Publications

Author: New England Yearly Meeting

Summary: "[This] prophetic vision of the Peaceable Kingdom came out of the 1980 New England Y.M. 'Peaceable Kingdom Workshop'…"

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 1982

Publisher: New England YM

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Author: Chuck Fager

Summary: Adaptation of talk given at Illinois YM in July, 2003; Quaker peace worker urges Friends to speak out more strongly for justice and peace in the world.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2003

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Bridget Moix

Summary: Plenary address published first in Western Friend magazine. Author has worked on peace and conflict issues for many years, including with Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Quaker United Nations Office and Mexico City's Casa de los Amigos

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2011

Publisher: Wider Quaker Fellowship

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Author: Marian Hobbs, Mouana, Bakamana; Valentine, Lonnie

Summary: Panel presentation from 21st Triennial of FWCC in New Zealand in 2004: Friends from three different countries talk about working for peace and justice in their countries and the world.

Country: Aotearoa-New Zealand, DR-Congo, USA

WQF publication year: 2004

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Friends World Committee for Consultation

Summary: Excerpts from plenary speeches given at the historic World Conference of Friends that took place at Kabarak University in Kenya in April 2012. Over 850 Friends from 51 countries around the world gathered to worship, sing, dance, hear talks, participate in workshops, and learn from each other.

Country: Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, Cuba, New Zealand, Britain, USA, Rwanda, Burundi

WQF publication year: 2013

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Margaret Hope Bacon

Summary: Historian from Philadelphia YM tells about Quakers witnessing for peace through the centuries, describing both spiritual and political aspects.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 1985

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Arturo Carranza

Summary: The author suggests aspects of Quakerism he feels are relevant to Hispanics living in the U.S.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 1996

Publisher: World Gathering of Young Friends (1985)

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Author: Mary Lord

Summary: Speech given at the Annual Meeting of FWCC, Section of the Americas, Philadelphia, 2002. As the USA entered a new period of warmaking, a Friend from Baltimore YM offered a vision of how we could work for peace, with quotes from the Bible and Quaker history.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2002

Publisher: FCNL, WQF

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Author: Kat Griffith

Summary: Friends Journal article: Midwestern "liberal-type" Friend who home schools her children describes her communication with other home-schooling mothers who are fundamentalist Christians, and efforts to find common spiritual ground.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2006

Publisher: Friends Journal, WQF

Read: PDF (177K)

Author: Margaret Backhouse, Cadbury, Henry; Jahn, Gordon (Irwin Abrams, ed.)

Summary: Lectures given on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Religious Society of Friends in 1947

Country: USA, UK

WQF publication year: 1997

Publisher: The Nobel Foundation & University of Toronto Press; WQF/AFSC

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Author: Mercedes M. Randall

Summary: Excerpts from Randall's biography of Balch, "The Uncommon Bostonian." Balch was a peace activist, founder of Women's Int'l League for Peace & Freedom, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 1986

Publisher: Twayne Publishers, Inc.

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Author: Stephen Collett

Summary: Observations on how African Friends and Friends from outside Africa have worked together to bring peace to the Great Lakes Region.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2001

Publisher: Friends Publishing Corporation

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Author: Rolene Walker

Summary: Summary of the final panel discussion from the Friends World Committee for Consultation Peace Conference of 2003.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2003

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Ron Mock

Summary: Part of panel at 2003 Friends World Committee for Consultation Peace Conference, about the spiritual basis of the Friends' peace testimony.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2003

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Pam Ferguson

Summary: Article from Quaker Life. Friends pastor from Indiana YM who works with prisoners describes when her home was invaded by an escaped prisoner and how she stayed spiritually centered.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2005

Publisher: WQF, FWCC

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Author: Colin Saxton

Summary: Keynote talk at sessions of Philadelphia YM in 2008, by pastor from Northwest YM, exploring the peace testimony and its Biblical basis and how we can live it in the 21st century.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2009

Publisher: WQF

Read: PDF (199K)

Author: Gordon M. Browne, Jr.

