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Peace in Action CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE THE ARMS TRADE NUCLEAR WEAPONS PALESTINE AND ISRAEL Key facts Key facts Key facts "The great task ahead for the twenty-first century is to move the world from a culture of violence and war to a culture of peace…” • While many countries face financial crisis and economic • Nuclear weapons were first used in 1945 on Hiroshima and • During the 1948 and 1967 wars, hundreds of thousands (Archbishop Martino, United Nations, 1998) recession, military expenditure, arms production or arms Nagasaki in Japan. People close to the centre were reduced of Palestinians left, or were forced out of, their homes. transfers are untouched. World military expenditure in to shadows - even their bones burnt. The radiation caused Over four million Palestinians are now refugees. 2009 was £960 billion (£918 billion in 2008) (SIPRI cancer and birth defects in future generations. Israel has illegally occupied Palestine since 1967. Key facts Yearbook 2010) • 27 young people were killed in London between January • Britain's independent nuclear weapons system, Trident, • Between September 2000 2009 and July 2010. Nineteen of these were victims of • Britain is the fourth largest military spender in the world. is to be replaced at a cost estimated by Greenpeace to and May 2010 1063 Israelis knife crime. (Guardian) (SIPRI Yearbook 2010) reach £97 billion in total. and 7044 Palestinians were killed in the ongoing violence Pax Christi believes that it is wrong to sell weapons because Pax Christi believes • In 2008/9 the UK spent £42.6 billion on defence in Israel/Palestine life is sacred and weapons fuel more wars and conflict. Britain is that nuclear weapons are compared to £7.2 billion on overseas aid (MOD / DfID) (www.btselem.org) sowing the seeds of war around the world by exporting weapons . illegal and immoral. Their PAX CHRISTI • 31% of all young people have suffered from bullying by use can never be morally • In June 2002 Israel began What do we do? their peers. One in 5 (20%) have been bullied or justified due to the scale of building its separation wall, PEACE IN ACTION threatened online (NSPCC) • Pax Christi members raise destruction they would mostly on Palestinian land, Peace graffiti on the Pax Christi believes that violence and war are not inevitable. public awareness about the cause. Pax Christi rejects dividing Palestinians from their separation wall. Education for peace can give us the skills and understanding arms trade and its impact on the argument that nuclear land, work places and schools. the world and the poorest weapons prevent war, to respond to conflict creatively, make sense of what is Pax Christi believes that many of the conflicts in the happening in our world and take positive action for peace. countries in particular. believing that their School students at the Ash world today are fuelled by the situation in Israel-Palestine. International continued existence is a What do we do? • Pax Christi encourages people Wednesday service outside the Finding a peaceful solution, based on justice, is essential Ministry of Defence in London. major threat to our security. Catholic Pax Christi visits dozens to look at their investments to to combating terrorism. ensure that churches, local of schools, universities What do we do? What do we do? Movement and youth projects authorities, pension funds etc • Pax Christi campaigns against the renewal of Trident by for Peace every year to run peace do not invest in arms companies • Pax Christi supports organisations in Palestine-Israel organising seminars for church leaders, and asking education days, retreats working for peace and justice. Members send peace • Pax Christi members join members to lobby Members of Parliament. and workshops. It also protests against the Defence messages to the people of Bethlehem each Christmas. organises local, national & Security Organisation which • Pax Christi organises a service and actions each year on • Pax Christi supports EAPPI (Ecumenical Accompaniment and international helps companies sell weapons, Ash Wednesday outside the Ministry of Defence. Programme in Palestine and Israel), which sends people gatherings of young and against arms fairs and • Pax Christi encourages people around the country to to accompany peace activists and peace groups. A group of young people from across peacemakers. shows that take place around mark the anniversaries of the bombing of Hiroshima and • Pax Christi ran a postcard campaign against the Europe enjoy an international event for the country. young peacemakers in Brussels Nagasaki, as a way of raising awareness of the horrible separation wall between Israel and Palestine. effects of nuclear weapons. Action: Have a look at these websites to find out Action: Do you think walls and barriers make peace? Write Action: Have you been working for peace? Send your story and photos to Pax more about the arms trade and what you can do: Action: Write to your MP or the Prime Minister to tell them to the Foreign Secretary to ask what our government is doing Christi and we will tell the world via our website www.paxchristi.org.uk www.caat.org.uk www.controlarms.org what you think about nuclear weapons. www.writetothem.com to build peace between Israel and Palestine. 5 6 7 8 THE BEGINNINGS VISION AND VALUES WHY DO PEOPLE JOIN OUR FAITH PEACE IN ACTION PAX CHRISTI? Pax Christi was founded in 1945 by Catholic Christians Our vision is of a world where people can live in peace, Pax Christi is inspired by Catholic Christianity but membership in France to promote reconciliation with the German without fear of violence in any form. is open to all people who share our values and work. people after the Second World War. People join Pax Christi because they believe that Christians should work towards an end to war and violence and find better ways of resolving conflicts. Many members draw strength and encouragement from People wanted to build a more PEACE the bible and the teachings of the Catholic Church. peaceful Europe by making contact Many Pax Christi members are pacifists, and reject any with others from countries once at Pax Christi believes in peace based on justice. Peace is not only the absence of violence and war, but a world where use of violence. Other Pax Christi members follow the “Movements like yours are war, through visits and walking precious. They help draw people’s just war teaching which sets out a series of moral “Seek peace, human rights are respected, basic needs for food, water attention to the violence which shatters the together on Pax Christi peace walks. and pursue it.” and shelter are met, and people feel safe and valued in principles that must be strictly observed to limit the harmony between human beings which is (Psalm 34:14) their schools, families and communities. damage of war. The just war theory states that war at the heart of creation (…).” should only ever be a last resort. Most modern wars do Pope John Paul II, speaking about In 1952 young people took part in a not meet the just war criteria because of the number of Pax Christi International Pax Christi peace walk from Assisi “My friends, what good is civilian casualties. it for someone to say they to Rome, where they met with the “To me peace means “Happy are those who have faith if their actions Pope who gave official recognition people compromising and work for peace; God will do not prove it?” to Pax Christi’s work. listening to one another call them his children!” (James 2:14) so that they can live (Matthew 5:9) together peacefully” Marthe Dortel-Claudot began Emma 14. a campaign of prayer for the reconciliation of France and REFLECTION – ACTION Germany after the Second World War. This was the In what ways can you help build peace in your family, school or community? start of Pax Christi. NONVIOLENCE 1. Do you know people who are affected by violence? How might you help or Inspired by their Nonviolence involves a choice about the way we live our support them? Do you know where else they might turn for help? experience on the lives. Living nonviolently involves choices and actions that: 2. How can you raise awareness of conflict and violence locally and globally? A guide to the vision and work of Pax Christi • respect the lives of others and the whole of creation. peace walks, in 1958 a 3. Does your school have a peer mentoring or anti-bullying programme which you International Catholic Movement for Peace group of young people • challenge what is not fair or just. could become involved in? set up a Pax Christi • offer alternatives to violence and war. 4. Peace Sunday is held each year in January. Does your parish celebrate this? group in London. Today we have organisations like the United Nations and Christian Peace Education Centre 5. Consider joining Pax Christi and, through your membership, support peacemaking St Joseph's, Watford Way, Hendon, London NW4 4TY RECONCILIATION international courts of law to help resolve disputes work in UK and throughout the world. PAX Tel: 020 8203 4884 The process of reconciliation starts when people try to without resorting to war. War creates more conflicts Fax: 020 8203 5234 6. You might think about forming a Pax Christi group in your school, college, parish CHRISTI Email: [email protected] Today, Pax Christi is truly international, mend relationships which have been damaged in some way, which can lead to further violence. War is also costly. or university in order to work together for peace. Contact Pax Christi for support International Catholic Movement for Peace www.paxchristi.org.uk with more than eighty Pax Christi organisations in doing this.
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