18 May 2022 marks the centenary of Wales’ Youth Message of Peace & Goodwill, first broadcast in 1922. […]
Somaliland Solidarity: #HargeisaMarketFire Appeal
Hargeisa Market Appeal by Wales Somaliland Link, April 2022 […]
Cymru Global news Education Global Perspectives History Human Rights Immigration, Refugees and Asylum War and Peace International Women’s Day 2022: #BreaktheBias
WCIA’s activities to mark International Women’s Day 2022, have been understandably overtaken by the rapidly unfolding war in Ukraine and its terrible humanitarian consequences, as women and children flee the fighting in numbers not witnessed since World War Two. The theme for International Women’s Day 2022, #IWD2022 is #BreaktheBias; and […]
#OTD 29 Jan – A most peaceful coup? The Welsh Campaign for the League of Nations
#OTD #OnThisDay 100 years ago, 29 January 1922, the campaigns of the Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) were officially kickstarted at a meeting in Shrewsbury – where philanthropist and founding patron David Davies of Llandinam unexpectedly announced that he would “endow the Welsh movement with a sum.. that would […]
OTD, 27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day
On this day #OTD, 27th January 1945, Russian soldiers liberated the notorious Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland, beginning the grisly discovery of one of the world’s greatest human rights atrocities: the Holocaust and mass extermination of Jewish peoples. The anniversary has been the focus for United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance […]
#OTD 24 January: International Day of Education celebrates UNESCO’s Welsh links #Peace100
24 January every year is UN International Day of Education, marked with activities around the world including many led by UNESCO – the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Founded in 1946, in the aftermath of the Second World War, UNESCO was a bold initiative to facilitate cooperation between […]
#Peace100 #OTD 17th January 1946: Wales’ Temple of Peace Choir opened the first United Nations General Assembly
On the evening of 17th January, 1946, the world’s first United Nations General Assembly was formally opened with a ceremonial gathering at London’s Royal Albert Hall – the ‘British Welcome’ to delegates of every nation. Reading through this opening programme from the Temple of Peace Archives (below), one remarkable thing […]
Call for papers – ‘Health and Peace’ conference, March 31st 2022.
In 1938, construction of the Temple of Peace and Health was completed in Cathays Park, Cardiff. Eighty-three years later, the name of the building is more relevant than ever in the face of growing global problems. On March 31st, 2022, Academi Heddwch will be hosting an online conference on the […]
#Peace100 Anniversaries, #OTD 10th January: League of Nations, Wales and UN
Over 2022, WCIA will be producing regular ‘Peace100’ features on significant Peace Heritage anniversaries – ‘Hidden Histories’ from the archives of the Temple of Peace and beyond. 10th January, On This Day (#OTD): The League of Nations came into being in Paris, 10 January 1920 The League of Nations, the […]
Temple83: Launch of ‘Temple Tours’ and ‘Friends’ group – as Anniversary looks to the Future
23rd November marks the anniversary of the opening of Wales’ Temple of Peace & Health, on 23rd November 1938 – with this year being a grand old 83rd birthday. WCIA are celebrating the day with the launch of recently-developed online Temple Tours, as well as a programme of monthly guided […]