Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central committees of the Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends – the national organisation of Quakers in Britain. It works to promote British Quakers' testimonies of equality, justice, peace, simplicity and truth, alongside both small local and large international pressure groups. The Nobel Peace Prize 1947, announced October 30, 1947. Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee, “for their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations”. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).