Bath Stop War is a group of people from the Bath area campaigning for peace and justice.

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Our activities include

 

  • Public presence - local vigils and demonstrations
  • Local media campaigns
  • Support for national actions - publicising and arranging transport to events
  • Education - working with other organisations to promote debate

 

Find out more on the About Us page.


Activities in 2025

 

  1. Rethinking Security Visit our Rethinking Security page, for news of our next public meeting and notes on previous excellent presentations e.g. Phil Webber on the existential threat posed by climate crisis and nuclear weapons.
  2. No New Nukes in UK! At our weekly vigil, you can find out more about the US plan to house nuclear weapons at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.   
  3. End arms sales - everywhere, but especially to conflict zones.


Coming up

Mending What Can Be Mended

Zoughbi Zoughbi reflects on unarmed resistance and conflict transformation in a society under immense pressure from an illegal occupation


Friday 9th May, 19.00 - 21.00



Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution

16-18 Queen Square Bath BA1 2HN

It’s often said that no Palestinian suffers from PTSD because for all of them, old and young alike, the trauma is ever present and never over. The impact of Israel’s brutal occupation and all it entails – humiliation, harassment, deprivation, impoverishment and the constant threat of violence – is superimposed on all the usual pressures of a conservative, patriarchal society.


Zoughbi Zoughbi talks about the path of ‘unarmed resistance’ and ‘conflict transformation’ that has brought a measure of hope into a very bleak situation.

Dr Zoughbi Zoughbi is the director of Wi’am, the Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center in Bethlehem, which he founded in 1994 (Wi’am is Arabic for ‘cordial relations’). The centre offers mediation, training and psychosocial counselling to help to resolve disputes and relieve trauma.


‘The Israeli occupation has created an alarming deterioration of political, economic, environmental, psychological status and social structures,’ he has said, ‘but even in the midst of this deterioration I experience great joy in responding to people’s needs and enhancing their hopes.’


He was recently elected president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation.


This talk is hosted jointly by Bath Friends of Palestine and Bath Stop War.

Admission £5, concessions £3. Advance booking is now available on EventBrite.

Regular activities

 

  • Peace vigil every Saturday 11.30 am - 12.30 pm, outside Bath Abbey
  • Action planning by Zoom video conference as and when needed: contact us for details. 

 

You are welcome to join us!