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2007 Newsletter INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEACE STUDIES AND GLOBAL PHILOS- OPHY Rhos y Gallt, Llanerfyl, Near Welshpool, Powys, Wales, SY21 OER Tel/Fax: 01938 820586 website: www.educationaid.net email: [email protected] Director, Thomas Clough Daffern B.A. (Hons) D.Sc. (Hon) PGCE email: [email protected] Tel. 01938 820586 Mobile: (m) 07951 600959 Secretary General, Mary Napper (B.A. Hons.) 01939 233834 email: [email protected] International Secretary: Sheena McDonagh 07779851739 [email protected] Olga Skerry, Development Coordinator, London 0207 341 7632 Mobile 0798 5590052 [email protected] Treasurer: Jenny Wheatcroft B.A. (Hons.) Tel. 00 64 4 2932987Email: [email protected] IIPSGP 2007 NEWSLETTER 1.EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION: Firstly, I thought I’d take this opportunity of the Newsletter to let you know a little of what I have been up to in the past year (2006). All in all it’s been a pretty eventful and memorable year for me, so I thought I would share it with my friends and IIPSGP members. This year (2007) there is no MUSES Journal per se; instead, members will receive a free copy of my SELECTED PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS 1985-2005 on CD rom. This is a 795 page book, which has been published in hard back form by www.lulu.com/iipsgp –The essays are divided into 9 sections, one dedicated to each to the 9 Muses, as is the normal Muses Love Journal from IIPSGP. I hope you enjoy them ! Next year a Journal ! In the Spring and Summer terms I was teaching still at Sherwood Hall School in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, and enjoying the regular rhythm of commuting to work, living in Nottinghamshire in the week and coming home for weekends, staying in an interesting part of Nottingham called Sherwood. Whilst living there I managed to visit many interesting places which I hadn’t seen before, including Burghley House (on the borders of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, where the Cecil family have lived for centuries), Woolsthorpe Manor (where Sir Isaac Newton was born and lived), Newstead Abbey (of Byronic fame), and Chatsworth House (where Thomas Hobbes acted as tutor to the Devonshire family). Sherwood Hall itself was a difficult school in special measures and I realized my talents as a teacher could be better placed elsewhere, so in September I started a new job as Head of Religious Studies and Philosophy (plus PSHE and Citizenship) at Poole Grammar School. This results in a similar weekly commute, but the school is much more academically advantaged and I am able to teach Philosophy and Religious Studies A level as well as generally running an interesting and successful department in a high achieving school. Getting to know Dorset and the South West in general again is another plus, even though I miss my friends from Nottinghamshire (and some pupils !). Otherwise I have also been busy doing my other teaching and research work connected to the ongoing work of my International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy, which have included running a Philosophy Day for Children (and accompanying parents) in Powys in November, running the SIR EDWARD HERBERT SYMPOSIUM on SEPTEMBER 30, 2006 (both of these events took place at Brithdir Hall, Powys). I was also supposed to go to India for an educational conference this December but it was finally agreed to postpone the trip to Summer 2007 and instead I sent the organizers an academic paper instead, entitled SCIENCE, SPIRITUALITY AND INTERCULTURAL INSIGHTS: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS. At Beltane, May 1st, I was presented with the ceremonial regalia of the Peace Officer of the Council of British Druid Orders at Avebury, at a public ceremony attended by various friends, family and assorted Druids. This consisted of an amazing Millennium Peace Sword with the words for peace in different languages carved on the blade, plus a Hermetic wand of ash wood with a dove carved on the top in silver. On May 6th I hosted a Birthday Peace Party at Rhos Gallt, Llanerfyl this year to celebrate my 50th birthday. Friends came from far and wide, including Gila Haron who flew all the way from Israel for the weekend and brought me an amazing book about Newton’s esoteric studies by an academic in Jerusalem. We had a wonderful bonfire, poetry, music, dancing, a peace meditation, a river walk, storytelling and feasting which went on to the small hours. Thank you to everyone for making it so special ! In June I organized a symposium called PATTERNS OF HARMONY: DRAWING ON THE ENNEA- GRAM AND SPIRITUAL WISDOM SOURCES FOR COLLECTIVE PEACEMAKING and ENLIGHT- ENMENTS which took place near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. My colleague Gayle Scott came over from the USA especially to help run this event which was thoroughly enjoyed by all