Human Rights & Peace
Druidry and Peace: Towards a Manifesto for Global Wisdom
Dr. Thomas C. Daffern, philosopher, teacher, historian and Druid
has been teaching, lecturing
and researching for many years in Britain
and internationally, and is the Director of the International
Institute
of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy, a unique academic international network of scholars
dedicated to achieving world peace through
philosophical understanding and the furtherance of wisdom
in public
affairs. He also founded the Order of Peace Poets, Bards and Druids to focus mind on the work
of Druids in peacemaking and conflict prevention. As an intellectual historian he has invented the concept of transpersonal historiography, as a way of reconciling spiritual and scientific approaches to historical knowledge, linking the insights of transpersonal psychology with historical methodology. (1hr 1min) www.educationaid.net
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SimPol
Barnaby Flynn on the campaign trail with SimPol-UK (Simultaneous Policy - a political platform to
globalize peace, justice, sustainability and prosperity) (4.45 mins) www.simpol.org.uk
Battlefields without Borders: Iraqis in Crisis 
A talk given by the US peace activist Kathy Kelly, at Our Lady of Ransom church in Eastbourne on
Saturday, 17th November 2007. Legendary peace activist Kathy Kelly has visited Iraq 26 times and has lived
in Baghdad during the 2003 ‘Shock and Awe’ bombardment and invasion. Kathy was also in Beirut during the
Israeli bombing in 2006 and in Qana where the Palestinian children were massacred in a missile attack in
1996. She has recently lived among Iraqi refugees in Jordan and Syria. In 1988 she spent nine months in
prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites. (28 mins) www.vcnv.org
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The Law Against Peaceful Protest 
In December 2005, Maya Anne Evans became the first person in the UK to be convicted for peaceful protest within 1km of Parliament under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. On 14th January 2007, Maya spoke of her experiences and about the erosion of civil liberties in Britain and the war in Iraq at the Friend's Meeting House, Eastbourne. (27.52 mins)
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Report from Iran 
In May 2006, EMILY JOHNS travelled to Iran with a JNV/Fellowship of Reconciliation delegation during a period of international tension over Iran’s nuclear programme. This is Emily’s report given at the Friends Meeting House, Eastbourne on 14th January 2007 of her visit to meet the ordinary people of Iran.
(47.41 mins) (This programme is also available on DVD from our Gift Shop)
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