1. Pax Christi Pope Francis and the call to nonviolence
This presentation tells the story of Pax Christi’s origins and our work, both internationally and in the UK, today.

2. What they say about war and peace
Margaret Mizen
What they say about war and peace
Harry Patch

3. Jesus Pope Francis St Martin of Tours Harry Patch Malala Yousafza
What they say about war and peace
Jesus
Pope Francis
St Martin of Tours
Harry Patch
Malala Yousafza
Kate Monkhouse
Margaret Mizen

4. World War II
The international movement Pax Christi – the Peace of Christ – has its origins in the second world war. With the use of new and deadly technology, 50 million people, 25 million of them civilians were killed … In campaigns of carpet bombing over European cities…through the first use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki…and in the concentration camps in Germany and Poland.

5. Pax Christi – a human, faith based response to war
Martha Dortel-Claudot
Meanwhile, in France in 1944 a teacher from Toulouse, Madame Martha Dortel Claudot offered a human response to the great mental and spiritual rift created between the people of France and Germany. With great urgency she started a campaign of prayer for Franco-German reconciliation and healing saying, “ Jesus died for all. No one should be excluded from our prayers”.
She shared her idea with a local Bishop, Pierre Marie Theas, who had been imprisoned by the Gestapo for acts of resistance. In concentration camp he urged his fellow prisoners to pray, in the spirit of the Gospel and Christian reconciliation, for their enemies, the people of Germany.
Bishop Pierre Marie Theas
Inspired by the Gospel

6. Speaking up around the world

7. South Sudan DRC Yemen Nigeria Colombia Syria Iraq
We are all losers after every war. Any war we fight will only take us back socially and economically to those dark days of survival of the fittest. Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos
SolidaritySSudan

8. Imagine Pope Francis teaches Mr Trump

9. Imagine… Budget rethink
Violence prevention
Eradication of social injustice
Investment in unarmed civilian ptotection
International conversations on ‘common security and nonviolent peacemaking’
Trauma healing project…

10. Imagine… Formation - seminaries, universities, teacher education
Conflict transformation
Peace and the sacraments
Gospel nonviolence and life of Jesus
The lives of contemporary peacemakers

11. Imagine…
and more…

12. A question…
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?

14. An invitation
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 went on to challenge our gathering to “revitalise the tools of nonviolence, and active nonviolence in particular.”

15. Sr Nazik Matty - Iraq

16. Francisco de Roux sj, Colombia
It is my conviction that dialogue transforms... We go to the guerrillas and the para-military immediately after a massacre or attack. We try to respect them.

17. Arch John Odama, Gulu, Uganda
Human beings want to be loved, trusted, listened to….
We became like a bridge between the Government and the rebels

18. Global Success Rates of Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns, 1900-2015
p<.001 (omitting ongoing cases) Source: MEC Dataset

19. The way of…
Challenging and absorbing violence … chosen as a way of creating a greater good and transforming…

20. Another way Active Nonviolence in face of injustice The way of Jesus
- Do not repay evil with evil
- Expose the injustice of a system and change it…
- Challenge the status quo…
- Assert own humanity/dignity
- Break cycles of humiliation
- Willing to suffer rather than retaliate with violence
Active Nonviolence
in face of injustice
The way of
Jesus

21. Models of Nonviolence Power of witness and story…
How can we celebrate these?

22. A call to the church & society
…be a living witness

23. World Peace Day 2017

24. From 16 Street Baptist Church
The two hands of nonviolence

25. The way of active nonviolence

26. creating hope and peace for the human family
Working together as a human family, to give meaning to Pax Christi - the Peace of Christ. Creating hope and building peace for all.
Join us and join a global community for peace

27. Some reflection
“The time has come for our Church to be a living witness and to invest far greater human and financial resources in promoting a spirituality and practice of active nonviolence… in forming and training our Catholic communities in this work?
What steps can we begin to take to help create such communities within our parishes, institutions, groups or schools?
(groups might want to focus on one area/break down to discuss all options)

28. Pax Christi St Joseph’s Watford Way, London NW4 4TY www. paxchristi
Pax Christi St Joseph’s Watford Way, London NW4 4TY