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UK - The ministry for peace campaign group have produced a Manifesto for Peace urging the government to respond to the growing grassroots call for nonviolent means of resolving conflict and for the development of a culture of peace. With the aim of bringing about a less violent Britain and a less violent world, the ministry for peace campaigns for the investment of human and financial resources to vanquish violence. Its Manifesto further develops the ministry's campaign towards the establishment of a dedicated Ministry of Peace with its own Cabinet Minister specifically devoted to the creation of a culture of peace.
The Manifesto also identifies three recognised, related aspects of violence: direct, structural - which refers to all political, social and economic structures that repress, harm or kill like global poverty, dictatorships or racial discrimination - and cultural, the aspects of a culture that normalise violence.
On 15th June, Kai Frithof Brand-Jacobsen will speak at the ministry for peace's meeting on the theme of Transforming Violent Conflicts, Preventing War, Building Peace: what can be done by people and governments today. Kai is the founder and Director of Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania and the Co-Director of Transcend, a network of nearly 300 of the world's leading practitioners and scholars in peacebuilding from more than 80 world countries. Committed to the promotion of peace by peaceful means, Transcend has 20 active programmes worldwide and has provided over 500 training programmes for more than 10,000 participants in 50 countries.
To download their Manifesto: www.ministryforpeace.org.uk
Transcend Website: www.transcend.org
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The Manifesto also identifies three recognised, related aspects of violence: direct, structural - which refers to all political, social and economic structures that repress, harm or kill like global poverty, dictatorships or racial discrimination - and cultural, the aspects of a culture that normalise violence.
On 15th June, Kai Frithof Brand-Jacobsen will speak at the ministry for peace's meeting on the theme of Transforming Violent Conflicts, Preventing War, Building Peace: what can be done by people and governments today. Kai is the founder and Director of Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania and the Co-Director of Transcend, a network of nearly 300 of the world's leading practitioners and scholars in peacebuilding from more than 80 world countries. Committed to the promotion of peace by peaceful means, Transcend has 20 active programmes worldwide and has provided over 500 training programmes for more than 10,000 participants in 50 countries.
To download their Manifesto: www.ministryforpeace.org.uk
Transcend Website: www.transcend.org
Story from Positive News UK
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