Ploughshares Calgary Society seeks to educate and encourage research to create mutual respect and understanding so as to contribute to human security and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. By holding educational events, engaging in advocacy and publishing a regular newsletter, we seek to build sustainable peace, encourage practical steps towards nuclear disarmament and minimize recourse to military force.
NEWSLETTER
EDUCATION SESSIONS
COMMITTEES
MEMBERSHIP
“. . . they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore.”
– Isaiah 2:4
Ploughshares Calgary aims to educate and encourage public discussion on:
- Human security and nonviolent conflict resolution
- Canadian foreign and defense policies
- Nuclear disarmament, control of conventional arms, militarism and specific wars and interventions
We are a registered non-profit society in Alberta and gladly accept donations towards our work.
UPCOMING
Attention all workers and volunteers who accompany vulnerable persons in potentially dangerous situations!
Welcome all people interested in preventing gender and election based violence nonviolently and supporting community healing and reconciliation.
Recognizing this moment of intense polarization, we invite you to come to Parkdale United Church for a Ploughshares Calgary Society conversation with innovative peace leaders. Quaker Pastor Parfaite Ntahuba from Burundi and the African Great Lakes Initiative and Madelyn MacKay from the Nonviolent Peaceforce and the Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College in Nelson, BC.
Hear about and examine the attitudes and skills that the traditional peace churches have developed to diffuse violent situations.