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economic globalization:
- what the JPC team is doing with partners
our vision:
The use of electronic media to foster global campaigns against the Multilateral Accord on Investment (MAI) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are examples of the globalization of resistance, which is a positive development.
The second development is the emergence of new social movements - of women, Indigenous, racially oppressed and marginalized people, victims of human rights violations, people concerned about the environment, and many others - who are bonding together in the struggle for justice, peace and the protection of creation.
justice, peace and creation news
The WCC is inspired by such struggles, which it experiences as the manifestation of God's love and grace.
The JPC team seeks regular opportunities for mutual challenge and exchange with these new movements; by maintaining strong links with them the work is inspired, renewed and sustained by the commitment of the excluded for justice and a violence-free world.
Our vision has also been shaped by our Theology of Life study. The study drew many issues together, gathering and recording people's insights and experience where they were, using their symbols, images and language. In so doing, it challenged the way WCC does its theology, daring it to focus more intentionally on people's experiences, to respect the diversity of insights from different regions and cultures, to develop a new style of work that is not mainly Geneva-based or -driven.
