Study Tour to Brussels and Luxembourg: 20 - 25 June 2010
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Transforming Impasse
The way through conflict with Quaker listening processes
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Investigating Alternatives to Imprisonment
within Council of Europe Member States
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EU Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan
Briefing, evaluation, and action for Quakers
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Around Europe - December/January 2010 (pdf - 400 kb)
Quakers at COP 15; This year's Programme Assistants; EUBAM: security, stability, support; Equality works
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 317 - November 2009 (pdf - 90 kb)
Photovoltaik - es ist Zeit zu handeln; Die muskulöse Taube – praktische Konfliktvermeidung der EU; Wasser - Grundlage des Lebens oder Quelle von Konflikten; 30. Geburtstag von QCEA und seine Feier
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 316 - Oktober 2009 (pdf - 82 kb)
Doppelte Sorgen ; Kommt der Europäische Außenpolitische Dienst zustande? Am anderen Ende der unruhigen Welle; Möge der Friede in der Welt triumphieren; Sind Änderungen in der EU-Strategie zur Terrorismusbekämpfung im Gange?
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The Nabucco Gas Pipeline:
A Chance for the EU to push for Change in Turkmenistan
The report urges the EU to make hydrocarbon revenue management a priority in its relations with Turkmenistan. It should do this by seeking to engage the Turkmen government in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a scheme which addresses resource revenue management issues and provides protected space for independent civil society groups to operate.
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Campaign: Write to your MEPs asking them to raise the issues covered in the QCEA 'Nabucco Gas Pipeline' report with the European Commission and EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton.
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Around Europe 318 - December 2009 (pdf - 295 kb)
The Nabucco Gas Pipeline; Influencing the Influential; Active Citizens’ Participation in EU policy making.
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Around Europe 317 - November 2009 (pdf - 350 kb)
Photovoltaics - Now is the Time to Act; The Muscular Dove - EU Conflict Prevention in Practice; Water – the Stuff of Life or the Source of Conflict? QCEA's 30th Birthday Celebrations.
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A call to bring the world together
On February 28, 2008 Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion. Since that day, thousands of people have contributed to the process so that on November 12, 2009 the Charter was unveiled to the world.

A number of Quakers have supported the charter with their signatures; Jean Zaru, Clerk of Ramallah Monthly Meeting and a prominent supporter of nonviolence in the occupied Palestinian Territories, has supported this initiative and given an interview which you see at this link:
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Around Europe 316 - October 2009 (pdf - 282 kb)
Double Trouble with Climate Change; Will the European External Action Service Deliver? May Peace Prevail on Earth; Changes afoot in the EU’s counterterrorism strategy?
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 315 - September 2009 (pdf - 74 kb)
Fleisch - der wirkliche Klimaverbrecher; Ein Sponsor des Krieges; Was sagt der Lissabon-Vertrag?
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Around Europe 315 - September 2009
Meat Consumption and Climate Change , Peace Tax Interview (Robin Brookes), Lisbon Treaty Summary.
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QCEA Factsheets on Ethical Dilemmas
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