Overcoming Violence: WCC Statements and Actions 1994-2000 (WCC, 2000, 130 p.)

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Preface

Foreword - Rev. Dr. Konrad Raiser, WCC General Secretary

The World Council of Churches: An Introduction

Documents from 1994

Overcoming the Spirit, Logic and Practice of War - Background Document Prepared for the WCC Central Committee, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-28 January 1994

Recommendations of the WCC Central Committee, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-28 January 1994

Programme to Overcome Violence: Assumptions and Principles - Adopted by the Board of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, Kitwe, Zambia, 25-30 June 1994

Documents from 1995

Recommendations of the WCC Central Committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 14-22 September 1995

Documents from 1996

Note on the Contemporary Role of the Church in International Affairs - WCC Central Committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 12-20 September 1996

Recommendations of the WCC Central Committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 12-20 September 1996

Documents from 1999

Excerpt from Together on the Way: Official Report of the Eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Harare, Zimbabwe, 3-14 December 1998

The Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace* (2001-2010) - Message of the WCC Central Committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 26 August-3 September 1999

A Basic Framework for the Decade to Overcome Violence - Working Document of the WCC Central Committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 26 August-3 September 1999

Reports of the Programme to Overcome Violence

Report of the Consultation on the Programme to Overcome Violence, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13-18 April 1996

Final Documents: Programme to Overcome Violence Consultations

Theological Perspectives on Violence and Non-Violence - Boston, USA, 30 March-3 April 1998

Small Arms: Big Impact, Consultation on Microdisarmament - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 1998

Peace to the City: A Global Initiative of the WCC

Dreaming the Decade to Overcome Violence - Final Report of the Peace to the City Core Group, Stuttgart, Germany, 15-16 June 1999

Addresses of the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Dr. Konrad Raiser

Peace on Earth: New Visions and New Praxis - Consultation on Non-Violent Approaches to Conflict Resolution, Corrymeela, Northern Ireland, 2 June 1994

1997 Christmas Message By Rev. Dr. Konrad Raiser, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches

Excerpt of the 1999 Report of the General Secretary to the WCC Central Committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 26 August-3 September 1999

2000 Christmas Message By Rev. Dr. Konrad Raiser, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches