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"...in 2013 when the World Council of Churches, a body that represents more than 560 million Christians in Protestant, Orthodox, and other Christian denominations announced that "by its calling and vocation the Christian church is to be a peace church." ... What if the world's 1.2 Billion Catholics -- half of Christians today -- did the same?

"Just peace is an "orientation toward conflict transformation characterized by approaches that reduce violence and destructive cycles of social interaction and at the same time increase justice in any human relationship (John Paul Lederach, sociologist). This is a new approach. A third way is emerging."

"Currently 12 international, NGO's and many more local groups provide unarmed civilian protection in 17 areas of violent conflict." See Mel Duncan founding director of Nonviolent Peaceforce. In one year, Nonviolent Peaceforce trained more than 14,000 people in conflict -affected communities in unarmed civil protection.