The Responsibility to Protect: International Ecumenical Consultation
Schmitten, Germany
The international responsibility to protect people at risk applies to Darfur, the WCC executive committee said in September.
Photo: A girl in a camp for the displaced near Zalingei, West Darfur. © Simon Peter Odong, ACT/Caritas
Does the human family have the responsibility - or even the duty - to intervene when states are no longer capable or willing to protect some segments of their population? How can adequate information about gross human rights violations be secured?
These and related concerns are on the agenda for discussion during this consultation at the Arnoldshain Academy, jointly organised by the WCC's Commission on International Affairs and the Decade to Overcome Violence, by the Theological Working Group on the Decade within the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christlicher Kirchen in Germany and the Protestant Church in Hessen and Nassau to which the Academy belongs.
The consultation is part of the European focus of the Decade to Overcome Violence and of the preparatory process leading to an Ecumenical Declaration on Just Peace to be presented to the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in May 2011.
Download the programme:
English version (pdf, 367 Kb)
German version (pdf, 387 Kb)
More information is available on the website of the Arnoldshain Academy