Global Article 9 Conference's
Outcome Documents (2008):
Global
Article 9 Declaration to Abolish War
Adopted by the participants of the
Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War (May 4-6, 2008),
this declaration
has been endorsed by Nobel Peace Laureates Mairead Maguire and Jody
Williams, as well as by the Nobel Women's Peace Initiative.
Global Article 9 Conference Statement
towards the NPT PrepCom meeting in Geneva,
Switzerland (April 28 - May 9, 2008)
Global Article 9 Conference Statement to the
G8 Summit taking place in July 2008 in Hokkaido, Japan under
Japanese presidency
Abolish War - Building a Culture of Nonkilling and Nonviolence - Download Mairead Corrigan Maguire's keynote address
Message of support by Hanifa Mezoui,
Chief of the NGO Section of the UN Department of Economic and Social
Affairs
Statement by His Excellency Christopher G.
Weeramantry, Former Judge of the International Court of
Justice
Article 9 & Article 12 Conference (2009):
Article 9 & Article 12 Declaration - Peace Constitutions for Global Disarmament [English] [Japanese] [Spanish]
Message to the conference by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias
Message to the conference by US Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Message of support by the Japan Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (JALANA)
International Peace Constitutions Conference for Nuclear and Foreign Military Base Abolition. (2009):
Declaration of Manta and Montecristi [English] [Spanish] [Japanese]
Message of Support by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 1980 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (Argentina) [Video]
Message of Support by Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Catholic priest and former president of the UN General Assembly (2008-2009) (Nicaragua) [English] [Japanese]
Global Article 9 Conferencein Osaka (2013):
Global Article 9 Conference in Kansai Conference Declaration (Osaka Declaration 2013)
Other
Documents:
Global Partnership for the
Prevention of Armed
Conflict (GPPAC), Northeast Asia Regional Action Agenda, (February 2, 2005)
Lauching
Statement of the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War
(January 2007)
Global Article 9 Campaign's Letter to the UN Security Council on "Strengthening Collective Security and Armament Regulation" (November 2008)
International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Hanoi Declaration, adopted during IADL's XVIIth International Congress (June 2009)
Asia Inter-Religious Conference on Article 9 and
Peace in Asia, Final Statement(November
29-December 1, 2007)
National Lawyers' Guild, Resolution
Endorsing the Global Article 9
Campaign (2007)
World Peace Forum, Vancouver Appeal for Peace 2006: Make Peace! (2006)
The
Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century (1999)
Kawasaki Akira, "The Right to Collective Self-Defense, Arms Export, and ODA – The Three Pillars of Japan's Integration to the US Military", initiallly published in Korean in Pressian (July 16, 2015) - now also available in English, Japanese
Kawasaki Akira and Celine Nahory, "Reclaiming Pacifism in East Asia", Korea National Strategy Institute (December 15, 2014)
Kawasaki Akira and Celine Nahory, "Japan’s Decision on Collective Self-Defense in Context", The Diplomat (October 3, 2014)
Kawasaki Akira and Celine Nahory, "Quakes in Japan's Pacifism", Al Jazeera (May 30, 2014)
Kawasaki Akira and Celine Nahory, "Revision of Japan’s Peace Constitution – A Matter of Global Concern", Common Dreams (July 21, 2013)
Yoshioka Tatsuya and Celine Nahory, "Japan's Peace Pledge Under Attack", openDemocracy 50.50 (May 23, 2013)
Achin Vanaik, "Nepal as a Single State NWFZ" (2010)
Colin Archer, "Article
9 and Article 26: Twin Campaigns to Move the World toward Peace and
Social Justice", Dharma World, Volume 35
(January-March 2008)
Hsi-chieh Chien and Szu-chien Hsu, "Japan’s Peace
Constitution: A Valuable Common Asset for the Whole Human Beings",
Sekai (February 2008)
Brian Ohkubo Covert, "An
Appeal for Article 9", San
Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (July 7, 2007)
Frederic Durand, "Japanese Rainbow Gathers Tens of Thousands to Defend Article 9" International Peace Bureau (May 2008)
Ambassador Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan, "Mongolia’s
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Status and the Spirit of Article 9 of Japanese Constitution", Sekai
(July 2007)
Joseph Gerson, "Imperial
Geopolitics, China, and Article 9: Forces Driving the Possible Revision
of the Japanese Constitution", Sekai
(October 2007)
Global Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War, "An In-Depth
Discussion on Article 9 by Twenty People on Five Continents
", English
Digest of
Japanese Book: "Gotairiku
Nijūnin Ga
Katari Tsukusu Kempō 9jō",
Kamogawa Shuppan Publisher (2007)
John Junkerman, "The Global Article 9 Conference: Towards the
Abolition of War", Japan
Focus (May 25, 2008)
Akira Kawasaki, "Article
9's Global Impact", Foreign Policy in Focus
(July 26, 2007)
David Krieger, "Japan’s
Role in Building Peace in the Nuclear Age", Speech
at the Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation 50th
Anniversary Commemorative Lecture (December 2007)
Mari Kushibuchi, "Article
9 in Light of Japan's Relationship with the New Order in Northeast Asia",
PRIME, Meiji Gakuin University (2007)
Dialogue between Shinagawa Masaji and John
Junkerman, "Exploring the Global
Meaning of Article 9: What Article 9 Means to Us", Sekai (September
2007)
Michael T. Seigel, "Some
Considerations Regarding Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution",
Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics
Alice Slater, "Global Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War Launched in Japan", CommonDreams.org (June 2, 2008)
Ann Wright, "Japanese
People Still Say "No More Wars", truthout (May 5,
2008)
Download the Global Article 9 Campaign brochures in the following
languages (pdf format):
English [2013]
French
German
Korean
Spanish
Download the booklet about the Global Article 9 Campaign and its activities in 2008-2009 [English] [Spanish]
Also download the joint Global Article 9 and Disarmament for Development Campaigns Leaflet (in English) here.
Study Group on Collective Self-Defense
English resources regarding Japan's peace constitution and the right of collective self-defense
Nobel Women's Initiative - information about Article 9 and Disarmament
Всемирная
кампания по статье 9, в интересах запрещения войн
Russian Article 9 website created by Vadim Gaponenko, International
Research Center, Maritime State University.
Vancouver Save Article 9
The VSA9 was established in May, 2005 and currently has over 160
members - Canadians, Japanese, and other nationals.
Weltweite
Artikel-9-Kampagne zur Abschaffung des Krieges
German Article 9 website created by Information Centre Militarisation,
Germany
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