Coast to coast across the Pyrenees – by bike. 5-9 June 2009. Peace Direct supporter Rory Souter has recently returned from his 450-mile (708km) cycle from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean through the Pyrenees. It’s a four and a half day event and can be undertaken at any time during the summer; it follows a prescribed [...]
Archive: June 2009
Rory’s Pyrenees peace mission
30 June 2009Job Vacancy: Database and Supporters Assistant
30 June 2009Database and Supporter Assistant Main Purpose To assist the Individual Giving Manager in all his/her tasks, including gift processing and supporter care duties, and to maintain Peace Direct’s database of political and media contacts. A. Database You will maintain a Microsoft Access database of contacts ensuring all contacts are still relevant as well as researching [...]
Truce 20/20 showcase event
26 June 2009This week, Truce 20/20 held a special ‘Breaking Boundaries’ event to celebrate over two years of this groundbreaking project. Seventy young people have now learned about mediation, conflict resolution and prevention. They’ve shared that knowledge with their peers in schools and youth groups, taken part in national and international conferences and are going from strength [...]
New Ashima Film
26 June 2009In April we were thrilled to welcome Ashima Kaul to London to work with our Truce 20/20 project. All of the team at Peace Direct loved spending time with Ashima and finding out more about her inspiring work. Here’s footage of a talk she gave about the journey of Athwaas, bringing together Muslim and Hindu [...]
South Kordofan, the new Darfur
22 June 2009“The situation in South Kordofan is getting worse by the day. This is our analysis of what is fuelling the conflict: Oil ‘Oil money’ is creating tension between tribes and families. The Baleelah and Awlad Hiban tribes have brought weapons and announced war, accusing each other of taking compensation from oil companies for land belonging [...]
Charity Awards – Highly Commeneded
12 June 2009We are thrilled to have been Highly Commended in the prestigious UK Charity Awards at a glittering ceremony and dinner last night. Peace Direct was shortlisted in the Grantmaking category but pipped to the winner’s post by the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund for successfully campaigning for cluster munitions ban. Our congratulations to them [...]
Chief Executive Latest – Sudan
12 June 2009“I’m sitting here under a tree by the banks of the Nile in Juba. It is extremely hot and I’m envious of the boys splashing around in the river below. For various reasons it doesn’t seem like a good idea to join them… We have spent most of yesterday working on a constitution for the [...]
Day 1
09 June 2009Wet – 90 miles along the coast and inland, rain followed by harder rain but fortunately not cold, if you kept going that is! Soon very rural and rustic which was to be the theme of the trip. Great tastes too at our coffee and lunch stops – a basque omelette filled with the most [...]
Day 2
08 June 2009Breakfast – hit the spot, taking on board a lot of baguette, apricot jam and Nutella over a long period of time! Set to be our hardest day of the trip. The first thing I notice is the vertical scale is wildly different on the laminated pocket direction cards given out by PM for each [...]
Day 3
07 June 2009June 7 and Arthur and Bert’s first birthday. I owe Trend a lot for putting up with me disappearing for hours on end during the training and for manning the busy fort for the six days I’m away – we knew the boys wouldn’t notice my missing their day but it was more of a [...]
