NEW PEACE DIRECT PATRON ANNOUNCED

Baroness Kennedy has been involved in a large number of prominent cases, including the Brighton Bombing, the Guildford Four appeal and the bombing of the Israeli embassy. She has also acted for many battered women who have killed their husbands. As a life peer, she also participates in the House of Lords on issues concerned with human rights, civil liberties, social justice and culture.

From 1992 to 1997, she was chair of Charter88, the constitutional reform group, which persuaded the government to make devolution and human rights legislation central planks of their manifesto. From 1998-2004 she chaired the British Council, the most successful cultural organisation in the world, which she has led through a period of dynamic change.

Baroness Kennedy’s first public function as Patron will be to host an evening with Congolese peacebuilder Henri Bura Ladyi, who is supported through the Peace Direct Champions Programme.

A number of changes to the Peace Direct Board of Trustees have also been announced with former Head of Membership at the National Trust, Berry D’Arcy joining the team.