Sentences with phrase «for civil peace»

What would privileging the «Judeo - Christian tradition» mean for civil peace today, when the profound disputes are within the faiths that make it up, not between them and the secular world?

We must at least add the desire for civil peace to the two desires, curiosity and control, that Palmer has identified as the motives for objectivism.

Not exact matches

The utility says the two spillways alone are 17 - storeys high and five highway - lanes wide, making the contract the project's second - largest, just under the $ 1.75 billion contract inked in 2015 with Peace River Hydro Partners for the dam's foundation and other civil works.

Contrary to the international community's preference for prosecution, other conflicts teach the lesson that replacing dictatorships and civil wars with democracy and a stable peace sometimes requires compromising with dictators and war criminals.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.»

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

Clergy were scarcely perceived as nondirective listeners as they joined the movements for civil rights and peace, or the war on poverty.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

We send our sons and daughters to suit up for armed services to defend the U. S. of A. or other defenseless countries from the influences and ravages of moral depravity (wickedness); or our civil authorities who, by God's design, arm themselves daily to keep order and peace, to avenge and bring retribution to wrongdoers (Rom.

He was not afraid to say that «the hundred missionary societies in China today are as suicidal for Christianity as the civil divisions are to the national peace and prosperity.»

Here we suggest that the notion of Covenant Solidarity for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation has been an excellent starting point of departure to reflect upon ONE in the context of civil society.

Last week in Rome, scholars — gathered by the University of Notre Dame's Center for Civil and Human Rights and the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs — presented their findings at the Under Caesar's Sword conference.

A country that was founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all will remember how justice was too long denied to African - Americans, how the civil rights movement made clear that separate is not equal, and how King's dream of all people living together in peace was «deeply rooted in the American dream.»

(Pictured: Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian mother of six who won the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which mobilized both Christian and Muslim women to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, protests, sit - ins, diplomacy, and sex strikes.

The 21 - year - old, captured the real - life heroism of the Nobel Peace Prize - nominated group known for their white rescue helmets, as they dig out survivors from bombings in Syria's on - going civil war.

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Now, of course there are good people in the world, and there were good ones in the days of old as well, but as a civilization we have not shown the peace for which this word «civil» is suppose to stand for, maybe for some, but not to all as what YHWH wants for us as a human race.

Singled out for special attack was the National Council of Churches because of its concern for international justice, for peace, and for civil rights.

How was it possible for 40 million South Africans to avoid a disastrous civil war and create a new society that raised the hope for peace among long - alienated peoples?

In the recent book, Civil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual &laCivil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual &lacivil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual «1

Two books on South African apartheid show how it was possible for 40 million South Africans to avoid a disastrous civil war and create a new society that raised the hope for peace among long - alienated peoples.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

The polarization has been created, of course, by those who for thirty years have been bent upon overthrowing the laws and tacit understandings that made for relative civil peace.

Civil rights activists had to sometimes disturb the peace in an effort to make room for real peace.

It was not to be found in the overtly public (dare I say American) ministry of marching for civil rights and peace, or in his commentaries and books on public culture; but rather it was the interpersonal, interior expeditions of a shared faith (a quintessential Canadian attribute born out of long, cold winters spent indoors).

So in 2002 she organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which sought to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, silent protests, and (perhaps most effectively) a sex strike.

Finally, after her country endured a decade of civil war that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, and with the help of Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, Johnson - Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.

The four prominent civil society organizations, known as the Quartet, were awarded the Nobel peace prize in October 2015 for their role in negotiating the constitutional bargain.

While LRA leader Joseph Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, Ugandan civil society actors and peace activists were skeptical of the U.S. troop deployment to the country.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and is an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

CSBHROs is comprised of Emeka Umeagbalasi of International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety); Aloysius Attah Anambra State Branch of the Civil Liberties Organization, CLO; Peter Onyegiri of Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy, CHRPA; Samuel Njoku of Human Rights Club, HRC, (a project of LRRDC); Justus Ijeoma, of Forum for Justice, Equity and Defense of Human Rights, FJEDHR; Chike Umeh of Society Advocacy Watch Project, SPAW; Obianuju Igboeli of Anambra Human Rights Forum, AHRF; Alex Olisa of Southeast Good Governance Forum, SGGF; Jerry Chukwuokolo of International Solidarity for Peace & Human Rights Initiative, ITERSOLIDARITY; Evlyn Eze of Street Law Africa, LawAfrica, and Tochukwu Ezeoke of Igbo Ekunie Initiative (pan Igbo rights advocacy group)

On the day the city celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leaders in southeast Queens urged residents and law enforcement agencies to continue the civil rights leader's work for peace by getting guns off the streets.

«We call on the various Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), National Peace Council, the CODEO and the international community «to take steps to reverse these disturbing trends so that we can have proper free and fair elections in the future since free and fair elections for 7th December 2016 have escaped us.»

By Jibrin Ibrahim Yesterday, the Working Group on Peace Building and Good Governance, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), the Centre for Democracy and...

1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.

Liberia's police and army are overseeing election security for the first time since the civil war following a handover from UN peacekeepers last year, and though underfunded have kept the peace during the campaign.

Grijalva received a 100 percent score from Americans for Democratic Action, Peace Action, the League of Conservation Voters, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Arab American Institute, and several other notable groups in recent years.

From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO in the 1930s - 40s, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1950s,»60s and»70s to the struggles that have given us the «new» labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movements for a progressive, people's agenda — the 99 % — People's World and Mundo Popular have been there.

Veterans for Peace, Ventura County CA: Green leader Howie Hawkins Arrested in Veterans - led Civil Disobedience Action at Seneca Lake

Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice.

One Nation Working Together is a broad coalition of movements for peace and justice that is coming together to march for: Jobs and Sustainable Economic Recovery, Funding of Community Needs Not Militarism, Civil Rights and a Renewable Energy Future.

Inside the church, Espada, whose office helped organize the rally (and who walked behind a massive banner with his and King's faces on), took the mic to praise the civil rights leader and ask that youngsters there sign a «Resolution for Peace and Nonviolence.»

Civil society organization called Peace Seekers International has called for a Presidential inquiry into the five missing babies at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.

In the new trailer for Marvel's Black Panther, released on Monday, the internal struggle brewing within the kingdom of Wakanda will take center stage as the warrior - king T'Challa fights to maintain peace and prevent devastating civil war.

civil - society media in several EUROMED countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Germany) are willing to share and distribute kids - created media content for peace

Like many other actors working for Peace, Radijojo is a grassroots civil society - driven organisation; a small social system that can «objectively «be described in workflows, mission statements and financial reports.

In the international arena of civil society action, Former senator Heherson Alvarez founded the EarthSavers (honored as Unesco Artist for Peace) and is the first Asian chairman of the Climate Institute Advisory Board and a founding trustee of the Ocean Security International expanded as a South - South Cooperation Council.

The signed peace agreement for Darfur is conducive environment for participation of all segments of the community to build the peace process which intend need strengthening of civil society and to empower women to establish peace forums, rebuild confidence, and give -LSB-...]

Titled «Creating a Regional Framework for Prosperity and Peace through Public - Private Cooperation», the 2015 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa bring together more than 800 key government, business, and civil society leaders from the region and beyond, to support a comprehensive and forward - looking vision for prosperity and pPeace through Public - Private Cooperation», the 2015 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa bring together more than 800 key government, business, and civil society leaders from the region and beyond, to support a comprehensive and forward - looking vision for prosperity and peacepeace.