Join us for a celebration of contemporary Black art featuring 34 artists from Africa and its diaspora. This pop-up exhibition offers a preview of AMOCA’s curatorial vision ahead of the museum’s permanent opening in 2026. AMOCA, the Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art, proudly announces its prelaunch on June 4, 2025 […]
Education Global Perspectives History Human Rights Peace Heritage Temple of Peace War and Peace Womens Peace Petition Centenary Archive of the Month: 1926 Women’s Peacemakers Pilgrimage Report, 99 years ago this May
99 years ago this month, over May-June 1926 the “Women’s Peacemakers Pilgrimage” marched from N & S Wales and each corner of the UK, uniting tens of thousands under the banner of ‘HEDD NID CLEDD’ / ‘LAW NOT WAR’. View full Report on People’s Collection Wales This report from the […]
Conscientious Objectors Day, 15 May: Supporting those who say ‘No to War’
“If the right to life is the first of all human rights Being the one on which all other rights depend The right to refuse to kill must be the second.” Inscription on COs Memorial Stone, Wales’ National Garden of Peace #OTD ‘On this Day’, 15 May has been recognised […]
Climate change Cymru Global news Education Environment Global Perspectives Health Human Rights International Exchange Peace Heritage Poverty and Development War and Peace Marking #FutureGens10 – a Decade of Welsh Action for Future Generations
Ten years after Wales’ Future Generations Act launched in 2015, it has increased prominence but is not yet driving the system-wide change that was intended, according to recent assessment by Audit Wales. This report is about how Welsh public bodies are thinking and acting for the long term. Specifically, it […]
Education Global Perspectives History Human Rights International Exchange Peace Heritage Poverty and Development Taith Projects Volunteers Dolen Cymru celebrates 40th Anniversary of Wales Lesotho Link, launched #OnThisDay #MoshoeshoeDay 1985.
By Sharon Flint, with heritage materials by Craig Owen and Khai nor Shahmir Dolen Cymru, the Wales Lesotho Link, was founded #OnThisDay over 11th-12th March 1985, with events at the Welsh Office and Temple of Peace attended by then High Commissioner O.T. Sefako. This year has not only marked Dolen’s […]
Academi Heddwch Cymru Blog Cymru Global news Education Global Perspectives History Human Rights Peace Heritage Volunteers War and Peace Womens Peace Petition Centenary International Women’s Day #IWD 2025: Accelerating Action, Inspired by our Past.
By Ffion Fielding Project Manager, ‘Hawlio Heddwch’: Women’s Peace Petition community project 100 years ago, 390,296 Welsh women signed a petition for peace, and sent it to the women of America. In 2024, we remembered their story, celebrated the centenary, and discussed ways in which we could realise their wishes. […]
The Hidden History behind ‘Daffodil Days for Peace’
Following St David’s Day 1 March 2025, WCIA are delighted to have worked with ITV Wales producer Megan Booth on her short feature exploring the history of the Daffodil. “Let Peace Bloom across the hillsides of Wales” A little known but fascinating ‘fun fact’ for St David’s Day, is the […]
Global Perspectives History Human Rights Immigration, Refugees and Asylum International Exchange Peace Heritage Volunteers War and Peace Plaque unveiled in honour of Welsh people fighting to recognise Armenian genocide
By Dylan Bilyard, Cardiff University School of Journalism WELSH-ARMENIANS have unveiled a plaque for the Welsh people who have fought to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915. “They believed that the events of 1915 did constitute a genocide and the truth was something worth fighting for,” said Armenian businessman John […]
History Human Rights Humanitarian Immigration, Refugees and Asylum International Exchange Peace Heritage War and Peace Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 – Wales’ National Ceremony at Temple of Peace
This morning in Cardiff, religious and political leaders came together to observe Holocaust Memorial Day. This commemoration of Wales honours the millions who perished in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides worldwide. The Lord Mayor, The Rt Hon Cllr Helen Lloyd Jones The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day this year is […]
Faith in Action: Welsh Churches Campaign for Peace, 1925-2025
Over 2025-26, WCIA alongside Cytun (Churches Together in Wales) and community partners Wales-wide are marking the centenary of a remarkable 1925 campaign that sought to put ‘faith into action’, by bringing together the Churches of Wales in what is thought to have been the first ecumenical (interfaith) campaign of the […]