The QCEA/QPSW Conference in Brussels: 29 - 31 October 2010
Working for Peace in the Middle East: What can Quakers do?
Book until 30 July 2010
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Car Scrappage - Sense and Nonsense of a Popular Scheme
This paper aims at scrutinizing the reasoning of rewarding people who want to scrap their old car with a certain financial support for buying a new car.
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 320 - März 2010 (pdf - 84 kb)
Freiheit und Gewalt; Von der Transformation einer ausweglosen Situation: der Weg durch den Konflikt mit dem Zuhören nach Quäker-Art; Konferenz der Europäischen Union über Steuern und Entwicklung: Programm Assistentin für 2010
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Does Photovoltaic make Sense from an Environmental Point of View?
This paper aims to provide an introduction to the main issues around PV to help consumers make an informed decision about PV for domestic use.
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Transforming Impasse
The way through conflict with Quaker listening processes
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Investigating Alternatives to Imprisonment
within Council of Europe Member States
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EU Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan
Briefing, evaluation, and action for Quakers
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 319 - Januar-Februar 2010 (pdf - 94 kb)
Quäker auf der Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen; Die Programmassistenten dieses Jahres; EUBAM: Sicherheit, Stabilität, Unterstützung;  Soziale Gerechtigkeit Funktioniert
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Around Europe 321 - April 2010 (pdf - 1,134 kb)
Credit where credit is due; EU Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan; Ten years of Resolution 1325 - time to celebrate?
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 318- Dezember 2009 (pdf - 104 kb)
Die Nabucco Gas Pipeline; Die Einflussreichen beeinflussen; Aktive Bürgerbeteiligung
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Around Europe 320 - March 2010 (pdf - 426 kb)
Freedom and Violence; Transforming impasse: the way through conflict with Quaker listening processes; European Union Conference on Tax and Development; Programme Assistant for 2010
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Around Europe 319 - January/February 2010 (pdf - 400 kb)
Quakers at COP 15; This year's Programme Assistants; EUBAM: security, stability, support; Equality works
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 317 - November 2009 (pdf - 90 kb)
Photovoltaik - es ist Zeit zu handeln; Die muskulöse Taube – praktische Konfliktvermeidung der EU; Wasser - Grundlage des Lebens oder Quelle von Konflikten; 30. Geburtstag von QCEA und seine Feier
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 316 - Oktober 2009 (pdf - 82 kb)
Doppelte Sorgen ; Kommt der Europäische Außenpolitische Dienst zustande? Am anderen Ende der unruhigen Welle; Möge der Friede in der Welt triumphieren; Sind Änderungen in der EU-Strategie zur Terrorismusbekämpfung im Gange?
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The Nabucco Gas Pipeline:
A Chance for the EU to push for Change in Turkmenistan
The report urges the EU to make hydrocarbon revenue management a priority in its relations with Turkmenistan. It should do this by seeking to engage the Turkmen government in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a scheme which addresses resource revenue management issues and provides protected space for independent civil society groups to operate.
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Campaign: Write to your MEPs asking them to raise the issues covered in the QCEA 'Nabucco Gas Pipeline' report with the European Commission and EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton.
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Around Europe 318 - December 2009 (pdf - 295 kb)
The Nabucco Gas Pipeline; Influencing the Influential; Active Citizens’ Participation in EU policy making.
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Around Europe 317 - November 2009 (pdf - 350 kb)
Photovoltaics - Now is the Time to Act; The Muscular Dove - EU Conflict Prevention in Practice; Water – the Stuff of Life or the Source of Conflict? QCEA's 30th Birthday Celebrations.
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A call to bring the world together
On February 28, 2008 Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion. Since that day, thousands of people have contributed to the process so that on November 12, 2009 the Charter was unveiled to the world.

A number of Quakers have supported the charter with their signatures; Jean Zaru, Clerk of Ramallah Monthly Meeting and a prominent supporter of nonviolence in the occupied Palestinian Territories, has supported this initiative and given an interview which you see at this link:
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Around Europe 316 - October 2009 (pdf - 282 kb)
Double Trouble with Climate Change; Will the European External Action Service Deliver? May Peace Prevail on Earth; Changes afoot in the EU’s counterterrorism strategy?
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Around Europe auf Deutsch 315 - September 2009 (pdf - 74 kb)
Fleisch - der wirkliche Klimaverbrecher; Ein Sponsor des Krieges; Was sagt der Lissabon-Vertrag?
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Around Europe 315 - September 2009
Meat Consumption and Climate Change , Peace Tax Interview (Robin Brookes), Lisbon Treaty Summary.
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QCEA Factsheets on Ethical Dilemmas
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