Globalisation
Addressing the impacts of globalisation is one of the priority areas of work of the Church and Society Commission of the CEC (CSC/CEC). Activities of the CSC in this subject area take into consideration:
Decisions of the CEC 13th Assembly in Lyon, in particular:
► To deepen our ethical and spiritual reflection on the causes and meaning
of the financial and economic crisis;
► to revitalize the Christian culture of solidarity;
► to promote examples of faith-based economic praxis which provide
alternatives to current economic structures;
► to offer a space of dialogue on global concerns with partners of other
continents.
Recommendation VIII. of the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly in Sibiu:
► To launch a consultative process, addressing European responsibility for
ecological justice, facing the threat of climate change, European
responsibility for the just shaping of globalisation and to do it in
cooperation with the churches of other continents.
Decision of the CSC Plenary meeting 2010, in particular:
► To endorsing the outcomes of the 1st stage of the dialogue between
CSC/CEC and CLAI and recommendation to look intensively for
possibilities for an engaged follow up process.
and further recommendations
► To take into specific consideration the impacts of the Euro crisis;
► to continue in providing in the framework of the CSC a platform for
sharing of experience between activities of European churches in
responding to the challenge of economic globalisation;
► to explore possibilities for opening a dialogue with churches in Asia, with
particular attention to the situation in China.
The WCC project on Wealth-Poverty-Ecology is focusing in 2010 on the situation in Europe. Church and Society Commission is a partner of the WCC for organization of a European input to the process and coordination of the preparations for the European consultation on Poverty-Wealth-Ecology.
Projects:
Threats and challenges of globalisation – Churches in Europe and Latin America in dialogue
Wealth, Poverty and Ecology – a contribution of European churches to the global ecumenical process
Earlier documents to the theme:
European Churches living their faith in the context of globalisation (English, German, French, Spanish), Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches, 2005
Sustainable Development, and the Market Economy - Integrating environment in EU economic and employment policies, European Ecumenical Commission for Church and Society (EECCS), 1999 - Part 1 Part 2
The Dominant Economic Model and Sustainable Development: Are they Compatible?, European Ecumenical Commission for Church and Society (EECCS), 1995
