On 24th February, 12:30-14:45, UNA Warwick are hosting a hybrid event, at the Leamington Spa Baptist Church, CV32 4RN, on Inside Report on Russian Society, with speaker Dr James Pearce, historian and journalist. Two years since its invasion of Ukraine, Russian society has become more isolated from the west, but the country appears to be coping well. Is this look deceptive? […]

On 24th February, 13:15, at the Quaker Meeting House, Bexhill-on-Sea, TN40 1DG, UNA Bexhill and Hastings are hosting their AGM, followed at 14:00 by a public seminar on Refugees & Migrants and Local Communities, with speakers Sheila Kesby, Barbara Echlin and Bea Rogers discussing how to unite our local communities to welcome refugees and migrants. Please register here.

On 25th February, 16:00-18:00, UNA Luton is holding a webinar on Purbachal – the Eastern Sky, celebrating International Mother Language Day, which will combine talks, poetry, recitation, singing and a film, with cultural and faith diversity. Contributors include the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Luton Sixth Form College Principal and CEO, local MPs and Mayor. The celebration aims to raise awareness […]

On 27 February, 18:00-20:00, Uniting for Peace are holding their annual Spring Conference (online) on Avoiding a Broader Middle East War – Building Bridges for Peace Between Israel and Palestine, focusing on cultivating harmony. Speakers include Sarah Leah Whitson (Arab World Now), Jonathan Kuttab (Al-Haq and non-Violence International), Tony Greenstein (Palestine Solidarity Campaign), Vijay Mehta (Uniting for Peace), Ahmad Shahidov (Azerbaijan Institute for Democracy and Human Rights).  […]

On 29th February, 10:30 - 17:00, UNA Westminster is hosting an all-day online conference on Dag Hammarskjöld's plane crash: The Continuing Search for Truth. Our speakers at this all-day online conference will set out the landscape in which the UN inquiry has had to work, the obstacles it has faced, and identify those issues which deserve further and urgent […]

On 5th March, 19:30, at The Community Church, Werter Road, London SW15 2LL (opposite Sainsbury’s), SLUNA is holding an International Women’s Day event, Strengthening Women’s Organisations at Grassroots Level, chaired by Catherine Pluygers, Wandsworth UNA, with convenor Gillian Dare, former diplomat. The speaker will be Sierra Schraff Thomas, Womankind Worldwide. There will be refreshments. For further information, please contact Robert and Meena Storey  or Catherine […]

On Saturday 9th March, 10:30, at the Salvation Army, Harpenden AL5 2TG, UNA Harpenden is hosting a talk by Professor David Egerton, Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and of Modern History at King’s College, on Political Economy, Internationalism and British Thinking. This talk will suggest there was a distinctive British way of thinking about peace and war, […]

Our 2024 Policy Conference will be held at Bermondsey Village Hall, London SE1 3TD – and online – on 9th March, starting at 12 noon. If you want to join by zoom, please register here. Registrations for attending at the hall are here. This is your chance to help decide what stance the Region should take on a wide range […]

On 16th March, 10:30, UNA Wandsworth, with the Putney Society, invites you to join them outside Southfields Library for the unveiling of a plaque by Fleur Anderson, MP, followed by a talk by Robin Gerber, to commemorate Eleanor Roosevelt’s formative years in Southfields, where she attended Allenswood School. For further information, please contact the principal organiser.

On 19th March, 18:30, at the Alumini Lecture Theatre at SOAS, UNA Westminster, with the Bar Council of England and Wales and the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, is holding its 21st Annual International Law Lecture, on Where are we in combatting impunity? to be presented by Professor Kingsley Abbott of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. With authoritarianism, instability and conflict on […]