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>For immediate release - 12/17/2009 2:32:00 PM

>WANTED: PEACE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has invited the submission
of workshop proposals for the International Ecumenical Peace
Convocation (
http://www.overcomingviolence.org/en/peace-convocation.html
)(IEPC) to take place in Jamaica in May 2011. Proposals must
be submitted by 31 March 2010. 

The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation will mark the
conclusion of the WCC Decade to Overcome Violence (
http://www.overcomingviolence.org/ ). It will be both the
harvest festival of the DOV and a planting season for fresh
initiatives.

"Reasoning"is the name given to a series of workshops that will
take place during the IEPC in Kingston, Jamaica, 17 to 25 May
2011. 

The “Reasoning” workshops will offer an opportunity to share
concrete examples of peacemaking, learn from the experience of
others and deepen reflections on the four IEPC themes: Peace in
the Community, Peace with the Earth, Peace in the Marketplace and
Peace among the Peoples. 

“Reasoning” workshops will provide participants with valuable
tools and resources to take home and put into action in their
particular contexts. The workshops will be a place to meet people
from different regions and traditions in order to discern
together how to be agents of God’s transforming presence in the
world.

Further background information as well as a proposal form can be
downloaded from the DOV website (www.overcomingviolence.org).The
deadline is 31 March 2010. 

>International Ecumenical Peace Convocation: 
>http://www.overcomingviolence.org/iepc

Further background information and workshop proposal forms:
http://www.overcomingviolence.org/?id=7400

Additional information:Juan Michel,+41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507
6363media@wcc-coe.org

The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith,
witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical
fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings
together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches
representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110
countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic
Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, from
the Methodist Church in Kenya. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.