Cultivating Peace: DOV in Australia

Welcome to DOV (Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches seeking Reconciliation and Peace)

It has been adopted as a key focus for the work of the whole National Council of Churches in Australia. 

Specific highlights of DOV (Decade to Overcome Violence) in Australia will therefore be found in the DOV section of the NCCA site, but other features of this primary ecumenical commitment will be found in the work of NCCA Commissions, member churches, and other agencies.

WHAT IS DOV?

The Decade to Overcome Violence calls churches, ecumenical organizations, and all people of goodwill:

• To work together for peace, justice, and reconciliation at all levels - local, regional, and global.

• To embrace creative approaches to peace building which are consonant with the spirit of the gospel.

• To interact and collaborate with local communities, secular movements, and people of other living faiths towards cultivating a culture of peace.

• To empower people who are systematically oppressed by violence,
  and to act in solidarity with all struggling for justice, peace, and the integrity of creation.

• To repent together for our complicity in violence, and to engage in theological reflection to overcome the spirit, logic, and practice of violence.

What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God? 
Micah 6:8

    calling the people and churches of Australia
    to be channels of God's peace:
    in our own lives
    in families and communities
    in our nation and region
    and across the world

PATRONS of the Decade to Overcome Violence in Australia

Prof.Lowitja O'Donoghue

Sir William Deane

Paula Masselos

the Revd.Shayne Blackman

DOV in Australia is overseen by a national working group of the NCCA 

to contact DOV in Australia - ph. (02) 9299 2215 or email: dov@ncca.org.au

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall become the children of God
Matthew 5.9