PAX CHRISTI FUND FOR PEACE
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Mission Statement
The Pax Christi International Fund for Peace is a nonprofit tax-exempt 501c3 organization incorporated in the District of Columbia to promote around the world peace and reconciliation, freedom and respect for human rights, as well as the political and social responsibility of individuals and communities. Central to the mission of Pax Christi International and the Pax Christi Fund for Peace are efforts to foster a culture of active nonviolence; to insert moral and ethical principles on issues of war and peace into the public and political arenas, and to promote action for peace and justice. The primary goals of the Pax Christi International Fund for Peace − to contribute to the prevention, demilitarization, and resolution of conflicts; to strengthen human rights, democracy and international law; to promote active nonviolence; and to build peace − are met through the work of Pax Christi International and its member organizations around the world.
About This Cause
Pax Christi International is a Catholic peace movement with 120 member organisations worldwide that promotes peace, respect for human rights, social justice and reconciliation throughout the world. Grounded in the belief that peace is possible and that vicious cycles of violence and injustice can be broken, Pax Christi International addresses the root causes and destructive consequences of violent conflict and war, working in local contexts as well as in national, regional and global arenas. For example, Since 2011, Pax Christi International has been promoting active nonviolence and pro-active citizenship in response to community conflicts associated with extractive projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. After successfully empowering communities in Peru, Colombia and Guatemala, Pax Christi International organised partners and communityes in Mexico, Chile and Paraguay. Communities were empowered through a series of trainings in nonviolent conflict transformation and legal mechanisms to respond to the impact of extractive industries on local communities. A series of new resources on nonviolent strategies and the development of advocacy plans at the local, national and global levels have been created and promulgated to support this effort. This project is focused on demanding an alternative development model, related to economic, social, cultural and environmental rights, and is based on the concept of Sumak Kawsay (good living), to live in an environment of peace and harmony in the world. In 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Pax Christi International, along with the Denis Hurley Peace Ins tute, facilitated a conference gathering representa ves of its African member organisa ons to explore the theme, “Nonviolence in Africa: Creating a Future of Hope”. Participants from South Africa, South Sudan, Mali, Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Cameroon, as well as the USA, Netherlands and Belgium, reflected on African approaches to nonviolence, trained parti- cipants on the work of peace advocacy and peace building tools, and, most importantly, recommended a structure of sub-regional Pax Christi networks for Africa as the most appropriate one for direct and effective collaboration among Pax Christi Africa members. Participants agreed to adopt active nonviolence as a shared strategy for the Pax Christi International network and identified training in active nonviolence as an essential method that brings about change. One of the four core means of engagement of Pax Chris International is to represent the global movement on the international stage through advocacy work on themes of peace, human rights, justice and disarmament. A key role of Pax Christi International is to be a Catholic voice on international affairs and to be an advocate at intergovernmental levels. Our capacity to influence global policy is amplified by our access to intergovernmental policy-making forums: • Pax Christi International has held special consultative status with the United Nations since 1979 in New York, Geneva and Vienna, as well as with UNESCO in Paris; • Pax Christi International is offcially represented at the African Union in Addis Ababa; • Pax Chris International collaborates with member organisations in the USA to advocate on international issues in Washington, DC; • Pax Chris International participates in meeting of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg; • Pax Christi International has contacts with the institutions of the EU in Brussels. In accordance with the outcomes of the World Assembly in 2015, the Interna onal Secretariat carried out an assessment in the second of half of 2016 to review and strengthen the movement’s capacity for international advocacy. In the fall of 2016, Pax Christi International launched the “Young Peace Journalists” project to train and empower youth to conduct interviews with people who have had to ee their home countries. Participants were instructed in how to actively listen to the stories of refugees, how to develop a thorough and compassionate understanding of their situation, how to craft and format their interviews, and how to share and promote the interviews online to raise awareness of the plight of people seeking refuge. The Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International, reaffrms the centrality of active nonviolence to the vision and message of Jesus, to the life of the Catholic Church, and to the long-term vocation of healing and reconciling both people and the planet. This bold effort was launched at the Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference held in Rome, 11-13 April, 2016 and co-sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Lay people, theologians, members of religious congrega ons, priests and bishops from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania gathered to call on the Catholic Church to take a clear stand for active nonviolence and against all forms of violence.