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OUR WORK QCEA works to express a Quaker vision in matters of peace, human rights and economic justice in the European political context. Keep up to date with the work of QCEA with our regular e-mail updates. OUR VISION We see the potential for Europe to become a peaceful, compassionate, open and just society, using its moral influence to encourage other countries and peoples towards the same goals. Learn more about our work on the future of Europe. QUAKER HOUSE Quaker House in Brussels, a house of architectural distinction, houses the offices of QCEA. It has meeting rooms for conferences and informal gatherings which are available to organisations for public and private meetings.

Intergroup on Peace Initiatives event of 21 November 2007 - Arming Big Brother Revisited (128KB)
Read the report of the latest Intergroup on Peace Initiatives event - Arming Big Brother Revisited - a follow-up event of the hearing on 12 September 2006 on the European Security Research Programme.

Post event update: The European Data Protection Supervisor has issued an opinion on the increasing use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. A summary of the opinion and a link to the opinion itself are available on the Statewatch website at: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/dec/eu-edps-rfid-prel.pdf

New Briefing Paper Available! Council of Europe Responses to the Threat Posed by Terrorism (106KB)
The Council fo Europe has a history in developing measures to tackle the terrorist threats faced by its member states. This began with The European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, signed in 1977, and most recently involved a high-profile report on alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers involving Council of Europe member states. This Briefing Paper outlines and examines the Council of Europe responses to the threat posed by terrorism.

Download the QCEA/QPSW/QUNO Peace Conference Report (5.46MB)
Every other year, QCEA arranges a conference – mainly aimed at European Quakers – to offer a broad basis for discussion around one of the main themes of QCEA’s work. This publication is one of the outcomes of the 2006 conference which was intended to look at the role of the European Union in peacebuilding – from a global and a European perspective. The publication provides texts from the conference and summaries of some of the workshops.

New Report Available!
Women In Prison Part One Report Available! (933KB)
In 2004 QCEA began a parallel project to that of the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) to gather information on women in prison in Europe. The role of QCEA was to gather data on the conditions of women in prison in the member states of the Council of Europe. Part One of this report gives the results of the project and makes recommendations to the European Institutions and their member states on ways in which conditions for women in prison can be improved.

New Women In Prison Part Two Country Reports Available!
With Part One of the Women in Prison report now available on our website, the specific country reports researched in Part Two of the report are now available for download. Part Two of the Women in Prison report comprises country reports which look in detail at the situation for women in prison in thirteen Council of Europe member states.

New Report Available!
Effective Counter-Terrorism: A Critical Assessment of European Union Responses (568KB)- This report builds on a series of briefing papers compiled by QCEA on the European Union's response to terrorism. The report seeks to put this into a broader critical framework of responses to terrorism which is based on the Quaker Testimonies to peace and equality.

Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine & Israel (EAPPI) vacancies for service in 2008- EAPPI provides protection by presence, supports Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and advocates for an end to the occupation. To read more about the vacancies, please click here.

The European Peace Directory Updated- an online resource for all those in Europe who are working for peace and want to find out who else in Europe is working in this field.

• Around Europe No. 299 - February 2008

Opening up the miracle of the European Parliament; Money, Money, Money; A Big Step Forward; Sara Erlandsson Joins QCEA; Calum Shaw Joins QCEA

Around Europe auf deutsch:

299 -Februar 2008 - PDF 58KB

Das Geheimnis des Europaeischen Parlamentes; Politische Auswirkungen der EU-Grundrechtecharta

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