WCIA Volunteer Josephine Ayling is based in Bangor, and over the COVID Lockdown has been supporting WCIA’s team remotely with exploring the ‘Peace Heritage’ story of CND Cymru – the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. When I first contacted WCIA about volunteering to help with the ‘Heddwch’ magazine digitisation project, my […]
Sean McGovern is a student with Cardiff University’s Department of International Relations, currently undertaking a 3 month placement with WCIA’s ‘Peace Heritage’ programme. Here he shares his reflections on his first project task – digitisation of CND Cymru’s ‘Campaign Wales’ Archives from the early 1980s. As one of the team […]
22nd January 2021 sees the introduction of the UN International Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – banning in international law for the first time, the usage of atomic bombs in warfare. The impact of this momentous moment should not be let to slip quietly past in the shadow […]
Currently studying International Politics at Aberystwyth University, Iman is supporting WCIA through a GO Wales volunteering placement, designed to develop practical work experience through involvement in ‘real world’ projects. Joining us originally from Malaysia (and bringing a truly international perspective to the WCIA heritage team!), over lockdown Iman has helped […]
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. […]
