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“For now we see in a mirror, dimly.” — 1 Corinthians 13:12

Peacemaking and global security

Child soldiers

Cluster munitions

Department of Peace

From nonviolent communication skills to conflict resolution techniques to cultural relationship building, the Department would employ proven and effective strategies for diminishing violence in our country and the world. Its work would range from providing support for state and local governments as they address domestic violence to establishing a U.S. Peace Academy. The 214th General Assembly (2002) called for "the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace at the cabinet level, in order to provide focused government efforts to promote peacemaking."

Disarmament

Faithful Security: The National Religious Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons Danger

Faithful Security is a network of citizens who participate in the National Religious Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons Danger. Participants are committed to organizing religious communities on a local level to break faith with nuclear weapons once and for all. Faithful Security works toward the permanent elimination of nuclear weapons by empowering religious communities to take action on a local level. The group has created a toolkit to provide resources to learn about the nuclear weapons danger and suggests action to build a safer world for all of our brothers and sisters.

Non-Governmental Organization on Disarmament, Peace and Security

For more than thirty years, the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security has provided services and facilities to hundreds of citizens' groups concerned with the peace and disarmament activities of the United Nations. Because of its distinguished efforts as conference organizer, network clearing house, newspaper publisher, and year-round UN liaison, the NGO Committee is viewed as a primary ally of the international movement for arms control, peace and disarmament, and the continuing body designated to serve this worldwide constituency. The NGO Committee publishes a periodical Disarmament Times that looks at nuclear disarmament, the small arms trade, weapons in space, and other issues related to peace and security

World Religions for Peace

A Call for Arms Control and Nuclear Disarmament

General Assembly Actions

Summary of General Assembly Actions Related to Nuclear Weapons  

Land mines

Each month, eight hundred people die and 1200 are wounded by existing land mines. Most of the victims are children, women and the elderly. The PC(USA) General Assembly, along with many organizations and world leaders, has called upon the United States to ban the production, sale and use of antipersonnel land mines. Find out why and learn what you can do!

Stopping Torture

General Assembly Policy

Advocate

Study Materials

No2Torture Poster

Worship Materials

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Links

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
(Formerly Known as the School of the Americas)

God in Jesus Christ calls us to make peace. Recognizing that the nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean have experienced “sustained levels of violence, that military leaders of the countries have been responsible for many incidents of violence and have been implicated in human rights abuses, and that many of those leaders were trained at the School of the Americas the 206th General Assembly (1994) called for upon the United States government to

  1. eliminate any and all funding for the School of the Americas, and close the school;
  2. cease any further training of the military leaders from the countries of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean; and
  3. use the funds that have been spent on the School of the Americas to support — both in the U.S. and in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean — programs for women, children, the hungry, the homeless, and other victims of violence.

The 207th General Assembly (1995) reaffirmed this action. The mission of the School of the Americas has been taken over by the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation.

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