Joint Conference Church and Development
The Joint Conference on Church and Development (GKKE) is an ecumenical association of the major churches in Germany on issues of development policy .
The GKKE was founded in 1973 as a joint conference of the churches on development issues. It has had its current name since 1979. With it, the Catholic German Bishops' Conference and the Evangelical Church in Germany want to give political weight to the implementation of "one world" in Germany. The GKKE is a dialogue partner of the federal government, the political parties and social interest groups on issues of North-South politics and development cooperation.
The GKKE is supported by Bread for the World - Evangelical Development Service and the German Justitia et Pax Commission . The chairmanship of the GKKE is currently (as of 2018) Prelate Karl Jüsten and Prelate Martin Dutzmann ; The managing director is Jörg Lüer. The Catholic office is at Justitia et Pax in Bonn, the Protestant one in Berlin.
Together with the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), the GKKE has been preparing an arms export report from a church perspective every year since 1999 .
literature
- Jörg Ernst: The development public relations work of the Protestant churches in Germany and Switzerland. LIT Verlag, Münster 1999, pp. 95-101.
- Ulrich Willems : Development, Interest and Morality. The development policy of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, pp. 299-304, 425-435.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Churches criticize German arms exports. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Lorenz Hemicker: Arms exports: Churches criticize the “political impotence” of the federal government . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 20, 2018]).
- ↑ GKKE. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .