DEFCON 1
By Benson Egwuonwu Bear witness to the gross decay of hopewhen shrieking scarlet sirens hail the roomboots and suits yell orders down the phonewhile...
P&J Joins Call on Nicola Sturgeon to Stand against Cambo Oil Field
Peace & Justice has joined in a Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, a coalition of over 60 charities, unions and community groups, in a letter calling...
Disarming nun Sr. Megan Rice has Died.
Sr. Megan Gillspie Rice. January 31, 1930 – October 10, 2021 Peace and nuclear disarmament activist, Catholic nun and member of the Transform Now...
Peace Cranes exhibition launched by Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Consul General of Japan with a message from Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland
On Friday, 6 August 2021 we marked the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing with the launch of our Peace Cranes exhibition, which will run...
Peace & Justice Calls on Scottish Government to stop funding companies that are arming Israel
Peace & Justice is calling on Scottish Government to stop funding companies which arm Israel and Saudi Arabia, and on the UK to cancel...
Peace & Justice joins 170 Civil Society Organizations to demand governments reduce military spending now almost $2 trillion
Peace & Justice (Scotland) has joined with 170 Civil Society Organizations from 33 different countries to demand that governments around the world drastically reduce...
Scottish Manifesto for Peace
We’ve joined partners, Scottish CND, CAAT Scotland and others and co-signed the Scottish Manifesto for Peace. With the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections in May, we...
Britain Can be a global leader but not this way
Last week the government published The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy. “Global Britain in a competitive age”. The very title...
Peace & Justice welcomes Inverclyde Council resolution calling the Strathclyde Pension Fund divest from arms
Peace & Justice (Scotland) welcomes the recent decision made by councillors on Inverclyde Council to pass a resolution urging the Strathclyde Pension Fund (SPF)...
Budget should cut military spending to address climate crisis and human needs
By Brian Larkin Today Rishi Sunak released details of the Budget at Westminster. It included an increase in military spending from £42bn in 2020-21...
Signs of Hope in Biden’s Oval Decor: Exit Jackson and Churchill; Enter Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez
By Brian Larkin On the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration, something truly extraordinary caught my attention. It was not the tiny American flags on...
P&J Calls on UK to End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
We welcome President Joe Biden’s decision to end offensive arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We note however that...
Leave a gift in your will
Each of us leaves our mark on the world – through our relationships with other people and through our beliefs and ideas. Leaving a...
PeaceBuilders Videos: A Creative Response to supporting schools during COVID
By Fiona Oliver-Larkin, Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre’s PeaceBuilders Programme Coordinator As the coordinator of a team of people who usually work in-person in...