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Archbishop Welby

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2018-08-29
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  1. “While I would like to thank all ofthose who will speak today on behalf of their States, I urge the Security Council to commit to the ongoing transformation of violent conflict into non-violent disagreement and eventually into a truly inclusive approach to participation in mediation and reconciliation, now and for future generations.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  2. “Earlier this year, I hosted an Emerging Peacemakers Forum in London, bringing together 50 young Christians and Muslims from around the world in pre-emptive reconciliation to learn about leadership in peacebuilding. The superb work done by my colleagues liberated participants to inspiring visions of peace. They will serve peace for many years. In conclusion, I again thank the United Kingdom for the opportunity to address the Security Council at today's open debate. I am grateful to the Secretary- General for his leadership on the issue and willingness to take innovative steps to seek out new ways of working. At a time when the United Nations is debating and pointing to the horrors in Myanmar, we are reminded that conflict destroys dignity, hope and all of our best dreams and is often intractable.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  3. “As we think about new and innovative approaches to conflict prevention, this is an example of how the United Nations, Member States and faith actors can be allies, with the potential for transformational results. As the Secretary-General has stated, women's and youth participation in mediation and conflict transformation is especially essential to success. In the Anglican community, we are developing a programme called Women on the Front Line, which offers support and equips women based on their contexts. It has already been used in several places with severe conflict. It will need to be complemented by youth on the front line, as the Council emphasized in the year 2000.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  4. “I have the privilege of having assembled a team in my office that is already learning from past experiences. Many of its members have worked with the United Nations. Together, we can reach out to counterparts from other faiths to encourage their involvement and support, as they are already doing. That is our collaborative offer to the United Nations in this time of global pain. Large tracts of territory around the world are violently contested in situations where government has failed. They are differently governed spaces, where no official Government rules. Even there, the Church and other faith groups, sometimes existing precariously, provide a form of hope and mediation in those extraordinarily difficult contexts.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  5. “The work of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, particularly the production of the Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes, provides an important framework for how religious communities need to contribute to preventing the escalation of conflicts. I also want to acknowledge the important work of the United Nations Inter-agency Task Force on Religion and Development. However, it is overdue for the United Nations to move beyond those still fragmented efforts. Enabling transformative reconciliation must be at the core when we build United Nations partnerships with faith communities. Let me pledge my support to the Secretary-General in that work.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  6. “A cross-agency and cross-departmental reconciliation strategy, supported by the necessary resources, will open up current ways of working to new and innovative ways of negotiating strategies for peace, offering more options in an increasingly complex international system. There is already much good work taking place. The work of the Mediation Support Unit, which also provides excellent Secretariat support for the High- level Advisory Board, is vital. The Advisory Board itself is an important and innovative step towards a new way of approaching conflict transformation. Partnership between United Nations offices and groups, such as the Network for Traditional and Religious Peacemakers, helps to build a shared understanding.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  7. “It can set it on a different path. Their work is done by the young and the elderly, by women and men and by the rich and the poor. They seek a people's peace. If we can learn how to set conflict transformation in a framework ofreconciliation, including at the grass- roots level and not only by elites in conferences, we open ourselves to working together in new and more effective ways as we strive for peace, as the Secretary- General has just said. We enable mediation to be orders of magnitude more effective. As I have already said, the United Nations is the most extraordinary example of a framework of reconciliation, but that framework needs to be embedded in current ways of working and analysis.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  8. “I ask representatives whether the approaches to reconciliation are currently adequate, especially using local, religious and traditional sources ofpeacemaking? Even in this time of uncertainty and renewed international rivalry, for the sake of future peace we must invest in reconciliation and learn how to support transformation in human relationships. The role that an institution such as the Church plays in that regard is significant. Religious institutions are often the only functioning institutions in a fragile or pre-conflict situation. They are present before, during and after conflict. They provide early warnings of signs of conflict in communities. Working with and through religious and other institutions to provide pre-emptive reconciliation frameworks can prevent conflict becoming violent or returning to violence.”

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  9. “National interests are still too often allowed, even in the Chamber, to overcome the wisdom that those who lived through global war learned. Without dealing with even passionate disagreement peacefully, no national interest can prevail. Short-term advantage for one interest leads to long-term destruction for all through great wars and small conflicts. Reconciliation is not an act that comes at the end of the conflict cycle. It must become the framework that enables us to sustain peace and to prevent conflict cycles repeating with an ever-increasing destructive force. A British football coach, a manager of the Liverpool team, once famously told his team to get their retaliation in first. If we are to transform conflict, we need instead to get our reconciliation in first.”

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  10. “We therefore need to complement mediation - in fact, the whole conflict cycle - within the framework of reconciliation. The vision of the United Nations founders was no less than to abolish conflict. Many of them were responding to the words of Jesus Christ, applicable to all parts of the Earth, in the Beatitudes: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God". The very life of Jesus was given in the cause of peace with God, with oneself and with others. There are and always will be profound differences among and within nations, but the terms on which those differences are dealt with look very different today to 70 years ago. We have avoided global nuclear war, yet not its continuing menace. However, today the international rules-based order is struggling.”

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  11. “For example, in South Sudan, Church leaders, including the leader of the country's Anglican Church, Archbishop Justin Badi Arama, play an increasingly important role in moving the whole peace process beyond the current roadblocks that representatives know so well. However, mediation can be effective only when it is in the context of structures of reconciliation. Where mediation is about resolving conflict, reconciliation is the process of transforming violent conflict into non-violent coexistence where communities have come to terms with history and are learning to disagree well. Mediation by itself, however skilled, is like using a garden hose to put out a forest fire, when what is needed is rain over the whole area so as to let new life grow and sustain itself.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  12. “I greatly look forward to hearing from our civil society representative. I am honoured to be here today, speaking in a dual capacity as a member of the High-level Advisory Board on Mediation and as a religious leader within a global Church. Anglicanism is a global Church in which the average member is poor, a woman or someone living in a conflict or post-conflict setting who has the aspirations of all vulnerable people, above all a longing for peace. The Church and other faith communities are intimately present where there are conflicts. We cannot and will not walk away from them.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source

  13. “Archbishop Welby: Let me put on record my sincere thanks to the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, Her Excellency Dame Karen Pierce, for her invitation to address this organ during this open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security. It is also a great honour to speak under the presidency of Lord Ahmad. He is an outstanding representative of the British Government. I would also like to express my sense of loss after the death of one of the greatest servants of the United Nations, and indeed of peace, Mr. Kofi Annan. His life was lived with a vision of reconciliation and with a personal integrity that will earn him lasting renown. It is a privilege to follow the Secretary-General's words. We could not have asked for a better opening briefing to set the context of this debate.”

    2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source