Sunday, July 26 2009

Peace training - Core Skills for Working in Conflict - by International Alert

Date: 
21 Jul 09 - 26 Jul 09

Overview
This is a highly practical, hands-on course designed to prepare anyone wanting to work in conflict prevention, crisis management or peacebuilding with the essential skills for working in a conflict situation. Each day of the course will focus on a particular set of skills and how to apply them in the peacebuilding context. The final day-long simulation exercise will test these skills. You will be assessed by an experienced observer who can advise you on next steps in your personal and professional development as a peace worker.

Peace News Summer Camp

Date: 
23 Jul 09 - 27 Jul 09
Join people from across the broad spectrum of the British peace movement for five days of exploration, celebration and empowerment: learning from other movements, struggling with challenging issues, creating more cohesion in a segmented peace movement and debating nonviolence.

Oakenwood Herbal Workshops

Date: 
25 Jul 09 - 26 Jul 09
Oakenwood's Herbal Weekend Workshops Oakenwood Society is a voluntary group of people who enjoy learning and teaching on the subject of herbs. After two successful years of workshops, in 2009 we offer 4 weekend workshops through the summer months that are hosted on a farm set between Bristol and Cardiff . Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. Learn how to grow and prepare herbs, discover their many uses, make herbal skin products, ointments and creams, and much more.

Upcoming events

Stop ArmingIsrael

In July 2006, as Israel launched a horrendous attack on Southern Lebanon, various organisations and individual campaigners came together to launch Stop Arming Israel.Speakers:Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Labour conference demo

  • No Trident Replacement
  • End the Occupation of Iraq
  • Don't attack Iran

Anti-nuclear summer gathering, France

The purpose of this meeting is to:

  • Discover and to get to know each other better
  • Strengthen and create the active links between us
  • Join together for the future european actions (eg. petition for 1 million europeans....,and a proposed walk to Brussels)

Bank Holiday Weekend

A lovely weekend is forecast