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Quaker Peace and Social Witness

January 01, 1970

Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central committees of Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends – the national organisation of Quakers in Britain. It works to promote British Quakers' testimonies of equality, justice, peace, simplicity and truth. It works alongside both small local and large international pressure groups.

In 1947, the then Friends Service Council received the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the American Friends Service Committee, on behalf of the Quakers.

UK Peace Work edit

Peace Campaigning and Networking: aims to encourage a wider and deeper understanding of the peace testimony and to promote disarmament and work against militarism.

Turning The Tide: promotes positive social change and helps groups to increase their effectiveness using active nonviolence.

Peace Education: supports a range of initiatives for peace education in schools through advising and supporting teachers involved in conflict resolution and peer mediation programmes.

Social Witness edit

Economic Issues: works with grassroots organisations to bring change to UK government, IMF and World Bank policies. QPSW also aims to influence the environmental and social policies of UK based transnational companies.

Crime & Community Justice: works to promote the concept of restorative justice, responds to government papers and oversees the "Circles" Scheme.

Circles of Support & Accountability: works with groups of trained volunteers and recently released sex offenders. It aims to reduce re-offending and enable the ex-offender to integrate into society in a healthy way. In 2007-8, the initiative has been passed to Circles.uk, and while Quakers may continue to be involved as volunteers, the organisation has shifted into a new phase as an emerging national network of volunteers of all faiths and none.

Quaker Prison Ministers: work within multi-faith prison chaplaincy teams to offer spiritual support and friendship to prisoners of all faiths and none.

Quaker Housing Trust: is Britain Yearly Meeting’s own housing charity. QHT helps local Quaker-supported social housing projects through advice, loans and grants.

Parliamentary Liaison: seeks to express the values of the Society of Friends in the context of current political discussion.

The Friends Educational Foundation: is a group of charitable funds, which QPSW administers on behalf of Meeting for Sufferings.

Global Work edit

Uganda: the role of QPSW in Uganda is to support, train and offer consultancy to groups and organisations working on peacemaking and peacebuilding.

Post Yugoslav countries: working on the background facilitation of real truth and reconciliation and dealing with the past, QPSW has workers in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia.

Middle East: QPSW manages the UK/Ireland Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, sending human rights observers to accompany peace activists in their nonviolent actions.

Quaker United Nations Office: QUNO in Geneva concentrates on three areas; Disarmament and Peace, Human Rights and Refugees and Global Economic Issues. QUNO works in Geneva and New York City to consult with the United Nations Economic and Social Council on behalf of the Friends World Committee for Consultation.

South Asia: QPSW works to strengthen the nonviolence movement in the Indian sub-continent by helping to link peace and social change organisations.

QPSW and AFSC received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947, as representatives of the Quakers.

History edit

The roots of QPSW are in the missionary work done under the name of Friends' Foreign Mission Association (1868–1927). With the decline of the missions, the Mission Association merged with the Council for International Service (1919–1927) to form the Friends Service Council (1927–1978). Which was renamed Quaker Peace and Service (1979–2000), known as Quaker Peace & Social Witness since 2001.

See also edit

References edit

  • Quaker Peace and Social Witness on Nobelprize.org  

External links edit

  • QPSW website
  • Quaker United Nations Office
  • Mundus – Archives of QPSW

January 01, 1970
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Quaker Peace and Social Witness news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Quaker Peace amp Social Witness QPSW previously known as the Friends Service Council and then as Quaker Peace and Service is one of the central committees of Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends the national organisation of Quakers in Britain It works to promote British Quakers testimonies of equality justice peace simplicity and truth It works alongside both small local and large international pressure groups In 1947 the then Friends Service Council received the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the American Friends Service Committee on behalf of the Quakers Contents 1 UK Peace Work 2 Social Witness 3 Global Work 4 History 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksUK Peace Work editPeace Campaigning and Networking aims to encourage a wider and deeper understanding of the peace testimony and to promote disarmament and work against militarism Turning The Tide promotes positive social change and helps groups to increase their effectiveness using active nonviolence Peace Education supports a range of initiatives for peace education in schools through advising and supporting teachers involved in conflict resolution and peer mediation programmes Social Witness editEconomic Issues works with grassroots organisations to bring change to UK government IMF and World Bank policies QPSW also aims to influence the environmental and social policies of UK based transnational companies Crime amp Community Justice works to promote the concept of restorative justice responds to government papers and oversees the Circles Scheme Circles of Support amp Accountability works with groups of trained volunteers and recently released sex offenders It aims to reduce re offending and enable the ex offender to integrate into society in a healthy way In 2007 8 the initiative has been passed to Circles uk and while Quakers may continue to be involved as volunteers the organisation has shifted into a new phase as an emerging national network of volunteers of all faiths and none Quaker Prison Ministers work within multi faith prison chaplaincy teams to offer spiritual support and friendship to prisoners of all faiths and none Quaker Housing Trust is Britain Yearly Meeting s own housing charity QHT helps local Quaker supported social housing projects through advice loans and grants Parliamentary Liaison seeks to express the values of the Society of Friends in the context of current political discussion The Friends Educational Foundation is a group of charitable funds which QPSW administers on behalf of Meeting for Sufferings Global Work editUganda the role of QPSW in Uganda is to support train and offer consultancy to groups and organisations working on peacemaking and peacebuilding Post Yugoslav countries working on the background facilitation of real truth and reconciliation and dealing with the past QPSW has workers in Bosnia Croatia and Serbia Middle East QPSW manages the UK Ireland Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel sending human rights observers to accompany peace activists in their nonviolent actions Quaker United Nations Office QUNO in Geneva concentrates on three areas Disarmament and Peace Human Rights and Refugees and Global Economic Issues QUNO works in Geneva and New York City to consult with the United Nations Economic and Social Council on behalf of the Friends World Committee for Consultation South Asia QPSW works to strengthen the nonviolence movement in the Indian sub continent by helping to link peace and social change organisations QPSW and AFSC received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 as representatives of the Quakers History editThe roots of QPSW are in the missionary work done under the name of Friends Foreign Mission Association 1868 1927 With the decline of the missions the Mission Association merged with the Council for International Service 1919 1927 to form the Friends Service Council 1927 1978 Which was renamed Quaker Peace and Service 1979 2000 known as Quaker Peace amp Social Witness since 2001 See also editAmerican Friends Service Committee Conscientious objector Conscientious objection throughout the world Global citizens movement International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons List of peace activists Mohandas Gandhi Peace Peace Organisation of Australia Peace symbol Peace flag Quakerism in Sichuan Category Peace movements Category Peace Category Peace organizations Category Peace awards Category Anti war movement Category Anti war protests Category Anti nuclear movementReferences editQuaker Peace and Social Witness on Nobelprize org nbsp External links editQPSW website Quaker United Nations Office Mundus Archives of QPSW Retrieved from https en 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