Quakers by Peter Furtado

Author:Peter Furtado
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Quakers
ISBN: 9780747814184
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

An American Friends Service Committee advertisement for support of its relief effort in Germany in 1945.

With the establishment of the League of Nations in 1919, Quakers set up an office in Geneva to work to avert interstate conflict. After the collapse of the League, it became involved in the creation of the United Nations and UNESCO, and has worked with them ever since for human rights, disarmament and global economic issues in an attempt to remove the causes of war. Quakers have continued to work to relieve distress and injustice, and to promote dialogue between communities in war zones across the world, including Palestine and Northern Ireland.

Many Quakers have extended their peace testimony by refusing to pay a proportion of their taxes that finances the military and by campaigning for disarmament. Already in the mid-eighteenth century, the Pennsylvanian Quaker John Woolman had urged the withholding a portion of taxes; and in the twentieth century, disarmament campaigns were powerful in the interwar years and especially so following the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain in 1957. Quakers took a leading role in the disarmament movement, including at the Greenham Common women’s camps in the 1980s and the campaigns against the Trident nuclear submarines in the 1990s and 2000s. They have been equally vocal in opposing Western military actions, for example, in Vietnam in the late 1960s, in the Balkans in the 1990s, in Iraq in 2003 and in Libya in 2011.

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