Action group service for peace
The Action Group Service for Peace (AGDF) is an association of 34 institutions that carry out peace work with different focuses and work programs at home and abroad. The guiding principle of the AGDF is the biblical concept of peace as it is taken up in the “ Conciliar Process for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation ”. However, there are also some member organizations whose work for peace is derived from the tradition of human rights . The AGDF sees these two lines as mutually corrective and fertilizing. The AGDF works closely with the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), but emphasizes its structural independence.
history
The AGDF was founded in 1968 at the instigation of (Johann-) Wolfgang von Eichborn , who was chairman until 1977. In June 1981 the AGDF called for a peace demonstration on October 10, 1981 in Bonn's Hofgarten on the sidelines of the 19th German Protestant Church Congress in Hamburg with the Action Reconciliation Service .
In September 1985, the AGDF, together with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste, published the five Düsseldorf peace theses against military deterrence potentials, for a more equitable distribution of wealth in the world, for refusal of military service, for nonviolence at the 21st German Evangelical Church Congress in Düsseldorf .
In the meantime the AGDF has had the logo of the GDR peace movement " Swords to Plowshares " protected as a registered trademark and is taking legal action against unlicensed use with legal warnings. Previously (2005) the entry was rejected by the DPMA because it was not distinctive.
structure
The AGDF has three thematic departments:
- Department I: Local and Regional Peace Work.
- (Department II :) Qualification network for civil, non-violent conflict management
- Department III: Services (several months of volunteer work abroad, deployment of peace workers to civil conflict management)
Networking
The AGDF is itself a member of various national and international organizations, including:
- Working group "Learning and helping overseas" (AKLHÜ)
- Association of Voluntary Service Organizations
- Federal Network of Civic Engagement
- Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Services at UNESCO
- German Evangelical Working Group for Adult Education
- Diaconal work of the EKD
- Erlassjahr.de
- Evangelical working group for conscientious objection and peace
- Forum human rights
- Cooperation for Peace
- Network Peace Cooperative
- Platform for civil conflict management
- Support conference of the international youth community and youth social services
- Central office for the law and protection of conscientious objectors
Members
- Action Reconciliation for Peace Services (ASF) Berlin
- Action Group Peace Week Minden
- Working Group Peace (AGF) Trier
- Presentation “Ecumenism / Social Responsibility”, Evangelical Churches in Central Germany
- Peace and Environment Office of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate in Speyer
- Kokon job of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria
- Education and meeting place for nonviolent action (Wustrow curve)
- Brethren Service Geneva
- Christian Initiative and Study Center Dortmund (CIS)
- Church and Peace
- Documentation center on war events and on peace work (anti-war house) Sievershausen
- EIRENE International Christian Peace Service
- Evangelical Church of Baden Peace Office in the Office for Youth Work
- Support group of the Social Peace Service for International Understanding with Eastern Europe (SFDzV), Dortmund
- Research center of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST), Heidelberg
- Franconian Education Center for Peace Work (FBF), Nuremberg
- Peace library / anti-war museum of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg
- Peace Circle Halle
- Mutlangen peace workshop
- Peace Center Martin-Niemöller-Haus Berlin
- Acting Violence Free eV, Diemelstadt-Wethen
- INKOTA-netzwerk eV , Berlin
- ICJA volunteer exchange worldwide
- International Diaconal Youth Service of the Ev.-Method. Hamburg Church
- International education and meeting center Dortmund
- Mennonite Voluntary Service / Christian Services (MVS), Bammental
- NETZ Partnership for Development and Justice, Wetzlar
- Ecumenical information center for peace, justice, preservation of creation, work with domestic and foreigners, Dresden
- Life without armament (ORL) , Stuttgart
- Peace Brigades International (PBI) Int. Peace Brigades - Dt. Zweig, Hamburg
- International Federation of Reconciliation German Branch
- World Peace Service (WFD), Berlin
- Workshop for non-violent action Baden Learn to live non-violently eV, Freiburg
- Youth Action for Peace - Christian Peace Service (yap-cfd), Frankfurt / M.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Frey, A rich life with aftermath, 2019
- ↑ DPMAregister | Trademarks - register information. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
- ↑ DPMAregister | Trademarks - register information. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
- ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Dispute over "Swords to Plowshares": The Marketing of Peace - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Panorama. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
- ↑ DPMAregister | Trademarks - register information. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .