Run with the vision… it is up to us Pat Gaffney, Lancaster Run with the vision… it is up to us Pat Gaffney, Lancaster. October 2016

Imagine…

Budget rethink…. Early warning systems Tackle climate change Eradicate poverty Investment in civilian peacekeeping International conversations on ‘common security’

Seminaries, places of formation teach Conflict resolution Peace and the sacraments Gospel nonviolence and life of Jesus The lives of contemporary peacemakers

In order to see solutions to the unique and terrible ‘world war in instalments… humanity needs to refurbish all the available tools to help men and women to fulfil their aspirations for justice and peace. Pope Francis, Rome April 2016 In trying to become invulnerable we fail to see the real havoc we create… the seeds that we sow… the lost opportunities… World has become a battlefield ( Paul Rogers) Stiglitz 3 Trillion Dollar War…. Real costs of which will not be discovered Until many years… on costs disabled service personnel/ environmental costs / reconstruction costs/ fuelling unrest Torture, extraodinary rendition. Changes in domestic law under the Serious Organised Crime Act…Control Orders… 5

How do we not allow a situation in the world where the assumption continues that when there is a situation of violence or potential violence the only answer is drop some more bombs? Marie Dennis Pax Christi International Pope Francis challenged us to “revitalise the tools of nonviolence, and active nonviolence in particular.”

We have

We know a nuclear weapon ban treaty is possible….

We won’t invest in weapons production

Especially nuclear weapons production

We will speak truth to power about the fuelling of conflict For Yemen: Stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia, now If we stop flooding the region with weapons!

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