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If you want peace, go and talk to your enemy!: An Ecumenical Peace Treatise, 2026 - with a preface by Konrad Raiser (edition pace SB) - Softcover
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Can we still draw guidance from the Sermon on the Mount today? Yes, say the authors of this treatise on peace. Because the Sermon on the Mount is compatible with modern peace research. In particular, the concept of the Logic of Peace points to ways how conflicts can be resolved through diplomacy and civil conflict resolution as well as how wars could be prevented. A well-informed analysis of the West's negative role in the escalation of the war in Ukraine clearly illustrates that the "log in one's own eye" at the political level. This ecumenical treatise on peace provides Christians and humanists a clear ethical orientation toward peace. It calls on us, in times of massive rearmament, to unequivocally advocate for military disarmament and for all states to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Churches, in particular, can be a strong, clear voice for peace and to help build a culture of peace. "The Church should, in its proclamation and pastoral care - and also in political ministry, think beyond what the powers of the world are capable of. That is why even the visionary title of the Ecumenical Peace Document - If you want peace, go and talk to your enemy! - is so encouraging." (Horst Scheffler, retired Chief Military Chaplain) "This peace treatise provides guidance in the best sense of the word: clear in its stance, understandable in its language, well-structured, and free of political and theological contortions." (Elisabeth Freise, Member: "Rethinking Security" Coordination Group) "Something very good has been created here! I find a clear structure and, even more importantly, a clear language. This makes the peace document useful on the long run in many different contexts - for example, in religious education or in non-church-based peace initiatives. And the long-term use and impact are more important than short-term attention. But of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive!" (Markus Weingardt, peace and conflict researcher) edition pace: special issue, in cooperation with the Ecumenical Institute for Peace Theology
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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
Ralf Becker, social entrepreneur, coordinator of the "Rethinking Security" (Sicherheit Neu Denken) initiative since 2019, coordinator of "Nonviolent Action - Ecumenical Peace Education" (Gewaltlos handeln - ökumenisch Frieden lernen e.V.) from 2012 to 2019. Involved, among other things, in the Speakers' Council of the Platform for Civil Conflict Management, in church development in the dioceses of Paderborn and Münster, the "Jubilee 2000" campaign, as well as the coordination of international sustainability dialogues and the implementation of the study "Zukunftsfähiges Deutschland" (A Sustainable Germany) at the aid organization Misereor.
Karen Hinrichs, retired pastor, theologian, and educator; 1989-2004 parish pastor and 2004-2019 senior church councilor of the Evangelical Regional Church in Baden; 2020-2025 lecturer and executive director of the Peace Institute at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg. Publications on peace education and theology. Member of, among others: Ecumenical Institute for Peace Theology, Gewaltfrei Handeln - Ökumenisch Frieden Lernen e.V., International Fellowship of Reconciliation - German Branch, Church and Peace.
Heinrich Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Dr. (ret.), sociologist and Protestant theologian, Bielefeld University; formerly at the Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica; since the late 1970s, he has been engaged in field research during two wars and other academic work in Latin America and Germany, focusing on the topic of "Conflict and Peace" from sociological and theological perspectives. His theological approach is a sociologically informed liberation theology.
Theodor Ziegler, Dr. phil., Baiersbronn, religious educator. He contributed to the peace ethics discussion process of the Baden Regional Church as well as to the development of the scenario "Rethinking Security: From Military to Civil Security Policy" and is a member of the Ecumenical Institute for Peace Theology as well as of the German Peace Society - United Opponents of War. Dissertation: "Motives and Alternative Concepts of Christian Pacifists."
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