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Article 9 and Article 12 Conference -- Peace Constitutions for Global Disarmament (July 16, 2009)
A year after the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War, an international follow-up event was held onboard Peace Boat at the port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica with more than 500 participants. Guest speakers from Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, the United States, Switzerland and Japan explored the value of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and of Article 12 of the Costa Rican Constitution in their historical perspectives and contemporary contexts, as well as their regional and global significance. They also looked at the links between these peace clauses and Article 26 of the United Nations Charter, which calls for the establishment of a system for the regulation of armaments with the least diversion of the world's human and economic resources for armaments in order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security. The conference concluded by adopting a declaration, proposing a UN resolution acknowledging the role peace constitutions play in promoting global disarmament and calling on government to shift priorities in the allocation of resources and decrease military expenditures to invest in financing sustainable development, human security and peace.
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