Pax Christi International

Pax Christi International is a non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues in the fields of human rights, human security, disarmament and demilitarisation, just world order, and religion and violent conflict. Pax Christi International was started in 1945 as an organisation of Catholics in Europe who wanted to promote reconciliation at the end of the Second World War.

Pax Christi International is made up of more than 100 Member Organisations, affiliated, local groups and partners spread over 50 countries and 5 continents. Most of the regular work at the international level is done through regional and continental consultations and special sessions on specific issues.

Pax Christi International’s governing bodies include a World Assembly, an Executive Committee with an International Co-Presidency, currently held by Msgr. Kevin Dowling and Marie Dennis. The day-to-day operations are carried out by the Secretariat’s office inBrussels.

Representation and advocacy are integral to Pax Christi International’™s work. Pax Christi International is recognised and has representation status at the United Nations in New York, Geneva and Vienna, UNESCO in Paris, the African Union in Addis Ababa and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.

Recent Work:

– Publication of various advocacy pacakges on nuclear disarmament, missile defence shield, arms trade treaty, and human rights mechanism;

– Triennial World Assembly was held in Strasbourg in 2010 and included more than 120 delegates from around the world;

– Completion of re-integration project of ex-combatants in Great Lakes region of Africa;

– Workshop on nonviolence and peace spirituality in different Latin American & Caribbean countries;

– Regional consultation for the Middle East in Amman, Jordan.

Instituto Latinoamericano para la Paz y la Ciudadanía, ILAPyC

Instituto Latinoamericano para la Paz y la Ciudadanía

Acerca de: ILAPyC es un instrumento para la investigación, capacitación, difusión y promoción de acciones que impulsan la Cultura de Paz y la Construcción de Ciudadanía entendiéndolas como opción frente a la violencia intrafamiliar, de género, la discriminación laboral, el acoso escolar y toda forma de violencia que impacte cotidianamente en la sociedad, haciendo nuestras vidas más difíciles. Buscando el camino de transformar a los habitantes de nuestra región y el mundo en ciudadanos portadores de derechos   de manera irrestricta.        Desde el concepto que refiere a la construcción de ciudadanía como un proceso a través del cual los individuos se van apropiando de conocimientos indispensables para el uso responsable de la ciudadanía que tenga como objetivo final, una sociedad amigable y un modelo de relación humana dentro de los parámetros de la Cultura de Paz.

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Latin American Institute for Peace and Citizenship

About: ILAPyC is an instrument for research, training, dissemination and promotion of actions that promote the Culture of Peace and the Construction of Citizenship understanding them as an option against domestic violence, gender violence, labor discrimination, bullying and all forms of violence that impact daily in society, making our lives more difficult. Seeking the path of transforming the inhabitants of our region and the world into unrestricted rights-bearing citizens. From the concept that refers to the construction of citizenship as a process through which individuals are appropriating indispensable knowledge for the responsible use of citizenship that has as its ultimate goal, a friendly society and a model of human relationship within the parameters of the Culture of Peace.

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International Network of Museums for Peace

The International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) is a worldwide network of peace museums, peace gardens and other peace related sites, centres and institutions that share in the same desire to build a global culture of peace. The International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) is a non-profit organisation, established since 1992 and associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information in New York, that aims to build a global culture of peace by strengthening the work of museums for peace.