The Broken Rifle

Here it is at last: a summary of most of the discussions held at our Triennial Conference last December. This report is not exhaustive, as we could not obtain notes or tapes for all the scheduled events. If anybody has any written summary of one of the meetings not featured here, please send it to the London office so that it can be included in the collection of longer reports that will be available in English and Spanish mid-July.

Daily violence - Social and urban insecurity

Convenor: Ana Chavez (SERPAJ-Argentina)

Controlling Fear

Convenor: Roberta Bacic, Chile

Within the context of the WRI Triennial, a short workshop was developed on the control of fear. There was a large attendance and active participation in this workshop which made possible a dialogue and exchange of experiences on all kinds of valuable and significant activity carried out in various countries.

The workshop was divided into two parts;

War Crimes and Social Healing

Fadlitator: Roberta Bacic, Chile.

Panelists: Ana Chavez, SERPAJ Argentina: Rob Goldman, CO Support Group (COSG) South Africa; Vesna Terselic, Anti-War Centre, Croatia

Proposal for a series of consultations with armed struggle movements

The proposal is to hold a series of consultations with movements engaged ii' armed struggle or who have recently quit armed struggle. These consultations would he held in different countries, and would be documented afterwards. They would happen over a period of time, say a three-year period, to build up the trust necessary for a real dialogue.

with the approval of the IX International Conscientious Objection Meeting (Cachipay, Colombia) and the XXI Triennial of War Resisters' International (São Leopoldo, Brazil)

Rafa Ajangiz
c/o KEM-MOC, Iturribide 12-1 D,48006 Bilbao, State of Spain. Tel.: +344 415 3772; fax: +34 4479 0383 Roberta Bacic Herzfeld
Los Capullos, 0135 Villa Andalucia, Temuco, Chile. Tel: +56 45 251445 (H), +5645 215263 (W). Albert Beale
c/o Housmans Peace Resource Project, 5 Caledonian Road, London NI 9DX, Britain Reinoud Doeschot
Groene Zoom 12, 2811 VH Reeuwyk, Netherlands Thomas Hackman
Sandgatan I B 25, 00180 Helsingfors, Finland Maggie Helwig
312a Walworth Road, London SE17 2NA Marko Hren