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Online Seminar 2 December 2025
Nicolás Paz, Director of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative
A nonviolent world is what the Pax Christi movement worldwide works for. Pax Christi Scotland joined with Pax Christi followers in Ireland to host Nicolás Paz, Director of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative. Hear him discuss the depth and power of nonviolence, not as passive idealism, but as a proven, strategic approach to addressing conflict.
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Marian Pallister on Radio Alba, 30th November 2025
At the start of Advent, Marian Pallister reflects on the parallels between Holy Land society at the time of That first Christmas and 2025.
An Alternative Vision of Security -
A Scottish Witness Against Nuclear Weapons,
29th October 2025
Pax Christi Scotland and Justice & Peace Scotland brought together a number of Scotland’s peace organisations for an event we called ‘An Alternative Vision of Security - A Scottish Witness Against Nuclear Weapons’. This complemented a conference and vigil in London when letters were delivered to 10 Downing Street and the French embassy calling on the two nations to roll back from the Lancaster House treaties, re-signed this year to ‘maintain and develop nuclear weapons’.
This podcast offers our reasons why Scotland believes in a world free from nuclear weapons.
The Peace of Christ
Pax Christi Scotland became one of the member organisations of Pax Christi International in 2019. This Catholic peace movement, with its 120 member organisations worldwide, promotes peace, respect of human rights, justice and reconciliation throughout the world.
The global network, founded in 1945 at the end of the Second World War, believes that peace is possible and that vicious cycles of violence and injustice can be broken. Pax Christi Scotland seeks to address the root causes & destructive consequences of violence within our own society, as well as campaigning to end violent conflict and war around the world.
Pax Christi Scotland supports Pax Christi International’s role as an influential advocate at intergovernmental levels, influencing global peace policy in the UN and UNESCO, the African Union, and the European Union. We are represented on Pax Christi International’s anti nuclear group.
Striving for a nonviolent society in Scotland is our top priority, working through the home, the school, the parish and wider society. With our members, scattered across the length and breadth of Scotland, we will address:
- Discrimination in all its forms
- The language of violence
- The need for a peace-filled welcome for refugees & migrants
- The need for divestment from nuclear & conventional weapons
- The need to remove Trident from Scotland & persuade the UK government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Our aim is to produce resources, to provide an online space for reflection, discussion and training, to be advocates for change in all arenas concerned with nonviolence, and to raise awareness injustice and disregard for human rights.
These are not easy times, but the fact that so many of us here in Scotland and around the world work and pray for peace is encouragement that – as Pax Christi International asserts – ‘vicious cycles of violence and injustice can be broken’. Lets break them together.
Pax Christi Scotland chair Marian Pallister participating in the August 2024 vigil at Faslane nuclear base.
Pax Christi Scotland members joined with members of Justice and Peace Scotland at the Faslane August 2024 vigil.
We continue to work for a world free from weapons of mass destruction.