Peace Services

The service to peace is an integral part of the Church’s identity. Pursuant to this comprehensive understanding of peace, manifold peace services have developed. In addition to different forms of voluntary work, these services to peace also include development services as well as specialized civil peace services, and – under certain conditions – the military service. The perspectives of the different services occasionally are in tension with one another. For this reason, the German Commission for Justice and Peace provides a permanent forum for a constructive conciliation of these perspectives.

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Kirchliches Verständnis vom Dienst am Frieden – Dienste für den Frieden. Aktualisiertes Grundlagenpapier 2014.