AN OXFORD PEACE TRAIL?

Event Date: 19th October 2021
Location: 8pm at the Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road, Abingdon.

Next meeting: October 19th 2021, at 8pm at the Northcourt

Centre, Northcourt Road, Abingdon. Important: please see note

at the foot of this page.

AN OXFORD PEACE TRAIL?

Anne and Peter Dodd report

There are already Peace Trails: in Cambridge, London,

Manchester, Leeds, as well as in a number of other cities in other

parts of Europe – in Berlin and Prague, for example.

The possibility of creating a Peace Trail in Oxford, highlighting

people and organisations who devoted their lives to non-violence

and finding alternatives to war as a means of solving conflict has

been a potential project for some years. Anne and Peter Dodd

have made a start in the last few months and will share progress

so far in drawing up a short walking tour of plaques and places in

the centre of Oxford, commemorating people eg. Ghandi, Olive

Gibbs and events connected with peace and alternatives to

violence.

It is definitely a work in progress, raising questions of what and

who should be included or left out in a Peace Trail . . . and how

wide should a definition of ‘peace’ be? Suggestions and thoughts

will be warmly welcomed to shape the Oxford Peace Trail further.