Dec 7th - Join us for a webinar! Connecting the Dots: from National Security to Genuine Security

Join us for a webinar! Connecting the Dots from National Security to Genuine Security Partners from Colombia and Korea discuss the cost of militarism in their context December 7th, 12 pm EST Click here to register   Please join us on December 7, 2021, at 12 pm EST for a webinar on the concept of security and how it is used to justify military action around the world. Speakers from Korea, Colombia, and the United States will examine the theological foundation for Christians in relation to the concept of security and examine how it plays out in each context.  This is the first installment of a webinar series entitled ‘Connecting the Dots,’ presented by the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Militarism Working Group in collaboration with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. Simultaneous interpretation will be available in Spanish and Korean.  In the season of Advent and on Pearl Harbor Day, please join us as we remember the Prince of Peace and reflect on who we are called to be as peacemakers. Speakers Rev. Deborah Lee, executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Lee is a founding member of Women for Genuine Security and the International Women’s Network Against Militarism, which seeks to hold the U.S. government accountable for the violence, sexual exploitation and the economic and environmental effects of U.S. militarism in the many countries which host U.S. bases.  The Rev. Milton Mejía is vice president for outreach at the Reformed University in Barranquilla, Colombia, and a junior researcher with Colombia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation.  He represents the Presbyterian Church of Colombia with the ecumenical platform DIPaz in accompanying the peace accord implementation process, working directly with individuals who signed on to the peace accords after having held membership in the FARC guerrilla group. These individuals have been working to develop alternative proposals for peace and sustainable development alongside some of Colombia’s vulnerable rural communities. Kiho Yi is a professor and dean of the Graduate School of Social Innovation Business and the executive director of Center for Peace and Public Integrity in Hanshin University, South Korea.  He founded a nongovernmental organization named ARI (Asia Regional Initiative) working with the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability around 2008 and also worked as the  secretary-general of the Korea Peace Forum from 2003 to 2006, focusing on peace and cooperation issues between North Korea and South Korea in the context of northeast Asian cooperation. He worked for 10 years in the Korean Christian Academy, where he was in charge of Korean political changes and global peace networks.