Decade to Overcome Violence
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- Date
- 2001 July 4-11
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Act 24
- Mover
- Bishop Barry Jenks
- Seconder
- Mrs. Phyllis Creighton
- Text of motion
- BE IT RESOLVED: That this General Synod:
- 1. Reaffirm the decision of the Council of General Synod in May 2000, formally to support the World Council of Churches' `Ecumenical Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace 2001-2010'
- 2. Work with partners in Canada and around the world to take up the call of the Decade to:
- - Be and build communities of peace in diversity;
- - Repent together for our complicity in violence;
- - Analyse different forms of violence and their interconnection;
- - Engage in theological reflection to overcome the spirit, logic and practice of violence;
- - Embrace creative approaches to peace-building within the Christian tradition, local communities, secular movements, and other living faiths;
- - Stand alongside victims of violence and to seek to empower those people who are systematically oppressed by violence;
- - Act in solidarity with those who struggle for justice, peace and the integrity of creation. (from the Call of the Decade)
- 3. Promote a culture of non-violence that values love, compassion, and justice, and that rejects violence as a means of solving problems, and join with the Episcopal Church in the USA and other faith communities in observing the United Nations' Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-10).
- 4. Encourage dioceses and parishes to engage in learning and action throughout the decade on issues identified by the Council of General Synod in May 2000, and on other issues of war, peace-building, and nonviolence as they arise, with the assistance of the EcoJustice Committee, the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, and ecumenical organizations such as Project Ploughshares and Kairos - the Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiative. CARRIED Act 24
- Subjects
- Decade to Overcome Violence (2001-2010) - Anglican Church of Canada
- Decade to Overcome Violence (2001-2010) - World Council of Churches
- Violence - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Nonviolence - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada