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WCC NEWS: New study guide on overcoming violence
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Thu, 6 May 2010 14:10:01 +0200
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STUDY GUIDE TO HELP PREPARE WORLD CONVOCATION ON PEACE
>For immediate release: 06 May 2010
“Telling the Truth About Ourselves and Our World”, a study guide on
overcoming violence in contemporary contexts, has been published by the
World Council of Churches in English, French, German and Spanish as part
of the build-up to the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC)
(Link: http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=1e26e47c41792c7f2044 )
in May 2011 at Kingston, Jamaica.
Gathering about 1,000 representatives from church-related peace networks
from all over the world, the convocation will mark the culmination of the
ongoing ecumenical Decade to Overcome Violence (2001-2010) – Churches
Seeking Reconciliation and Peace.
Four main sections of the study guide provide resources for discussion of
the central themes of the IEPC: peace in the community, peace with the
Earth, peace in the marketplace and peace among peoples.
The pattern suggested as a process for considering each theme provides an
opportunity to relate the theme to one’s own context and experience,
further reflection on the theme in a global perspective, a search for
one’s own vision of peace and a commitment to action.
The study guide also provides resources for prayer, study, further reading
and action.
The publication is now available in English, French, German and Spanish on
the Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) website (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=1c5e5bcf427d1845ddef ).
Printed booklets may be ordered from dov@wcc-coe.org (Link:
dov@wcc-coe.org ); these hard copies are free of charge, but there will be
a charge for shipping quantities of more than 25.
The DOV would welcome offers to translate the study guide into additional
languages. Such translations would then be posted on the website.
The new study guide is a follow-up to the widely used DOV publication
“Why Violence? Why Not Peace? (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=88f51da7ccb6df1d0273 )” which has
been translated into 16 languages.
Study guide “Telling the Truth About Ourselves and Our World�� �
(Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=790c8a15a1fa544a1544
) (pdf, 1.1 MB)
Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=423e428381ae919ae1c0 )
International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=e9230e2ce001ca6224c2 )
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 Olav Fykse Tveit, from
the [Lutheran] Church of Norway. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
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