What's on in Drayton

West Sussex, England

The proper local stuff the big sites overlook — from open mic nights to dog shows, toddler groups to talks about local history that turn out to be more interesting than you'd think. Drayton keeps its calendar surprisingly full, and we've tracked down the lot. Coffee mornings that turn into proper catch-ups. Quiz nights where the same team wins every week and everyone pretends not to mind. Craft fairs, food markets, community screenings, and workshops teaching you things you didn't know you wanted to learn. All the things that make living somewhere feel like actually living somewhere, not just sleeping there.

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Men's Breakfast - Peter Marsden

Peter is Chief Executive of peacebuilding charity, Concordis International, and is a mediator and a former child protection lawyer.   He's responsible for Concordis' work in Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Sudan and South Sudan, helping women and men affected by armed conflict to find workable solutions to root causes of their grievances. Peter's passion is to bring people together who would not normally meet, helping them to transform destructive conflict into a future-focused collaboration, to their mutual benefit.  The Concordis team seeks to change incentives where conflict is fought and felt, increasing the economic and social benefits of peaceful coexistence, whilst also increasing the costs of violence. Much of this work involves training local peacebuilders from all sides - who better to do this work than those who know intimately the history, the politics and the culture of the conflict, who will be part of these communities long after Concordis has left?  Peter left legal practice in 2007 and took a Masters in International Development at the LSE.�� He then served for three years as Director of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.  He organised peace talks in Iraq and Lebanon between high-level Iraqi religious leaders from across the sectarian divides, resulting in a joint Sunni-Shia fatwa against suicide bombing.

Sat 25 Apr07:00Immanuel Church, Chichester(2mi)

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