Peace

Why couldn’t I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here, and this sidewalk belongs to me?

This book recovers memories missing in current commemorations of World War One. It tells of war resisters in Leicester and Leicestershire, of man who put conscience before fighting, ...

War No More aims to convince people that wars are not inevitable and that conflicts – national and international – can and must be solved in other ways if the human race is to survive.

DVD The wider context of conscientious objection in WW1 and the continuing legacy of war resistance are explored in additional features which can be selected from the main menu.

In America, 1918 was a time of zealous patriotism. But not everyone believed in the rightness of war. Leslie Hotson’s conscience led him to go to France with the American Friends Service Committee to repair the wounds of war.

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.

They are part of rebel factions, national armies, paramilitaries, and other armed groups and entrenched in some of the most violent conflicts around the globe.