Catch Up: “From Tanks to Tearfund – one man’s journey towards peace”

Dear friends,

David Couzens gave a fascinating account of his work in the Peacebuilding team of Tearfund last night. Hot off the press was the news that the All-party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (Who even knew there was such a lovely group?) have amassed a large number of establishment figures as signatories to a letter (attached) to Starmer asking him to rethink proposed cuts to the peacebuilding budget.

David asked us to publicise this in any way we can – via letters to the press or to our favourite magazine, in our families, churches, football clubs – or peace groups! The excellent work of peacebuilding done by David and so many other people like him is at risk if his funding is cut.

I attach the slides from last night along with the letter. Here is a link to the Times Article and also to the full letter on Alex Ballinger’s website (MP and chair of the APPG).

If you missed the talk and would like to watch it, I believe you can do so via this link (copy & paste into your browser):

 https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/-OipwVkTSVMaUVzwV4AiHCjiIRlYRru1THimsaxIuwHzMfHkfinrpzvll9X6dPsv.8wbfWpqkgtPI-EUJ?startTime=1750187088000

Let me know if it doesn’t work!

Open Letter to Starmer

• Click here - [132 KB]

Slides from talk

• Click here - [1.75 MB]