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It is salutary that serious academic scholars are once again turning their attention to the religious dimension of social and international conflict.1 In 1989, in a paper for a seminar organized by the Life and Peace Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, I argued that ethno-religious factors would play an increasing role in internal conflicts in the Third World.2 Since then, there has been an explosion of publications particularly on ethnic conflict, but also increasingly on the role of religion in conflict situations.3 There is a considerable literature on the wider political impact of religion in Third World contexts and increasingly on the study of religious fundamentalism. However, it is surprising that there is little systematic treatment of the Church of England and international affairs in recent studies.4
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CCBI, ‘Church Concern over Israeli Settlement’ Har Homa/Jabel Abu Ghunem, 19 March 1997.
P. Price, 1997, ‘Visit Report of Rev. Canon Peter B. Price: Visit to Hong Kong and China, 2nd-15th May 1997, as a member of the CCBI delegation’ (duplicated).
CofE 1995, ‘British Economic Priorities and the UN Social Summit’, duplicated, Board for Social Responsibility, London.
Archbishop Ndungane devoted a key passage of his enthronement address in 1996 to this issue: W. Ndungane, 1996, ‘Enthronement Charge of the Most Reverend Njongonkulu Winston Hugh Ndungane’, Cape Town 14 September 1996 (duplicated).
CofE/IDAC (1997), Submission to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group on Nigeria by the International and Development Affairs Committee of the General Synod of the Church of England, April 1997.
The issue has been debated in Synod on three occasions, in 1991, 1994 and 1997. See CofE 1991a, pp. 345-57 and CofE 1994a, pp. 328-49. For other documentation see CofE (1995), Developments since the Motion (July 1994) on the Suspension of the Nestlé Boycott and the World Health Assembly Resolution, GS Misc 453 (duplicated); CofE (1997), Promotion of Breastmilk Substitutes, GS 1253, July 1997 (duplicated); IGBM 1997; and Church of England Press Release, ‘General Synod Welcomes Study on Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes’, 18 July 1997.
For the full account: CofE (1995), Developments since the Motion (July 1994) on the Suspension of the Nestlé Boycott and the World Health Assembly Resolution, GS Misc 453 (duplicated).
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Williamson, R. (2000). The Church of England in International Affairs: 1979 to mid-1997. In: Dark, K.R. (eds) Religion and International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403916594_9
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