Summary: Description of the work of QUNO, mostly from a New York office perspective.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 1996

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Jan Arriens

Summary: Dutch Friend in the UK writes about involvement in prison ministry in the UK and the USA, including befriending men who were later executed.

Country: UK

WQF publication year: 2002

Publisher: Friends Quarterly

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Author: J.E. McNeil

Summary: Friend from Baltimore YM and the Center on Conscience and War in Washington describes what conscientious objection to war is and gives a historical perspective extending into the 21st century.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2003

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Walter Wink

Summary: Article originally in Yes! Magazine with title, "Can Love Save the World?" Thoughts on pacifism after Sept. 11, 2001, from a Christian perspective.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2002

Publisher: Yes! Magazine

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Author: Adam Curle

Summary: British Friend speaking at a university in Canada in 1978, about working for peace and justice in the world at large and in our own lives, families, and so on.

Country: UK

WQF publication year: 1984

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Daniel A. Seeger

Summary: A Friend from New York YM sees the film "Gandhi" and makes observations about efforts to transform the world using violent and nonviolent means; he includes examples from the Bible, Quaker history, and other sources.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 1983

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Linda Joffee, Deming, Vinton

Summary: Joffee: British writer summarizes the life of a man imprisoned for violent IRA activities who later had a change of heart and became a Christian pacifist; Deming: interview with mixed-race Catholic man in South Africa who was working for peace and justice in the 1980s.

Country: UK, USA, South Africa

WQF publication year: 1990

Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, Friends Journal

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Author: Laura Chico, Nyiramana, Cecile; Parsons, Peggy Senger

Summary: Writings by three Quaker women on peace & reconciliations efforts in Burundi & Rwanda following the 1990s genocides.

Country: Burundi, Rwanda, USA

WQF publication year: 2005

Publisher: Various: AGLI Newsletter and unction.org

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Author: Margaret Hope Bacon

Summary: Quaker historian and author recounts a remarkable experience she had while working in a mental hospital with her husband, who was a conscientious objector during the Second World War.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2006

Publisher: Friends Journal

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Author: Susumu Ishitani

Summary: Talk given at World Conference of Friends in The Netherlands in 1991. Japanese Friend gives example of how we can live in Christian-type "self-giving love."

Country: Japan

WQF publication year: 1992

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Anthony Prete

Summary: Analysis of the Biblical concept of "shalom" and how it includes not just peace (absence of violence) but also other concepts such as justice and the equality of all people.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2008

Publisher: Friends Journal

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Author: Elise Boulding

Summary: Conflict provides opportuntity for learning. Friends might think of themselves as being in a lifelong training process for creative conflict management.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 1995

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Jack Patterson, Heninger, Lori

Summary: Story of QUNO New York work with the United Nations, with accompanying article about Quaker House at the U.N.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2003

Publisher: Friends Publishing Corporation

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Author: Troy Chapman

Summary: Reprinted from Yes! Magazine, Winter 2001-02; a man serving 60-90 years for murder describes his process of healing and religious conversion and trying to stay spiritually centered in prison.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2002

Publisher: Yes! Magazine

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Author: Tom Fox, Fullerton, Florence (ed.)

Summary: Selections from the web log of Tom Fox, who was killed in Iraq while serving with Christian Peacemaker Teams. Introduced by Florence Fullerton.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2006

Publisher: WQF

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Author: Amanda Hoffman

Summary: Story of Hector and Susie Black's decision to speak against the death penalty for the murderer of their daughter.

Country: USA

WQF publication year: 2002

Publisher: Friends Journal

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Author: Roger C. Wilson

Summary: Backhouse Lecture to Australia YM in 1981. British Friend describes how the life and message of Jesus has influenced his work for peace and justice, mainly through work with the UN.

Country: Australia

WQF publication year: 1983

Publisher: The Religious Society of Friends in Australia Inc.

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Author: Jane Orion Smith

Summary: Talk given at FWCC Peace Conference in NC, 2003; Canadian Friend offers insights on the so-called "War on Terror" from one of the neighbors of the USA.

Country: Canada

WQF publication year: 2003

Publisher: WQF

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