Sentences with phrase «for abolishing war»

He is author of Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace and editor of Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War.

Not exact matches

Its architects thought abolishing barriers to commerce and national boundaries could ensure Europe avoided the disastrous wars that it had been fighting, not just in the 20th century but for pretty much all of recorded history.

If it so happens that ten or twenty or fifty years from now all nuclear weapons have been abolished, a few of the persons who grow up in that post-nuclear era may read this essay at some point in their lives and glean from it a feeling for what it was like to live under the threat of global nuclear war.

For most of its history the energies of the church have been focused, not on how to abolish war, but on how to go to war justly (jus ad bellum) and how to fight a war in a just manner (jus in bello).

I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety.

In a booklet I picked up at the supermarket titled «All New Prophecies for the Millennium,» Ernesto Montgomery predicts that the next 1,000 years will be an era of peace, happiness and prosperity when nations abolish war and new medicines enhance longevity.

Ousted White House strategist Stephen Bannon said he would have advised President Trump to abolish all protections for young undocumented immigrants to avoid the «civil war» — and potential loss of the House next year — he predicts will follow in the GOP.

There will be intra-party wars for seats; margins will shift for and against incumbents; and some will be left treading water until their seats are abolished.

Aptly named 13th, for the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, this documentary follows the aftermath of the American Civil War for African Americans, and how slavery has only been perpetuated by different practices throughout the years like disenfranchisement and mass incarceration.

He had just been re-elected and is trying to abolish slavery for good, while seeing an end for the Civil War.

Summary: The Civil War rages on as America's president battles with the House of Representatives for the passage of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.

Heffermehl's interpretation is that «Nobel did not establish a prize for «peace» in whatever guise, but a prize for work for peace in certain ways and certain fields» [emphasis in the original]; he created a prize for those who worked in certain ways to abolish the military and, so, to stop war.

Washington DC About Blog Citizens for Global Solutions members envision a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone.