The Decade to Overcome Violence is a global movement that aims to move peace-building from the periphery to the centre of the life and witness of the church and to build stronger alliances and understanding among churches, networks, and movements which are working toward a culture of peace.
The role of WCC for the Decade is to accompany and encourage the work of the churches in their efforts toward overcoming violence. The WCC, by commissioning studies and theological reflections on related issues, attempts to stimulate the churches to consider the interconnectedness of different forms of violence, as well as to broaden the scope of responses to violence in its totality.
Make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
