Category Archives: Promote Peace

Conscience Canada (CC) board member Jan Slakov wrote the following statement for the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) last fall, when VOW was celebrating its 50th anniversary. We decided to post it on the CC website because others may find it useful or inspiring to read. Continue reading →

On December 7th, 2010, the Canadian House of Commons gave unanimous consent in calling on the Government of Canada to engage in negotiations for a nuclear weapons convention as proposed by the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in his address to the East-West Institute on October 24th, 2008. Continue reading →

Tax me not
for the purpose of war
when the world
is in need of peace. Continue reading →

Conscience Canada

Love of Enemy

It is crucial that we stop trivializing nonviolence and refuse the false choice of “nonviolence or force”. The true choice is between the force of hatred/violence and the force of love we call “nonviolence”. Continue reading →