Secure Scotland

30/09/2026

A Gaithering for People and Peace with Secure Scotland

Come along for an afternoon of connections and community action-planning for sustainable peace with Secure Scotland and the Scottish Peace Platform!
We’ll meet at Secure Scotland’s Edinburgh home, Words & Actions 4 Peace, and the event is open to all (booking required - see below)

Are you part of a peace or human rights group, or a climate and justice campaigner in Scotland? Are you interested in creating a culture of inclusion and peace? Do you want to know more about the grassroots and community-based efforts happening across the country? This event is for you.

Bringing together activities and discussions to reimagine conflict, security, and militarisation, the afternoon will be a chance to get to know other people who are engaged in this and ‘dream on’ about Scotland’s role in a fair and peaceful world. This will be followed by a shared, vegetarian Lebanese meal provided by Hummus!

The event is also a chance to learn a bit more about Secure Scotland and the Scottish Peace Platform.
Secure Scotland challenges prevailing ideas about security through starting a better conversation about keeping safe. The Scottish Peace Platform is a network for Scotland’s peace sector.

Please get in touch with any questions about the event, attendance, or accessibility: Shona McCallum, [email protected]

DETAILS
Timing: 2-6:30pm, Wednesday 21st October -
2-5pm - exercises and discussion; 5-6:30pm - shared meal

Location: Words and Actions for Peace, 58 Ratcliffe Terrace, Edinburgh, EH9 1ST

Registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-gathering-for-people-and-peace-with-secure-scotland-tickets-2002116372967

24/09/2026

Peacebuilding in Palestine and Scotland
7.00pm Tues 29 Sept Edinburgh QMHo
Quakers have a long engagement with conflict in the Middle East. Hear first hand testimony of working in Bethlehem, West Bank and Scotland.

Matthew Bittle will share an eye witness account of working last year with an organisation advocating on behalf of displaced people in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He will then reflect on recent work in civil society mediation around the strife in Scotland about refugees and asylum seekers.
We will consider the tensions of working for peace with justice in these two contexts and ask ourselves: Where do we fit in the spectrum of peacebuilding today?
Concerned with issues of mass displacement, continuing colonialism and tackling the drivers of the hostile environment? You will find this open conversation of value.

To book: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peacebuilding-in-palestine-and-scotland-700pm-tues-29-sept-edinburgh-qmho-tickets-2001689156150?aff=oddtdtcreator

Light refreshments for those coming in good time.

Donations invited for MAP.

Quakers have a long engagement with global peacework. Hear first hand testimony of working for justice and peace in West Bank and Scotland.

24/09/2026

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07/09/2026

Nuclear Policy & Peace Advocacy: Bill Kidd - Scottish Indy Podcasts https://share.google/V86hWTn17tkKwMtp8 xx

Nuclear Policy & Peace Advocacy. Join us for a discussion with Bill Kidd, former Scottish MSP and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, as he shares his expertise on one of the most pressing global issues: nuclear weapons and energy policy.

09/08/2026

A quiet time at Faslane , where the birch trees wave their branches thirty feet above the space where many years ago we planted dafodills in the shape of the CND symbol to remind the base inhabitants about the US indiscriminate racist attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki's civilian populations 81 years ago. As nuclear-armed Israel continues the Palestinian Genocide, supported by the nuclear-armed US , we contemplate the UK's nuclear weapons, presumably still targeted on Moscow, and we consider that 'first strike' which defined the development of man-made capacity to destroy humanity, most other forms of life and the planet itself . This 'norm', which has dominated negotiations and the relationship between human beings and Earth. has reached new absurdity. In the early hours of Wednesday morning August 5 , NASA launched a rocket that crashed into the moon, thus achieving a fine demonstration of complete lunacy. These guys cannot be allowed to continue to be in charge if we are to survive.

04/08/2026

Come along to the opening of a new exhibition -
(Op) Pressed Flowers, by Naz Saad.
Enjoy a cold drink and some Lebanese food
Words & Actions for Peace, 58 Ratcliffe Ter EH9 1ST
6.30 pm on the 6th August

In addition to writing for Bylines Scotland, Naz is a fine arts graduate of the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris. Born in Pakistan, her work is inspired and informed by the dialogue between East and West and her own commitment to equality and human rights.
Words & Actions and BYLINES Scotland - https://bylines.scot/ - Summer Party is our ‘offering’ for Hiroshima Day, providing a follow-on positive event, taking place after Edinburgh CND’s annual Hiroshima vigil 5.00 – 6.00 at the foot of Castle St

03/08/2026

Come along to the opening of a new exhibition -
(Op) Pressed Flowers, by Naz Saad.

Enjoy a cold drink and some Lebanese food
Words & Actions for Peace, 58 Ratcliffe Ter EH9 1ST
6.30 pm on the 6th August

(Words & Actions and BYLINES Scotland - https://bylines.scot/ - Summer Party is our ‘offering’ for Hiroshima Day, providing a follow-on positive event, taking place after Edinburgh CND’s annual Hiroshima vigil 5.00 – 6.00 at the foot of Castle St