Building a culture of peace based on justice is a major JPC goal. These include increasing poverty, unemployment, displacement and the collapse of democratic institutions as a result of economic globalization, market-driven, lopsided industrialization and development policies that threaten to destroy the ecosystem, unabated violence against women and children, exploitation and oppression of the powerless.
Violence has many faces, and structural forms of violence victimize vast majorities.
In order to overcome violence, we need to overcome injustice. To this end, the JPC team will facilitate theological reflection and study to accompany the DOV, gather and share theological insights and faith experiences, worship resources, meditations, hymns and songs. We hope thereby to assist the churches to discover afresh the meaning of our ministry of reconciliation. Certain theological ambiguities have made churches tacit supporters or, in some cases, perpetrators of violence. Our study will grapple with that and, at the same time, attempt to uphold the life-affirming, creative character of Christian theology.