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The memorandum, titled “A world in disorder – Just peace in sight,” published in 2025, explores the desire to form Christian consciences under the conditions of our fractured world.
Peter Prove, director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, offered an intervention on the memorandum that included appreciative responses and some critical questions from the vantage point of the wider ecumenical movement.
Prove’s intervention was divided into four section: affirming points of convergence, addressing the central question of “protection from violence,” focusing on nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence, and reflecting on the vocation of the churches in a time of disorder.
Prove asked key questions, such as: “Can we conceive just peace in a way that does not structurally privilege state protection over justice, freedom, and plurality?”
He concluded with an invitation to continued ecumenical discernment.
“In that spirit, I hope our discussion here will not be the end, but the beginning of a deeper common discernment—one in which we listen to each other, learn from each other’s contexts, and allow the crucified and risen Christ to unsettle our certainties about security, power, and peace,” he concluded. “As we continue this journey, may we be guided not by fear, but by the peace of God, which, as the memorandum reminds us, is higher than all reason and calls us to overcome all violence.”
