Ffion Edwards, from Llantwit Major, has been volunteering from home on WCIA’s ‘Peace Heritage’ programme – transcribing the Women’s Peace Appeal ‘American Peace Tour’ diary of WLNU Chair Annie Hughes Griffiths, from 1924. […]
Wales’ Temple of Peace has a unique architectural legacy: the only public building, Wales and world-wide, dedicated to the twin causes of peace and health. It was Pembrokeshire and Cardiff Architect Percy Thomas who rose to the challenge of turning this vision into bricks and mortar: to ‘create a peace building, for peacebuilding’. […]
For Remembrance Day 2020, explore Wales WW1 Book of Remembrance, and the story of Wales memorial to the fallen, the Temple of Peace & Health. […]
Academi Heddwch has been launched from World Peace Day 2020, heralding the start of a new decade in collaboration between universities and civil society Wales-wide, on peace building world-wide. […]
September 21st marks UN International Day of Peace – first celebrated in 1981, and observed by nations and civil societies worldwide. The theme for 2020, ‘Shaping Peace Together‘, is especially critical as the world faces the challenges of the COVID pandemic. As well as participating in a global initiatives to […]
Tribute to lifelong Welsh internationalist, scientist and ex-WCIA Trustee Professor Glyn O Phillips, who recently passed away at 92. Craig Owen reflects on his achievements and contribution to global cooperation. […]
To mark Hiroshima 75, WCIA have launched the CND Cymru Archives on People’s Collection Wales – capturing 4 decades of activism by communities Wales-wide campaigning for the abolition of nuclear weapons. […]
WCIA’s home, the Temple of Peace and Health, was founded as Wales’ memorial to the fallen of the Great War – 35,000 souls commemorated in the WW1 Book of Remembrance , held in the Crypt of the Temple (and searchable online). But few people know that there is also a […]
Wales’ Armenian Genocide Memorial was the first UK monument to formally recognise the genocide between 1915 and 1923 that killed 600,000 to 1,500,000 ethnic Armenians. […]
Published on 25th March, in a fast changing international situation. As the COVID Pandemic of 2020 has reached ‘lockdown’ for the UK and many other nations, the need for our communities – and community of nations – to work together has never been greater. Wales and the World are inextricably […]
