A child in a refugee camp in Lebanon, near the Syrian border. Photo: CAFOD/CC

Quakers seek Syrian peace through nonviolence

Quakers in Britain are urging governments to reject violence and find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria by adopting nonviolent tools for conflict resolution. Helen Drewery, general secretary of Quaker Peace & Social Witness, said today that “Quakers see war as wrong because we value every human being so highly that killing them…