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Documents

Global Article 9 Conference's Outcome Documents:

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 

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)

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)


Articles

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)


Global Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War Newsletter

 #1 (January)
 #2 (February)
 #3 (March)
 #4 (April)
 #5 (April)
 #6 (May)


Brochures

Download the Global Article 9 Campaign brochures in the following languages (pdf format):

English
French
German
Korean
 Spanish



Links

WhyNot9.org
Official website of the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War

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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