Background

On June 21, 2022 President Biden announced a near-global ban on anti-personnel landmine use by the United States, fulfilling his campaign promise to reverse the Trump administration’s anti-personnel landmine policy. Here’s what you need to know about anti-personnel landmines and U.S. policy.

For decades, FCNL has worked to ban the use of landmines, which maim and kill indiscriminately, inflicting human suffering even long after conflict ends.

If the Pentagon and weapons contractors can get their $24 billion wish list for weapons and war—in addition to the $813 billion that President Biden already requested for the Pentagon in FY 2023—then the American people deserve an opportunity to get their unfunded needs met as well. This year’s People’s Unfunded Priorities List highlights five key areas.

The War Powers Resolution of 1973, otherwise known as the War Powers Act, is a federal law intended to provide a framework for Congress’s check on presidential power to use military force.

For Friends in Europe, the invasion of Ukraine has sparked urgent discussions about how to respond to the continent’s largest conflict since World War II. We spoke with Michael Eccles, executive secretary of the Europe and Middle East section of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC-EMES), to learn more.

How would you define the work and goals of FWCC in Europe and the Middle East?

At times it seems like the United States’ only answer to war is more war. As the world’s greatest superpower, the United States has become accustomed to getting its way through coercion, intimidation, and the use of force. Domination, not cooperation, seems to be the only language in which Congress and the executive branch are fluent.

Many Quaker organizations, meetings, and churches are sharing their concern around Indigenous justice and Indian boarding schools.

In 2020, FCNL launched an organization-wide initiative to become a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive institution. As part of this effort, the General Committee established a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group to ensure that change was being driven from the governance level in addition to the staff level.