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Stop Killer Robots Campaign receives Golden Dove International Peace Prize

The Stop Killer Robots Campaign, of which the World Council of Churches (WCC) is an active member, has received the 2024 Golden Dove International Peace Prize.

03 October 2024

WCC co-sponsored side event at UN General Assembly tackles faith, ethics, and AI

A hybrid event on 25 September aimed at enhancing understanding among religious communities, civil society, and policymakers regarding the ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on issues related to peace, security, and the disarmament of autonomous weapons systems.

26 September 2024

Faith communities take a stand against lethal autonomous weapons

The value of human life is priceless, and decisions about life or death cannot be delegated to machines, stated a faith-based dialogue on lethal autonomous weapons at the United Nations in Geneva on 27 August.

28 August 2024

Dialogue on killer robots will offer faith-based lens

Hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and supported by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a faith-based dialogue on lethal autonomous weapons will take place at the United Nations in Geneva and online on 27 August.

21 August 2024

Event

An Interfaith Dialogue on Killer Robots

27 August 2024

Room XXIII, Palais des Nations, and online

Churches' challenges in health and healing work highlighted by global panel

The environment doesn't give to us; we provide to the environment, said Rev. Dr Stavros Kofinas, coordinator of the Network of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Health Care. Kofinas, the new moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Health and Healing, spoke on 5 March, during a discussion by three WCC commissions.

06 March 2024

Commission on International Affairs

Background document

WCC comments to the zero draft of the "Pact for the Future"

The World Council of Churches comments to the zero draft of the “Pact for the Future,” the envisaged outcome of the UN Summit for the Future, submitted on 12 February 2024 (extended version).

12 February 2024

Commission on International Affairs

Lecture - Speech

“Imagining a Safer World”, address by Peter Prove at “Churches Together South Australia”

Address of Peter Prove, WCC director of international affairs on “Imagining a Safer World” at a “Churches Together South Australia” event on 13 August 2023.

14 August 2023

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

27 June 2023

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

27 June 2023

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

27 June 2023

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence

Statement on the Unregulated Development of Artificial Intelligence by the WCC central committee, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-27 June 2023.

26 June 2023

Stop Killer Robots Campaign in front of the United Nations in Geneva

WCC joins other organizations in interfaith statement supporting Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

The World Council of Churches joined other global and regional groups in delivering to the UN an interfaith statement in support of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

17 May 2023

Statement of the inter-faith group of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, May 2023

In February 2023, members of the Stop Killer Robots coalition met in Costa Rica to consider the impact of digital dehumanisation - a process in which humans are reduced to data points, on which decisions are made which can negatively impact us. The potential of such automated harm includes injury or death from the use of autonomous weapon systems.

17 May 2023

WCC Programmes

Feature story

How to stop killer robots: Technology is outpacing diplomacy at UN talks

The year 2023 marks a decade of diplomatic debate about autonomous weapons – so-called ‘killer robots’. This decade has also seen accelerating development of such weapons systems in a number of countries. But efforts in the context of the Convention on Certain Conventional

05 April 2023

Honduran women deported from the United States use their phones to contact family and friends after they arrived at a church-run center in the San Pedro Sula airport.

WCC statement urges that “technologies are placed at the service of people rather than governments or corporations”

A World Council of Churches (WCC) statement from the executive committee, “New and emerging technologies, ethical challenges,” addresses the ways in which new technologies are transforming our world and the multiple spaces in which we live, work, and witness.

12 November 2022

New and Emerging Technologies, Ethical Challenges (statement)

The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love (Psalm 33:5)

New technologies are transforming our world and the multiple spaces in which we live, work and witness. These technologies offer us new ways to create, to heal, to communicate, and to navigate the world. However, many such technologies, while undoubtedly offering actual or potential advances in human wellbeing, have also raised concerns regarding their social and environmental impacts and ethical implications, especially in light of the rapidity of their development and application.

12 November 2022

Executive committee

Was zum Frieden dient: die Welt zu Versöhnung und Einheit bewegen

"Was zum Frieden dient: die Welt zu Versöhnung und Einheit bewegen", Erklärung der 11. Vollversammlung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) in Karlsruhe, Deutschland.

22 September 2022

Assembly