concerned. Also during the Summer I gave various talks around and about which seemed to go down quite well, including one to KEELE UNIVERSITY PAGAN MOOT on May 9th called PAGANISM AND EDUCA- TION: DOES HISTORY HAVE A FUTURE ?, one at THE SUNRISE SUMMER SOLSTICE CELE- BRATION on 21st June, in South Somerset the theme of Cosmic Philosophy and Sustainable Peace, another one in July at DERBY FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE on DRUIDRY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF PEACE, and another to the HISTORIES AND MYSTERIES STUDY GROUP on June 5th, 2005, in Stoke on Trent, on RE-SEARCHING FOR THE LOST PEACE: THAT MOST OCCULT OF ALL HIDDEN MYSTERIES. I also greatly enjoyed attending the Forbidden Knowledge UK Conference in Stoke organized by Sheena McDonagh, IIPSGP International Secretary, which included a wide range of speakers, such as Michael Cremo, Hamish Millar, Nick Pope, Philip Gardener etc. On June 21st I participated in the STONEHENGE SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRA- TION and had an official day off from school to make this possible, under new legislation for religious minorities to be given sacred holidays off each year, in my case the Druid and pagan faith, for which 21st June is an important high holiday. I also took part from August 2 – August 6th in the Big Green Gathering, which was an enjoyable and memorable experience as ever. A student from Portugal was also with me working with the Global Green University. Several friends from different parts of the world also came to visit with me and experience our RURAL PEACE STUDY RETREATS during the Summer months, complete with the possibility of river bathing in the Banwy River etc. and enjoying the peace and stillness of nature in all its beauty. During the Summer another MA student followed me around and made a short 30 minute documentary about my work, which is now available on DVD (please send an SAE plus a cheque for 3 pounds to cover the costs involved, to me in Wales, if you would like a copy). On August 5/6 at Holyhead, Mona (Anglesey), I hosted and chaired a British-Irish Peace Sympo- sium on Ending The Wars, Making The Peace, whose purpose was the launch the TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION FOR BRITAIN AND IRELAND (TRCBI), as well as an ECO- COUNCIL OF THE ISLES. This last aspect was doubly important given that this year has also seen the release of the excellent film by Al Gore and environmental issues remain high on the global agenda. My take is that we need a collective approach across both UK and Irish governments to address specific ecological issues affecting the islands in general. The TRCBI was also well and truly launched and a film made of its opening meeting. Next year it will meet in Ireland instead, possibly at the SAOR OLLSCOIL NA H'EIREANN / FREE UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, on whose board I remain active as a Governor. All who hold the long term interests of peace in both Britain and Ireland dear to their hearts are asked to support this new initiative (TRCBI). It is open especially to hear testimony from anyone who wishes to apologise and move on from their involvement in the times of troubles. The good news is that there has been an historic peace agreement now between Sinn Fein and Dr. Ian Paisley’s , and on May 8th 2008 power will be devolved back to a new Northern Irish government based at Stormont. This new government has every god wish for success from IIPSG, and to comenemorate its formation (on the same day as IIPSGP’s Director’s birthday !) we will be holding a peace party and peace medication celebration at Llanerfyl, on Saturday May 5, on the bank holiday weekend. There will be a bonfire and peace mediation in the garden, and all IIPSGP friends and members are welcome, in celebration of the successful new stage of peace in Northern Ireland, something to which we have worked with the work of our TRCBI and related projects over many years. Some things I just had to miss, sadly, due to other commitments, including: COUNTDOWN TO PEACE at St James’ Church in London on May 6, organised by long time IIPSGP friend Dorothy Forster, and also the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS/ UN PEACE COMMISSION biannual meeting at the UN Headquarters on May 2nd which IIPSGP friend Rebecca Klein attended instead, and also the INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION biannual conference from June 29-July 3 in Calgary, Canada (where I lived from 1978-1981) but this was attended by Dr Sean English of the Saor Ollscoil na h’Eireann who reported back at Holyhead in August, since we are both co-chairs of the IPRA Peace Theories Study Commission. In December I gave a talk on A Garland Of Grace: Christianity in The Welsh Marches at Shrewsbury Museum to commemorate an exhibition on the History of the Churches of Shropshire.
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