Themes

Peace & Justice Themes

Every two months we focus on a different peace & justice theme. Find out more about all the themes we’ve highlighted at Peace Hub, and how you can get involved.

A Place to Call Home

Let’smake sure everyone has somewhere fit to live.

Let’s help make sure people have a roof over their head at night and are safe from unliveable conditions and sudden eviction. Let’s tackle the underlying problems and make sure everyone has somewhere fit to live.

Speak - Listen - Change

Let’s support each other’s mental wellbeing.

1 in 4 people experience a mental health problem each year, and our attitude can affect their life.

Peaceful Brum

What can we do to create peace in our city?

Let’s celebrate the positive people, places & organisations that are already helping to make peace in our city and think about what we can all do to help our community.

Think Global, Act Local, Get Equal

Let’s make our economy work for everyone!

By thinking global we can take on tax-dodgers around the world. By acting local we can make sure the benefits of the economy are shared amongst everyone. By getting equal we can improve the things we really care about.

Our Shared Environment

Let’s protect the places we love.

Our local environment is something we can all share and enjoy together. But the spaces we love are under threat: together we can take action to protect and improve our shared environment.

Our Shared Future

Be the friendly face of Brum

Refugees are fleeing from danger in their home country and come to britain to ask for safety. Let’s show that Brum is a welcoming city, proud to be a place of sanctuary.

Love & Pride

Let’s celebrate our diversity

People of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities are valuable members of our community: our diversity makes us stronger. Let’s make sure that LGBT people are accepted and celebrated in our society.

Taking a Stand

Let’s support freedom of conscience

100 years on from the Conscription Act, we need to work for peace & justice, but this often bring activists into conflict with theauthorities: many people are still put in prison for standing up for their beliefs today.

Grub's Up!

Making our Food Sustainable

Factory farming is damaging our health and environment, increasing inequality and harming animals. But by supporting small-scale sustainable farms we can have fair, affordable food for everyone.

Time to Bin Trident

Let’s spend £100 billion on health, housing & renewables: not nuclear weapons.

It’s time to consign Trident to the rubbish bin, and instead focus on peace-building, cooperation and justice.

Conscientious Objection

Then & Now

Conscientious objectors in WWI stood up for the right to refuse to kill. They worked for peaceful resoluntion to international conflict. But the freedoms they wonar e not always respected across the world.

Live, Love, Learn

Let’s spend £100 billion on health, housing & renewables: not nuclear weapons.

It’s time to consign Trident to the rubbish bin, and instead focus on peace-building, cooperation and justice.

Fairtrade

The Power is in Our Hands

Faitrade means producers of tea, coffee and many other goods get a fair price for what they’ve grown, decent working conditions and money to support their communities.

Stop Arming Repression

Let’s put human rights first

The UK sells weapons to over 100 countriues around the world, including many where violent repression occurs. Let’s stop subsidising arms, and put the moneyi nto renewable energy.