A conference from the Holy See's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, November 10-11, 2017. Nobel laureates, religious leaders, senior diplomats, scholars. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : toward a positive peace / Drew Christiansen, S.J. -- Address by His Holiness Pope Francis -- Address by Cardinal Pietro Parolin -- Surviving the atomic bomb / Masako Wada -- Hiroshima's heritage and the role of companies in city reconstruction : how this experience shaped today's values / Bruno L. Muller -- Letter from Nobel Peace Prize Laureates To His Holiness Pope Francis on the occasion of the international conference / Mohamed ElBaradei, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Jody Williams, and Muhammad Yunus -- Nuclear weapons : confronting armageddon / Mohamed ElBaradei -- For the disarmament of injustice / Adolfo Perez Esquivel -- Will human beings survive another century? / Muhammad Yunus -- What the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons can offer for the future work of Nongovernmental Organizations / Beatrice Fihn -- Nukes, land mines and killer robots / Jody Williams -- The peace process in Northern Ireland / Mairead Corrigan-Maguire -- The UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Ban Nuclear Weapons : a debate / Rose Gottemoeller, Thomas Hajmoczi, and Jorge Lomonaco -- Beyond nuclear deterrence : transforming the U.S.-Russian equation / Alexei Georgevich Arbatov -- International diplomacy and international security issues / Izumi Nakamitsu -- The role of international diplomacy and international organizations / Thomas Stelzer -- The humanitarian initiative as a condition for the ban on nuclear weapons / Francʹois Bugnion -- The role of civil society / Susi Snyder -- Reconciliation and disarmament / Marie-Noelle Koyara -- The risks of nuclear war today / Paolo Cotta-Ramusino -- Dealing with weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East / Emily Landau -- Nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolving the deadlock / Ayman Khalil -- We must do no less / Monsignor Robert W. McElroy -- Transforming the human spirit / Hiromasa Ikeda -- Migrations and wars / Monica Attias -- The social and moral responsibilities of knowledge workers / Drew Christiansen, S.J. -- Preliminary conclusions / Stephen Colecchi -- Salutations / H.E. Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson -- Afterword : the Holy See and nuclear disarmament : achievements and challenges / Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi.
Summary:
"In November 2017 Pope Francis made the first declaration in the nuclear area rejecting the possession of nuclear weapons, even as a form of deterrence. To set the stage for this statement, he hosted a conference at the Vatican. Under the leadership of Cardinal Turkson, a charismatic priest from Ghana and potential future pope, religious and secular leaders came together, from representatives of NATO and Russia to members of ICAN who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, to make an historic statement about the unacceptability of nuclear arms. One of the last speakers was a hibakusha, a survivor of Hiroshima. This book collects the official statements made during that conference. Beginning with Francis' own words, it includes contributions from Nobel Laureates Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Muhammad Yunus, Mohamed El Baradei, and Mairead Maguire, as well as essays by Cardinal Turkson and Nato Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller"-- Provided by publisher.
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