2023 Bristol Quaker Peace Lecture: Calling for Prison Abolition – towards social justice and safer communities?
In his 2023 Bristol Quaker Peace Lecture, Mike Nellis argued that ostensibly progressive penal reforms in England and Wales over the past 40 years have failed to achieve their hoped for goals, and an ever more punitive penal system continues both to expand and deteriorate. He raised the questions: Is it not immoral and unjust […]
Bristol Annual Peace Lecture 2022: Building Peace through Creative Resistance from the Margins
The ninth Bristol Annual Peace Lecture was given by Ros Martin on 5 March 2022. Ros attends Frenchay Meeting. Rather than offering a formal lecture, she presented her ‘blended’ audience with a moving performance of her poetry, accompanied by visual images and a beautiful soundscape from local Cameroonian musician Alphonse Daudet. Ros’s reflective commentary linked […]
Bristol Annual Peace Lecture 2021: Can War be Abolished?
The Bristol Quaker Peace Lecture 2021: Can war be abolished? Britain’s role in working for world peace, took place online in spring this year with Fabian Hamilton, Labour MP and Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament and Paul Ingram, Quaker and ex director of the British American Security Information council (BASIC) discussing four topics: Nuclear […]
Bristol Annual Peace Lecture 2019: Science for a Secure & Sustainable Future
The lecture was given by Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility It took place in March 2019 as one in a series of annual Peace Lectures organised by Bristol Quakers. Lecture topics have covered a variety of aspects of Peace with this being the first to provide a science focus. Science and […]