Afghanistan Forum

Speakers & Discussion Groups:

	How it got to this stage

	Was the attack on Afghanistan legal?

	What are the future options?

	Media Coverage

	The People of Afghanistan

We decided to arrange the Forum because there are many features of this important topic which many of us have no cut and dried opinions about. Simplistic answers are not good enough. The Forum will therefore sought to give information, place the current conflict in Afghanistan in its wider historical and global context, and provide a chance for exploration. To this end attenders were provided with factual briefings beforehand facing up to areas where there is room for more than one view.

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The complex situation in Afghanistan was explored in depth at an Open Forum organised by Eastbourne for Peace and Liberty at the Quaker Meeting House on 25 September.

During the first Plenary Session Gabriel Carlisle, War News editor of Peace News, provided a wide-ranging account of the various groups involved in the prolonged conflicts the people of Afghanistan have suffered and examined future options.

Maude Casey, who is currently working on teacher training in Afghanistan, laid special emphasis on the needs of women. All they want, she said, is health, education and peace.

George Farebrother, Secretary of Eastbourne for Peace and Liberty gave an overview of how International law effects foreign troops in Afghanistan and the way the conflict is being conducted.

The bulk of the afternoon was spent in discussion groups. There were lively discussions and plenty of suggestions for action. Most of those who took part felt that we should learn from our mistakes in the past. They concluded that the current policy is clearly not working and that there is no future in any solution imposed from outside Afghanistan.

You can read the results of the discussion groups here >

Afghanistan Responses

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Military Spending Letter

2010-2011 Report

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Peace Plaque Walk