From 4-6 May, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire joined other intellectuals and cultural figures at the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War in Tokyo, Japan. Maguire spoke on behalf of the Nobel Women's Initiative during the opening plenary session on 4 May.

We at the Nobel Women's Initiative believe that genuine peace and human security is a product of legislation such as Article 9. Peace and militarism cannot coexist.

The Article 9 Campaign demonstrates the active value of Article 9 and proposes ways to realize its potential. The Campaign links Article 9 to other international norms and institutions, notably the United Nations, whose Charter calls for decreases in military expenditure and the reallocation of limited resources to solving poverty and to protecting humans from war and violence.

Download Statements Presented at the Article 9 Conference by Mairead Corrigan Maguire: 

• Abolish War – Building a culture of nonkilling and nonviolence

• Hiroshima - Choose peace not war
  

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• Read the latest News on Disarmament

• Read more about Article 9 on our Disarmament Issues page

• Take Action for global Disarmament

• Read Thousands vow to guard Japan's peaceful charter, The China Post, 5, May 2008