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World Peace Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It has been alleged to be a front organization of Communist parties due to its advocacy of unilateral disarmament in western countries and the active participation and funding of the council by the Soviet bloc as well as the leading role taken in the WPC by Communists such as Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the WPC's founding president. It was involved in many demonstrations and protests from the late 1940s to the late 1980s and attempted to lead the peace movement though it was largely sidelined beginning in the 1960s by the New Left which distrusted the Soviet Union and its supporters in the "old left". In May 2004, the Council held its world congress in Athens attended by representatives of 100 peace groups from around the world. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Peace_Council   (426 words)

[No title] In 1997 the Ukrainian Peace Council was headed by the first President of the independent Ukraine, Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk, the person, who initiated the state non-nuclear movement, as an example of  peacemaking, healthy social psychology, directed to the establishment of peace, which is a model for other countries. During the years of its functioning, the Ukrainian Peace Council has become world-renowned and was numerously honored with the highest awards of the World Peace Council, the UNESCO, the United Nations Organization, and other prominent world organizations. The main aim of the organization is to unite the efforts of the community to establish peace and consent in Ukraine and beyond. www.peacecouncil.org.ua /engl/index.html   (340 words)

C. Jagan - Opposition Leader It was in this atmosphere that the World Peace Movement was born. Peace was then regarded as subversive, and peaceful coexistence, the cornerstone of the World Peace Council, as the "Trojan horse" of international communism to lull the "vigilance" of capitalist states. Anniversary, the World Peace Council must redouble its efforts and strengthen world unity of all anti-imperialist forces – the Socialist World, the national liberation movements and the progressive working class and peace fighter of the Capitalist world. www.jagan.org /articles5a.htm   (3340 words)

HISTORY: Dr Jim Cairns, the Kremlin and the World Peace Council - 15 November 2003 In 1958, the World Peace Council was condemned by British philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell for its refusal to denounce the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and the kidnapping and murder of Hungarian PM, Imre Nagy (New York Times, July 10, 1958). In later years, the WPC supported the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968), the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979), and the 1981 Soviet-backed imposition of martial law in Poland and the crushing of Poland's 10-million strong independent trade union, Solidarity. This was clearly evident on WPC official letterhead stationery from 1974, on which Cairns is named both as President of the Committee of World Peace Councillors in Australia and as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2003nov15_p.html   (1563 words)

Political Affairs Magazine - Canadian Peace Congress Reconstituted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The Canadian Peace Congress, a founding member of the World Peace Council, (WPC) was formally re-established and re-organized at a Conference in Edmonton on April 8, 2006. Delegates discussed Peace Congress support for the concentration tasks of the World Peace Council, namely the struggle for nuclear disarmament, the abolition of foreign military bases, resisting the imperialist attacks on the UN Charter and to promote international solidarity with global anti-imperialist struggles. The World Peace Forum is a global peace gathering with participation of more than 175 Canadian and international peace groups, religious groups, trade unions and peace personalities from all continents representing a broad spectrum of movements for global peace and justice. www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/3425/1/167   (1274 words)

World & I — Innovative Approches to Peace The presence of peace in the midst of conflict is important, and this initiative brings that. The peace process has so many dimensions to it and we are dealing mainly for quite many years with one dimension within the peace process, which is the political dimension. The peace process now is stumbling, so we have to have a lot of courage and a lot of keen ideas about the peace. www.worldandi.net /voices.html   (1644 words)

International Committee for the Peace Council: Women, Globalization, and Religion The discrimination against women by many world religions, as they are practiced, is obvious; but religions are increasingly aware of their need to improve gender equity — in society, in the family and within their own communities. Both conferences concluded with strong declarations – the consensus of some of the world’s ethical and religious leaders – that proved to be influential in combating fundamentalists’ attacks on the draft ICPD Programme of Action as immoral or anti-religious. In a world where religion too often is used to justify division, hatred, and violence, the Peace Councilors offer an alternative: the example of leaders from different religious communities working together in practical ways to relieve suffering and to make the world whole. www.peacecouncil.org /wgr.html   (2179 words)

The World Council of Religious Leaders The formation of the World Council of Religious Leaders was one of the stated goals of the Millennium World Peace Summit. The objective of this Council is to serve as a resource to the United Nations and its agencies around the world, nation states and other international organizations, offering the collective wisdom and resources of the faith traditions toward the resolution of critical global problems. The World Council will encourage the religious traditions and the United Nations to work in closer cooperation in building a community of the world's religions to work for the benefit of the global family. www.millenniumpeacesummit.com   (416 words)

World peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia World peace is a future ideal of freedom, peace, and happiness among and within all nations. World peace is often claimed to be the inevitable result of some political ideology. The plausibility of world peace tacitly relies on the assumption of rational agents that base their decisions on future consequences, which is not self-evident. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_peace   (1314 words)

peacemaking This is a history of the peace movement seen from the viewpoint of a peace activist, involved in the international peace movement. The peace societies were part of a liberal movement for political reform that aimed for human rights, social improvements, free trade, the abolition of slavery and an end to the waging of war. World Peace Congresses were held in Brussels in 1848, in Paris in 1849, Frankfurt in 1850, London in 1851, Manchester in 1852 and Edinburgh in 1853. santibox.ch /Peace/Peacemaking.html   (17691 words)

World Peace Council condemns Yugoslav bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Brian Miller, the National Secretary of the Australian Peace Committee attended the Asian-Pacific regional meeting of the World Peace Council held in Hanoi (Vietnam) towards the end of March. The Vietnam Peace Committee called for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons and other means of mass destruction, a total ban on tests of nuclear weapons, a ban on Hi-tech conventional weapons, demilitarisation of oceans and space, the withdrawal of foreign military bases and forces the an end to military alliances. The Peace Committee said that it was necessary to settle conflicts by peaceful means and to oppose opinions in favour of military interference and imposition and to cooperate with the Non-Aligned Movement. www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19990526wpc.htm   (1372 words)

Political Affairs Magazine - World Peace Movement Counters Imperialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The WPC considers it to be a provocation by the USA, which, along with its main allies, is the biggest nuclear threat to mankind, to present itself as being the protector of humanity from the nuclear danger. The WPC supports the peaceful and independent reunification of the Korean peninsula and expresses its solidarity with the Korean people in their fight against the military presence of US troops on their soil. The WPC is committing itself to strengthen even more the coordinatedefforts for the removal of all Foreign military bases, which constitute a violation of the sovereignty of the countries where located and a daily threat to the respective region and peoples. www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/3538/1/189   (1283 words)

[news] Declaration of The Assembly of The World Peace Council In accordance with the UN resolutions, the WPC demands the immediate withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from all territories occupied in 1967, including the Golan Heights of Syria and the establishment of the independent state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital, alongside Israel. The WPC expresses its solidarity with the peoples of Yugoslavia in their struggle against the consequences of the barbarous NATO aggression, which led to the occupation of part of Serbian territory, Kossovo, and its transformation into a NATO protectorate. The WPC denounces the imprisonment of the five Cuban political prisoners who fought against terrorist plans in the United States, while Cuban- born convicted terrorists are walking free in the same country. www.mail-archive.com /news@antic.org/msg06021.html   (1914 words)

PMag v08n6p20 -- Following the Money Trail at the World Peace Council The WPC staff, cut from nearly 60 in the late 1980s to 4 or 5 now, would probably be shrunk down to Stewart himself. Now the WPC participant lists are just a list of people from different countries who have been under the false impression that they were the international peace movement. Rob Prince was U.S. Secretary to the World Peace Council from 1986-1990. www.peacemagazine.org /archive/v08n6p20.htm   (1524 words)

World Peace Endowment Fund Our choices are to accept war throughout the world as inevitable, or to do something new that really has been demonstrated to create a powerful influence of peace in the world. The only way to create permanent peace is to take recourse to Natural Law—that is, to enliven in national world consciousness the most fundamental, powerful, and silent field of Nature, the Unified Field of Natural Law (refer to The Discovery of the Unified. These experts create peace not by talking or by bombing, but by radiating peace from the level of infinite peace in the unbounded ocean of consciousness within every human being. www.worldpeaceendowment.org /endowment1.html   (1383 words)

Famous world peacemakers - Peace Australia First, we must understand that nonviolence is not a strategy that we can use in times of peace and discard in a moment of crisis. Our compassion for the victims and our horror at the inhumane deeds must not become an excuse for hatred or bigotry or be exploited by those who seek to divide us on the basis of religion or ethnic origin. As people of all faith we pray for peace and call on world leaders to respond to this tragedy seeking justice, not revenge. worldpeace.org.au /messages.asp   (909 words)

Summit Council for World Peace The Council provides a forum and an organization for world leaders where their wisdom and experience may be utilized, and their initiatives may be discussed and implemented in the service of world peace and the betterment of mankind. The Council seeks to avail itself of the extraordinary wealth of knowledge, intelligence and goodwill of former heads of state and heads of governments of the countries of the world that comprise its membership. The Summit Council is proud to be a co-sponsor of the World Culture and Sports Festival that celebrates a vision for an ideal global community for the 21st century. www.summitcouncil.org   (687 words)

History of Summit Council for World Peace Washington, D.C. June 16 - 18, 1996: “The Role of the Island Nations in the 21st Century.” World Convention of the Federation of Island Nations for World Peace was co-sponsored with the Summit Council for World Peace, the Women’s Federation for World Peace, and the Family Federation for World Peace. Washington, D.C. November 27, 1997: “A World Vision for the 21st Century.” The Fourth World Peace Conference, co-hosted by the Summit Council for World Peace. Washington, D.C. January 26-30, 2001: WCSF 2001 and Convocation of World Leaders on “Dialogue and Harmony among Civilizations: the Family, Universal Values, and World Peace.” The Summit Council and the Federation for World Peace organized a session on “the Role of the State in the Economic Transformation of Society.” New York, NY. www.summitcouncil.org /history.shtml   (2212 words)

