Quaker Council for European Affairs

Quaker Council for European Affairs is a Brussels-based lobbying body: "The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) was founded in 1979 to promote the values of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the European context. "Its purpose is to express a Quaker vision in matters of peace, human rights, and economic justice".

It has four main Programme areas:

• Peace

• • Peacebuilding and the EU
  • Online European Peace Directory
  • The EU’s Response to the Threat of Terrorism
  • Enhancing European Capacity for Peacebuilding
  • Intergroup on Peace Initiatives
  • Peace Tax at the Council of Europe
  • Europe and the Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • European Security Research

• Human Rights

• • Women In Prison
  • The Right to Conscientious Objection in Europe: A Review of the Current Situation
  • EU Asylum and Immigration Briefing Papers
  • Strangers in a Foreign Land

• Economic Justice

• • EU Consultation on Energy and a European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Briefing Papers on the EU and External Trade

• The Future of Europe and the Constitutional Treaty

• • Europe’s values and ambitions – an opportunity for action – now!
  • Briefing Papers on the Constitutional Treaty and Referenda
  • Briefing Papers on the Militarisation of the EU
  • Spiritual Values and Citizenship Project

Presentations and Reports

QCEA presentations and reports that are currently available:

• The Right to Conscientious Objection in Europe: A Review of the Current Situation (2005) -Available Online

• Working towards Economic Justice - article in The Friends Quarterly Vol.34 No.6

• Papers from the QCEA/QPSW conference in Brussels 2004

• Values matter - Quakers Reflect on Europe :Final report of the Spiritual Values and Citizenship Project (2003)- Available Online

• Offenders As People: Learning from one another’s experience across Europe: Report of a conference held at Woodbrooke, Birmingham from 17-19 September 1999.

• Biotechnology and Ethics New European Laws and Proposals by Anna Franziska Schröder (1997)

• The Common Wealth By Ed Mayo and A Double Strategy for Alternatives to Europe's Economic Structures and Policies By Ulrich Duchrow - Keynote speeches from the QCEA-Woodbrooke conference "Sharing, not Taking", held in March 1996.

• Between Hope and Disaster - Aspects of Neo-Fascism in Europe (1993)

• An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by William Penn.