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Toda Pacific Declaration on Climate Change, Conflict and Peace
In September 2018, the Toda Peace Institute and the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (University of Otago, New Zealand) conducted a workshop on “Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific: Prevention, Management and the Enhancement of Community Resilience” in Auckland, New Zealand.
Flowing from the debates and findings of that workshop, a draft of the ‘Toda Pacific Declaration on Climate Change, Conflict and Peace’ was elaborated and opened for comment. After an extensive and comprehensive process of discussion and several iterations of the draft, the Declaration was launched on 29 July 2019. The Declaration has been contributed to by many academics, policymakers, peacebuilding practitioners and civil society actors concerned about the challenges and potential conflict linkages posed by climatic uncertainty in the Pacific. In particular, Toda is grateful to the lead authors Volker Boege, John Campbell, Kevin Clements, Kirsten Davies and Upolu Luma Vaai.
Our wish now is that the Declaration, available at this link on the Toda website, will be widely circulated and endorsed by as many people and organisations as possible. Organisational endorsements can count the number of people represented by the organisation. Please go to the link, endorse the Declaration and circulate it widely to your networks.
Read the Declaration 戸田太平洋宣言（日本語版）
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. After the election you have much to be thankful for. The challenge now is to ensure that the Biden administration is genuinely inclusive,just ,peacefully oriented and progressive. There has to be a new positive normal!!
We need to return to a separation of powers between church and state, mosque, temple, synagogue and state. The evidence is clear.Countries that separate the sacred and the secular are more likely to be just,inclusive and peaceful than theocracies and states that do not. https://t.co/MMqf89CVPw
the religious and political right have joined forces to utilise scripture for partisan, undemocratic, and illegal purposes while forgetting injunctions about walking humbly, loving enemies, praying for those that persecute you and forgiving those who have offended you.!