Editorial

In this issue our theme is Peace. We asked for articles on this theme, and have received such a wealth of good articles that we have decided the theme deserves two issues! It is encouraging to find that the quest for Peace is still a driving force in the Society of...

The Quaker Peace Testimony

Jan de Voogd and David Hanson-Levering, New South Wales Regional Meeting To the extent that the general public knows anything at all about the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), that knowledge probably relates to the Society’s opposition to war. Along with...

Do you do this with MURDERERS?!

Sally Herzfeld, Western Australia Regional Meeting   At the end of a Help Increase the Peace Project (HIPP) workshop with a year 4 class in a primary school, I explained that the Alternatives to Violence Project runs programs all around the world in schools,...

Between EASTER and ANZAC

Jo Vallentine, West Australian Regional Meeting It was a wonderful week in Canberra at the recent  Peace Convergence, which was so much more than the inaugural meeting of the Independent Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN).  It began with a shared stall at the National...

Another look at “Beyond War and Radioactive Peace”

 Elizabeth PO’, Western Australia Regional Meeting   Adrian Glamorgan and Elizabeth PO’ produce a weekly radio program on the environment in Perth, Western Australia, and every week add a little more to the public knowledge of what is happening behind the scenes...