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"Peace Among the People – Interreligious Action for Peace and Inclusive Communities", keynote address by Peter Prove, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches, at the Peace Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, 21 November 2023.

A World Free From Nuclear Weapons is Possible: remarks by Peter Prove, Director of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs at the International Meeting for Peace: Religions and Cultures in Dialogue "The Audacity of Peace", Berlin, 10-12 September 2023.

"Diakonia of Hope in a fragile world", keynote address by Rev Dr Kenneth Mtata at the Regional Conference for the DRAE (Africa and Europe) region in Neuendettelsau, Germany, 06 - 10 September 2023

Address of Peter Prove, WCC director of international affairs on “Imagining a Safer World” at a “Churches Together South Australia” event on 13 August 2023.

On 27 July 1953 – 70 years ago today – the Korean War Armistice Agreement was signed in Panmunjom by senior representatives of the United Nations Command, and military leaders of North Korea (the Korean People's Army) and China (the Chinese People's Volunteer Army).

Lecture of the World Council of Churches central committee moderator Bishop Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm delivered at the Kitzingen deanery, a regional church district near Würzburg, Germany.

Keynote address of Peter Prove, Director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches at the 2018 Global Peace Forum on Korea, New York, 29 September 2018

Lecture by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the summer course offered by the foundation Pro Oriente

"Perspectives on Migration: Displacement and Marginalization, Inclusion and Justice.
An Ecumenical Vision" - Speech by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches at the reception hosted by UNICEF, in New York, 22 January 2018, as part of as part of the 4th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations in International Affairs.

The ecumenical chance of the year 2017 - review - proposals - perspectives, by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC General Secretary.

Speech by WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit on 27 October 2016, at the Peterskirche, the University Church of Heidelberg.

On 6 April, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit addressed the issue of global security in a contribution to York Minster’s lecture series Global Security and the United Nations: 70 years on, in York, UK.

Speech by Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm at 70th Anniversary Hiroshima Day Rally, World Conference Against A and H Bombs, Green Arena, Prefectural Gymnasium, Hiroshima, 6 August 2015. WCC Pilgrimage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki 5-9 August 2015.

Speech by Rev. Dr Sang Chang, WCC Asia President, Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea, at the Nuclear Disarmament Symposium Hiroshima, 6 August 2015.

The WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse message at the Tveit Pacem in Terris - 50th Anniversary, The Vatican, 3 October 2013.

Speech by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, at the International Ecumenical Forum, 30 January to 3 February 2012 in Trier, Germany.

Address by the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, at the conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Pacific Conference of Churches.

In this document prepared for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Dresden, the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, expands on the churches' vision of Just Peace. Presentation to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2 June 2011 (delivered by Martin Robra).

Speech given by Samuel Kobia at the Consultation on the "Peace of the World Free of Nuclear Weapons", organized by the Asia Pacific Graduate School, Korea; the National YMCA of Korea; and the DMZ Society, Hwacheon, Korea.