Peace-Related Overtures

Analysis

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Prior to GA

If you are a peace overture advocate from your presbytery, or you have expertise or interest…or if you can help communicate peace overture concerns to your presbytery and/or synod commissioners, please contact the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship at ppfwitness@gmail.com or 520-780-6928.

During the Assembly only

Please contact PPF Advocacy Coordinator Marilyn White at the PPF booth (#301) or marwhite@igc.com or 512-450-2766.
The following overtures, arranged by topic, are being monitored by PPF. Unless otherwise noted, we support these overtures and advocate for their passage.
  1. Iraq War
  2. Gun Violence
  3. Colombia
  4. Israel/Palestine
  5. A Social Creed for the Twenty-First Century
  6. Interfaith Relations and Peacemaking
  7. Conscientious Objectors
  8. Other Peace-Related Overtures


Most of the overtures we are monitoring are assigned to Committee 11: Peacemaking and International Issues.

“The Peacemaking and International Issues Committee considers matters related to: Peacemaking, international military affairs and the arms race; international matters; human rights; plight of refuges worldwide; international economic justice; global evangelism and education.” We expect that Committee 11 will be staffed at the 218th GA by Joel Hanisek, Presbyterian Representative at the United Nations. Mark Koenig, Coordinator of the Peacemaking Program, and Chris Iosso, of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy, as well as other world mission staff, will be available to assist as needed, but may also be staffing other committees.