seemingly Empire).
They're taking in poems like Siegfried Sassoon's 'Suicide in the Trenches' & Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum est' & some peace education resources.
My son particularly hopes to challenge the connection his college (located in a northern English town with high levels of deprivation) made between remembrance & army recruitment.
Had Guterres' highway to climate hell earworm quote from #Cop27 in my head this morning.
Glad of a walk but even the signs felt relevant.
For anyone in need of nurturing some active hope, there's some good resources here:
