Military Peace Makers

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Military Peace Makers

Between the profession of war and the horizon of peace, the military institution has played a central role.

Its function, its traditions and the very principles of its life - sometimes refered to as values - as well as the technical imperatives of its mission interact with all of national and international life.

Thinking through the complexity of today's world requires a reflection of the military themselves about the way force has been or should be used at the service of right, in order to contribute efficiently to the construction of peace.

Below is the list of all the workgroup's referred Web sites

The 2nd Stage of the Europe - Central Asia - Dialogue is imminent
:: Manfred Rosenberger:: Armed Forces, Peace and Democracy :: 8 October 2008
Building a relationship between the military and civilians that can lay the foundations of durable peace is a crucial challenge of our era. The aggravation of conflicts since the beginning of this century (from Irak to Georgia...) makes this challenge seem utopian. Peoples are being struck by (...)

Visit to the French Armed Forces
:: Manfred Rosenberger:: Armed Forces, Peace and Democracy :: 19 September 2008
In October 2007, Ms. Claire Marienfeld-Czesla, president of the Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik Wehr-und eV (GfW) and Mr Jaques Sonnet, chairman of CiDAN have signed at Bad Godesberg near Bonn in Germany a bilateral agreement on deepening cooperation between the two associations and the (...)

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Forward! The army and the construction of peace
:: Richard Pétris :: Hugues de Courtivron :: November 2005 ::

The end of the military order is now placed in the long-term in the path to democracy of our societies, of all our societies. It is not about a beatific vision of a dreamed evolution, but of a reality based on a slow construction that we must constantly encourage: to create the conditions of a security that doesn't only depend on an imposed force but rather on the permanent search of a balance between the different actors of a group of which the ultimate aspiration, whatever we say, rather aims at an appeasement of the social relations and the public life. We have just done the (...)

International Meeting: Military, Peace and Democracy
:: Lucía Sepúlveda Ruiz :: November 2005 ::

Redefining the role, the education and the ethics of the military forces in a democratic perspective in the context of a world marked by the end of the frontieres and of the nation-state is part of the tasks assumed by military from three continents, who coordinated the Meeting of Professionals of the Army for Peace and Democracy, carried out from October 6 to 10, in Santiago de Chile. Active and retired military of Europe, Asia and America - including former political prisoners of the Chilean, Argentine and Uruguayan armies -, as well as consultants of the current governmental army from (...)

Building Institutions for Peaceful Change
:: Cora Weiss :: November 2004 ::

Nation states have failed in building institutions to promote peaceful change. They have failed to keep the peace. They have failed to eliminate the root causes of war. Military and economic dominance have fueled resentments which contribute to violence. War as an institution, protected by international laws, has proven a hopeless method to correct social and economic inequities. We believe the world needs a new social contract. A contract that puts women equally at all tables where the fate of humanity is at stake; a contract that insists that reading, writing and arithmetic are no (...)

Aloha! Anti-nuclear activism with flowers
:: Siddhartha :: June 2001 ::

This article is extracted from the Journal Butterfly Futures of the Asia-Pacific entity of the Alliance for a Responsible, plural and United World. It is an article from Siddhartha about one of his friend Jim Albertini. Jim Albertini is an avid believer in Gandhian ideas. He lives in Hawaii where he is known for his passion to keep the Pacific nuclear free. He served a long prison sentence for jumping into the sea and attempting a 'naval blocade' of the U.S.S. Ouellette, a nuclear-armed guided missile destroyer, when it entered Hilo Bay. Siddhartha last met Jim in Paris in 1985. Jim was (...)

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