Full Legislative History
Resolution Number: 2003-C024
Title: Support Non-violent Foreign Policy
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 74th General Convention support the World Council of Churches' Decade to Overcome Violence and its work with other faith communities—in this nation and around the world—to persuade governments to embrace less violent foreign policies, to encourage individuals and parishes to pray for peace, and to take political action to oppose foreign policies that are grounded in violence; and be it further

Resolved, That the 74th General Convention call on our nation to reconsider fundamentally the foreign policy it has thus far advanced, calling upon our leaders to employ diplomacy rather than warfare.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 2003 (New York: General Convention, 2004), p. 330.