Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) is a Quaker group that supports and encourages ‘the active promotion of peace in all its height and breadth’. We hope you find what you are looking for, and more, on this website.
Featured Events
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11 Jun 2022
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Hexham Debates: Why do we need to rethink security?
Prof Paul Rogers. Live-streamed on Facebook & Zoom. Details here.
Featured pages
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Peace and Climate Change
... links shared here include a range of Quaker resources and organisations, and those from other parts of the wider peace movement that address the links between the climate crisis and peace.
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Ukraine
Some links and resources at a time of crisis: - This page has external links to resources that we hope are helpful in building understanding and in promoting peace in relation to the war in Ukraine.
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The Quaker peace testimony – resources
This page aims to give some points for exploration of both historic and contemporary aspects of the Quaker peace testimony, with material from a variety of Quaker perspectives.
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About
Quakers from throughout the North of Britain, meeting and working together ‘to advise and encourage Friends in the North … and through them their fellow citizens, in the active promotion of peace in all its height and breadth.’ Read more here.
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Nuclear Ban info: the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
TPNW background information and news
NFPB Voices
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Earthlings – Grow Up or Die Out
Guest blog from Geoff Tansey (originally published here ) I wondered what a benign long-lived alien race observing Earth for millennia would make of what is happening to us on earth today. Perhaps it might go something like this. An open letter to all of humanity In a lot of your fiction and movies you … Read more
Latest News
News relating to our work is also published in an occasional newsletter and shared through our Facebook , Twitter and Instagram accounts.
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Nuclear weapons – danger and opportunity
The war in Ukraine has had a devastating humanitarian impact. … At the same time as the war grinds on in and the brutality continues, preparations are under way for a very different event in central Europe; the first meeting of the states parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), from 21-23 June.
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Ukraine: need for pathways to peace
We have today sent the following text in a letter to the UK Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss: Quakers are united in distress at the terrible toll that the continuing war in Ukraine is taking on human life. There can be no justification for military action such as that taken by Russia, however strongly grievances might be felt. As a community committed to peace, it pains us to recognise that the situation in which citizens of Ukraine find themselves is one in which armed resistance seems, to most, to be the only option.
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Earth day – mind the gap
In January we were pleased to support the collaborative webinar on what else needs to be addressed after COP26 – making links to the consequences of militarism and highlighting the fact that these are not included in UN climate talks or plans. The year has seen an horrific increase in military action in Europe in … Read more