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Global Priorities: An International Inter-Religious Campaign

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Global Priorities: An International Inter-religious Campaign to Change Budget Priorities is working to combat poverty by mobilizing religious as well as secular communities to alter national and global budget priorities. It is vital to find effective ways to change direction. With global military

  

expenditures exceeding $1 trillion annually, reducing such spending in poor countries as well as rich ones can and must be a central component of the battle to eradicate poverty: UNICEF’s annual budget is spent on military purposes every 15 hours, even as one billion children live in almost unimaginable

 

conditions of deprivation.

At a time when the world faces the worst economic crisis in recent memory, the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, the ongoing struggle against violent extremism, and crises in the Middle East and Central Asia, nations read more...

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International Statement

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An international statement in 2010 endorsed by the Vatican, The Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches has helped create the basis for a concrete international measure in the years ahead. International Statement Global Priorities Initiative A new international initiative, Global Priorities, links nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation to…

Global Security Priorities Resolution Event Material

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Enclosed are documents from the Global Security Priorities Resolution meeting held last night: Opening Remarks 

Bishop Mark Hanson Bishop Thomas Wenski

 Major General William Burns on Nuclear Weapons

 Martin Rendon Lawrence Korb

Global Security Priorities Resolution

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A Very Special Briefing: Global Security Priorities in the 21st Century Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:00 – 5:00 PM 1116 Longworth House Office Building Dear Colleague, I want to invite you and your staff to a very special briefing on America’s global security priorities over the next several years. How…

Mutirao Workshop

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Mutirao Workshop number 51 on 22 FEBRUARY 2006 World Council of Churches General Assembly Porto Alegre Arms and Poverty: Changing the Global Balance Rev. Hansulrich Gerber, Coordinator of the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) stressed that hunger might be one of the greatest forms of…

A Marshall Plan For The Third World

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WITH the international donors conference for millions of earthquake victims in Kashmir in northern Pakistan collecting only about a quarter of its $550 million goal in Geneva recently, it is fair to ask if the United States and others are doing enough. To be sure, the United States has sent…

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