Resolution:

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace calls for the de-legitimization of inter-state war. We call on the government of Canada to take the necessary steps to imbed this policy into national infrastructure and pratcise as soon as possible within this Decade of a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World (2000-2010). We further call upon the government of Canada to seek changes within the international system, including the United Nations system, to fully support this policy.

Background:

The burden of resort to war is now borne by all of humanity: the inability of the international community to accomplish nuclear disarmament; the rise of the doctrine of pre-emptive self-defence; the threat of imperial ambitions; the escalating disregard for the rule of international law; the contradiction between state sanctioned resort to war as a way of solving international disputes and the universality of human rights; the appalling gap between monies devoted to military “security” and other sectors devoted to non-military human security; and the historically unprecedented human and environmetal costs of the wars which raged in the last century. All of these problems and more starkly condemn war as grossly immoral, perverse and risking omnicide. We demand that you help consign war, like slavery, colonialism and apartheid to the scrap heap of history by its de-legitimization, domestically and internationally.

Janis Alton, Co-Chair, on behalf of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace,
September 5, 2004.

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