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A CALL TO OUR GUIDING INSTITUTIONS
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to enter into close dialogue and counsel with religious and spiritual communities concerning the peaceful resolution of conflicts and the criteria (if any) for a "just war";
to mitigate the factors that lead to violent conflict and war: government (and government-authorized) sales of arms; possession and threat to use nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and policies that underwrite economic exploitation, social or political injustice, or the destruction of communities and habitats,
THE CALL TO GOVERNMENT
to denounce, counter, and deter genocide, as well as persecution, oppression, and terrorism of any sort, whether directed at members of a religious or spiritual community, of an ethnic or national group, of a culture, generation, or gender;
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to broaden the role of the military to include such peacemaking functions as: meeting the challenges of natural disasters, famine, and epidemic; building or repairing vital infrastructure; or conducting ecological surveys;
to take up their responsibility in the international effort to remedy the indebtedness of the poorest nations and establish more transparent, holistic, and culturally sensitive measures for assessing economic development;
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to move toward a model of communities of communities," from the village level through the international, with an ethos of service to the common good.
1999 PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS
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