Statement of World Peace Council on East Timor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Welcoming the results of a recent referendum in which overwhelming majority of the residents of East Timor express their will for independence, the Worl d Peace Council would like to express its heartfelt solidarity to the effort s for the independence of East Timor. The results of the referendum was of g reat significance in terms of a historical current of 20th century character ized by the growing number of national independence. The World Peace Council calls upon all peace movements in Asia and in the wo rld to take active initiatives of support and solidarity for the independenc e of East Timor and possibly the soonest peaceful solution of the situation. www.converge.org.nz /pma/etwpc.htm   (271 words)

Kuo-Mo-Jo 1952 address to World Peace Council on US bio-terrorism The monstrous crime of the U.S. government is the gravest threat to the security of mankind and world peace. It violates human justice, tramples on all international conventions and directly violates the solemn resolution demanding the prohibition of bacteriological weapons, chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction which was passed at the Warsaw World Peace Congress in 1950 and represents the common desire of mankind. On our sart, we would welcome World Peace Council initiative inorganising a broad international commission composed of honest sincere and independent people and joined by world-renowned scientists and by people who have not joined our movement but sincerely support the eause of peace and have a humanitarian point of view. southmovement.alphalink.com.au /southnews/KUO-1952.htm   (1894 words)

Workers World June 1, 2000: Solidarity against U.S. aggression prevails at World Peace Assembly in Athens, Greece The latter view was backed by the French Movement for Peace, which had dominated the leadership of the WPC since the overthrow of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The conference also voted to move the WPC headquarters from Paris to Athens and elected Athanasios Pafilis of Greece to replace Lysanne Elisander of the French Movement for Peace as WPC general secretary. General Secretary Kim Il Bong of the Korean National Peace Committee warned of the dangers posed by the massive U.S. military and nuclear presence on the Korean Peninsula and asked why Washington is unwilling to sign a peace treaty with his country. www.workers.org /ww/2000/athens0601.php   (863 words)

THE WORLD PEACE COUNCIL BILL V.1.07 With regard to big instability in Russia it is not possible to exclude war conflict of world importance. If the world war conflict occured between NATO countries on one side and Russia and its countries on the other side it could cause loss of million respectivly milliards of human lives. It is the question of time to create world system of global safety, where each country becomes SRM member. members.tripod.com /~peaceclub/srmbezda.htm   (2541 words)

World Peace Council: Free Cuban 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The World Peace Council (WPC) denounced Monday the illegal imprisonment of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in the United States for trying to thwart terrorist actions against their country and demanded their immediate release. Presented by Iraklis Tsavdaris, secretary of that pacifist organization, the call was spread among its members in the world and released to the media. The WPC critiques that illegal manipulation of truth and clarifies that the aim of the Cuban Five was to gather information about terrorist plots by anti-Cuban organizations in Miami, Florida, to prevent the deaths of Cuban and even United States citizens. www.trabajadores.co.cu /2006/octubre/10_ingles/textos_y_fotos/peace.htm   (198 words)

World Peace Foundation: Projects: African Leadership The Council delivered the documents to the African Union, to the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), and to heads of state in Africa. The Council now seeks to add to its membership, particularly by recruiting senior women and senior leaders from Africa. The African Leadership Council is now ready to assist leaders, governments, and international organizations in meeting the many challenges of leadership in Africa, and seeks to sponsor capacity building seminars for leaders in Africa and at the Kennedy School. www.worldpeacefoundation.org /africanleadership.html   (356 words)

Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi Wins World Peace Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The council is awarding Meles for his efforts in the peaceful resolution of the Ethio-Eritrea border dispute, for his commendable work in revitalizing the process of national reconciliation in war-torn Somalia under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity. The council also paid tribute to his activities in resolving conflicts in the Sudan and the Great Lakes region under the auspices of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development. The idea of the World Peace Council was initiated in the 1960s during the presidency of John F. Kennedy of the United States. english.peopledaily.com.cn /200207/16/eng20020716_99777.shtml   (385 words)

wcbstv.com - World Peace: Security Council Enjoys Knicks-Heat At the invitation of U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, council members headed to Madison Square Garden on Wednesday to watch the New York Knicks get trounced, 103-87, by the Miami Heat, their 17th loss in the last 19 games. Danish envoy Ellen Margrethe Loj, the only woman on the 15-member council, arrived saying, "I don't know a thing about basketball." She got a crash course from former NBA player Mike Bantom -- now the NBA's senior vice president for player development -- who watched part of the game with her. It was in Madison Square Garden that he saw his first basketball game over 30 years ago -- soon after communist China took over the Security Council seat from Taiwan in 1971. wcbstv.com /topstories/local_story_054080231.html   (508 words)

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