What price peace?
Alan Pleydell asks whether Quakers should re-evaluate a commitment to total pacifism
I became a Quaker four years into my seventeen years as a Quaker international worker. We supported some outstandingly brave, local grassroots peace builders across Europe – in ex-Soviet countries, Northern Ireland and warring republics in former Yugoslavia. They reached across battle lines within their own countries as well as across state borders. Since retiring I have carried on as a volunteer. I wrestle with the deep challenges of trying to adjust the enormously unequal distributions of power and justice in world affairs.
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