Over the coming years Pax Christi will be preparing events and creating resources to ensure that the 2014-2018 commemorations reflect the need for repentance and change and lead to a commitment to peacemaking. Here we offer information on events, articles and talks, general resources, films and visuals, and resources for services and vigils Also see resources for schools and young people
- The First World War Peace Forum have produced A Summary of Work Highlights from 2013 – 2019. Download Here.
- Approaches to Remembrance and First World War commemorations: ideas to help you plan from Pax Christi
- Two Poems on Remembrance- from Fr Rob Esdaile
- Readings, poems, prayers for Remembrance produced by the Baptist Peace Fellowship
- Way of the Cross based on reflections of First World War Conscientious Objectors. Compiled by Valerie Flessati with prayers from Fr Derek Reeve.(March 2016)
- Hear my voice prayer for peace in times of war from Pope John Paul II
- Poster set from Northern Friends Peace Board
- Record of Catholic COs, taken from data-base created by Cyril Pearce
- We will remember them: Services, reflections, prayers and songs for Remembrance Sunday. Produced by Movement for the Abolition of War. Available from Pax Christi £3.00 plus 20% p&p
- Songs : 14 peace and anti-war songs for choirs to use freely. Listen to them here and download words/music here. Produced by the Movement for the Abolition of War
- Reimagining Remembrance : booklet written by Kate Guthrie,produced by Ekklesia
- Wounded Innocence , talk given by Fr Rob Esdaile at Pax Christi seminar on Remembrance and Commemoration, July 2014
- Opposing World War One – an information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. Produced by First World War Peace Forum
BELOW: RESOURCES ON FWW CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS AND PEACE INITIATIVES O THE TIME
RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS
- Pax Christi’s First World War schools page
- Assembly on Women Peacemakers from 1915: on-line resource produced by Pax Christi
ARTICLES and TALKS
- The industrialisation of war: Lessons from World War I. Article by Dr Stewart Parkinson, Scientists for Global Responsibility April 2016
- An alternative First World War hero: Chrystal Macmillan by Celia Pilkington and Harini Iyengar. Counsel, International Bar Association . January 2015
- First World War a century on, time to hail the peacemakers , Adam Hochscdhild, The Guardian 28 July 2014
- Wounded Innocence , talk given by Fr Rob Esdaile at Pax Christi seminar on Remembrance and Commemoration, July 2014
- Conscientious objectors: men who fought a different kind of battle, Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian, April 2014
- First World War in Numbers an article by Dave Knight in Pax Christi’s newsletter Justpeace, February 2014
GENERAL RESOURCES
Website Documenting Dissent with stories of FWW Conscientious Objectors and women peacemakers with a focus on Lancashire. October 2015
Commemorative Programme from the 15 May 2014 CO event in London with short biographies and photographs of those COs who were remembered and whose families took part in the event.
World War One Christmas Truce: range of resources for schools & churches produced by Martin Luther King Peace Committee
Arming all sides: a new website to compare & contrast arms trade before during and after First World War August 2014
- First World War Order Form – with a number of resources available from by Pax Christi
- Commemorating the First World War: appropriate responses for peacemakers in our newsletter Justpeace December 2013
- Britain’s 100 years of conflict – Guardian interactive resource February 2014
- Opposing World War One – an information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. British peace organisations suggest that local and national events to mark the centenary of the First World War should also honour those whose convictions led them to oppose it. Produced by First World War Peace Forum
- Benedict XV and World War I: Courageous Prophet of Peace by
Fr Ashley Beck. CTS. Available from Pax Christi for £2.50 plus 20% p&p January 2014 - We will not fight : the untold story of World War One’s COs by Will Wllsworth-Jones. Available from Pax Christi £9.99 plus 20% p&p. May 2014
- First World War Centenary website of the Imperial War Museum. Pax Christi is a registered partner.
FILMS AND VISUALS
These Dangerous Women: A documentary about the women who tried to stop the First World War. They became the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom which celebrates its centenary on 28 April 2015 (April 2015)
The War Prayer: an animation of Mark Twain”s story which is an indictment of the Philippine-American war 1899-1902. Produced by Markos Kounalakis
Film Adventists Conscientious Objectors during World War I produced by Victor Hulbert British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (July 2014)
- Poster set from Northern Friends Peace Board
- Short films on the CO’s of World War I from the Ian Hislop BBC series
Not Forgotten Part 1 – http://youtu.be/Na_qVy_Nl-4 Not Forgotten Part 2 – http://youtu.be/lCkWkL7iWpI Not Forgotten Part 3 – http://youtu.be/ZrpLaEVKqvI Not Forgotten Part 4 – http://youtu.be/DebT0hQBFBM Not Forgotten Part 5 – http://youtu.be/7KcDzy6UfJ8
- Images of some of the 20,000 COs available as a pdf CO Banner
- Photographs from the International Conscientious Objector Day event in London where 75 families of FWW COs took part.
- Photograph taken at Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Cemetery, Belgium of war grave of 15 year old V J Strudwick.
Peace headlines from papers during FWW 
