Dear all,
On 7 and 8 June, academics from Newcastle University and Northumbria University are jointly hosting the ‘Two Centuries of Peacemaking’ conference. The event marks two anniversaries: the bicentenary of the foundation of the Peace Society (the first major peace organisation in Britain) and the centenary of Britain’s enactment of conscription during World War One (raising the issue of conscription during wartime). Furthermore, the conference forms part of various activities in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s visit to Newcastle.
Please find attached a draft version of the conference programme. As you’ll see, there’ll be a diverse and stimulating set of talks, featuring twenty-eight panellists as well as four keynote speakers: Martin Ceadel (Professor Emeritus in Politics, University of Oxford) on the Peace Society; Kate Hudson (General Secretary, CND) on peace activism in twentieth-century Britain; Thomas F. Jackson (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina) on Martin Luther King and non-violence; David Cortright (Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies) on ideas of peace.
Kate Hudson’s lecture will be open to non-delegates; it is preceded by a ‘peace fair’ at which local initiatives working on peace and conflict resolution will run small information stalls. It’ll be an exciting opportunity for a dialogue involving academics and practitioners, and there’ll even be a bit of music!
Bursaries are available for activists and post-graduate students. Please visit the conferece3 website and contact the organising committee to request one.
For further information, feel free to visit the blog of Northumbria University’s ‘Histories of Activism’ research group (http://historiesofactivism.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/two-centuries-of-peacemaking-conference.html) or the web pages of Newcastle University (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/about/events/item/two-centuries-of-peacemaking).
There are two ways of registering for the conference:
• Full conference participation: http://webstore.ncl.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=52&prodid=465
• If you’re only intending to come to Kate Hudson’ s lecture and the peace fair, you can sign up for it via http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=9806.
Peace - Nick Megoran
Political geography lecturer and chaplain, Newcastle University; co-convenor of the Northumbria and Newcastle Universities Martin Luther King Peace Committee.
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Dr Nick Megoran,
Co-Convenor, Northumbria and Newcastle Universities Martin Luther King Peace Committee,
Lecturer, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology,
Newcastle University,
United Kingdom NE1 7RU.
Tel: +44 191 208 6450
url: www.mlkpc.org
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"It is not enough to say 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace." (Martin Luther King Jr., 1967).
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