{"id":291764,"date":"2010-04-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/arms-down\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:40:16","slug":"arms-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/arms-down\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Arms Down!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an international campaign, sponsored by the youth section of ‘Religions for Peace’ <\/b>(formerly the WCRP – World Conference of Religions for Peace) and by its International Council, where the Focolare Movement, the Rissho Kosei-kai and Shanti Ashram are represented.<\/p>\n

The campaign is counting on inter-religious co-operation and will reach out to international organizations<\/b>, governments, parliaments and national assemblies, town councils and the media, to ask with determination for a definite reduction in nuclear and conventional arms and to reallocate military spending to support urgently needed development, as set forth in the Millennium Development Goals (United Nations 2000).<\/p>\n

It also asks for a review of the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty<\/a>, planned for 2010<\/b>, as support on an international level appears more and more fragile as the situation in areas of crisis gets worse.<\/p>\n

The campaign was launched officially in Costa Rica on 7 November 2009.<\/b> The Focolare Movement participated right from the beginning by sending 6 delegates, amongst who were 4 young people from different countries.<\/p>\n

During her trip to Asia last January Maria Voce, President of the Focoalare Movement, inaugurated the collaboration with a solemn signing<\/b> of the appeal during her meeting with the leaders of the young people of the Rissho Kosei-kai. The collecting of signatures was publically launched in Mid-February during the meeting of the Young People for a United World in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) and subsequently throughout the world. The annual get-together at Loppiano for young people on 1st May (Florence, Italy) and other events linked to United World Week (1-9 May) will be important occasions to spread the campaign.<\/p>\n

Who can help?<\/b>
Everyone – the response is personal and can be made by simply adding one’s own signature on-line at the Religions for Peace site (http:\/\/religionsforpeace.org\/initiatives\/global-youth-network\/campaign-for-shared-security\/<\/a>) or by organizing one’s own collection of signatures using the forms that are downloadable from the site.<\/p>\n

‘At a time when it is urgent to react to a war mentality’,<\/b> the organizers affirm, ‘and to give strength to the international civil society uniting with those who are working for the same aim, we feel that this initiative can be a constructive means of supporting practical choices for peace and universal fraternity.’<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A campaign has been launched to collect 50 million signatures throughout the world in 2010 to raise awareness in the international community and to support a demand for disarmament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}