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16. Nov 07 - 18. Nov 07
The Responsibility to Protect: International Ecumenical ConsultationEvangelische Akademie Arnoldshain - Schmitten, Germany The international responsibility to protect people at risk applies to Darfur, the WCC executive committee said in September. Does the human family have the responsibility - or even the duty - to intervene when states are no longer capable or willing to protect some segments of their population? How can adequate information about gross human rights violations be secured?
These and related concerns are on the agenda for discussion during this consultation, jointly organised by the WCC's Commission on International Affairs and the Decade to Overcome Violence, by the Theological Working Group on the Decade within the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christlicher Kirchen in Germany and the Protestant Church in Hessen and Nassau to which the Arnoldshain Academy belongs.
The consultation is part of the European focus of the Decade to Overcome Violence and of the preparatory process leading to an Ecumenical Declaration on Just Peace to be presented to the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in May 2011.
More information on the website of Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain
PROGRAMMEFriday, November 16 Arrivals till 18.00 18.00 Dinner 19.00 Opening of the Consultation Dr. Guillermo KERBER, World Council of Churches (WCC) – Geneva Dr. Hermann DUERINGER, Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau 19.30 The Responsibility to Protect – Scope and challenges Dr. Hugo SLIM, Corporates for Crisis – London Security and Vulnerability Rev. Raag ROLFSEN, Church of Norway – Oslo Floor open for discussion
Saturday, November 17 8.00 Breakfast 9.00 Morning Prayer 9.30 Moderator: Dr. Geiko Muller-Fahrenholz, WCC Peacemaking and Policing The View of the Historic Peace Churches Prof. Dr. Fernando ENNS, University of Hamburg R2P & Just Policing: A Roman Catholic and Yoderian Perspective Prof. Dr. Tobias WINRIGHT, University of St. Louis – St Louis 10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 “R2P” in Orthodox Perspective Dr. Marian SIMEON - Boston Theological Institute – Boston 11.30 Response to the 3 positions: Rev. Dr. Konrad RAISER, Former WCC General Secretary, Berlin Floor discussion 12.30 Lunch 14.30 How to establish the truth about gross human rights violations? How to assess the criteria for intervention? Moderator: Rev. Barbara Rudolph, General Secretary, Council of Christian Churches in Germany
Mr. Marc SAXER, Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung – Berlin Ms. Sapna CHHATPAR, World Federalist Movement – New York
15.30 Coffee Break 16.00 Churches and civil society as agents of peace: prevention, mitigation and reconciliation Moderator: Dr. Guillermo KERBER, WCC Mr. Ernie REGHER, Project Ploughshares – Waterloo Ms. Camilla BUZZI, Norwegian Church Aid – New York Ms. Semegnish ASFAW, WCC – Geneva 18.30 Dinner
19.30 Reception by the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau Sunday, November 18, 2007 8.00 Breakfast 9.00 Morning prayer led by Rev. Mechthild Gunkel, Zentrum Ökumene 9.15 WORKING GROUPS Group1: Theological Issues and Church-related Policies of “R2P” Group2: Political challenges (R2P in the global context) 10.30 Coffee Break 11.00 Plenary Session Moderator: Dr. Hermann Dueringer Working Groups’ reporting Closing Acrions 12.30 Lunch Departures
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