Working group on securing peace

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The Working Group Safeguarding Peace eV (AKSF) is a peace policy organization. It sees itself as a counterweight to the pacifist peace movement , namely as a “non-partisan working group of Christians to promote peace in freedom”.

overview

It was established in 1980/81 as part of the NATO double resolution by the director of the Evangelical Academy Bad Boll , Eberhard Müller , in response to the Christian-pacifist peace movement, which was perceived as one-sided (including life without armament and action reconciliation service with the slogan “create peace without Waffen “) in Bad Boll . Violence was not ruled out as a last resort in securing peace . Instead, the working group endorsed NATO's defense policy .

Müller received significant support from the theologian and journalist Eberhard Stammler . Other active people from the very beginning were Protestant theologians, politicians and soldiers such as Wolf Graf von Baudissin , Günter Brakelmann , Ingeborg Geisendörfer , Martin Hengel , Kurt Sontheimer , Rudolf von Thadden and Rudolf Weeber . Honorary members are Prime Minister a. D. Günther Beckstein , Peter Hilsenbeck and Manfred Kühn ; Edzard von Wiarda and Karsten Ewert are honorary chairmen. The working group is under the patronage of Minister of State a. D. Hans Zehetmair and Vice President of the Bavarian State Parliament a. D. Peter Paul Gantzer .

The association holds public events (with daily slogans of the Moravian Brethren ) on security, defense and détente policy and tries to influence the peace discussion in the church. There are cooperations with the Protestant military pastoral care and the Hanns Seidel Foundation . From 1981 to 1985, Eberhard Müller and from 1985 to 1999 Hartmut Bühl were responsible for the editorial responsibility for the now discontinued letter service .

Chairperson

Former chairmen of the working group were:

  • 1980–1983: Eberhard Müller and Günter Brakelmann
  • 1983–1997: Günter Brakelmann and Friedrich Vogel
  • 1997–1999: Günter Brakelmann and Hermann Gröhe

Jörg Haslinger is currently the chairman .

literature

  • Günter Brakelmann : The dispute about peace 1979–1999. Contributions to the political and inner-Protestant discussion within the framework of the non-partisan working group "Securing Peace" (= drafts for Christian social science . Vol. 28). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12078-6 .
  • Hans-Joachim Reeb , Peter Többicke: Lexicon of inner guidance . 4th edition, Walhalla, Regensburg u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-8029-6257-8 , p. 35.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Bernd Kirchschlager: Church and Peace Policy after September 11, 2001. Protestant statements and discourses in a diachronic and ecumenical comparison (= contexts . Vol. 38). Ed. Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7675-7094-8 , p. 88 f.
  2. ↑ Göttrik Wewer : The great churches and the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Heidrun Abromeit , Göttrik Wewer (Hrsg.): The churches and politics. Contributions to an unresolved relationship . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1989, ISBN 3-531-12079-4 , p. 74.
  3. ^ Günter Brakelmann : Controversy about peace 1979–1999. Contributions to the political and inner-Protestant discussion within the framework of the non-partisan working group "Securing Peace" (= drafts for Christian social science . Vol. 28). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12078-6 , p. 9.
  4. ^ Günter Brakelmann : Controversy about peace 1979–1999. Contributions to the political and inner-Protestant discussion within the framework of the non-partisan working group "Securing Peace" (= drafts for Christian social science . Vol. 28). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12078-6 , p. 11.