| VISION
The
PAX CHRISTI INSTITUTE serves the vision statement of Pax Christi
Pilipinas:
A proactive, nonviolent, responsive, and creative
life affirming movement that reconciles and nurtures relationships
and communities
MISSION
The
PAX CHRISTI INSTITUTE is an educational establishment for
peace education, crisis intervention, conflict and reconciliation
studies and research. The goal is the achievement of critical,
constructive and creative minds that want to face the challenges
of violence and destruction as architects of a just peace
and reconciliation.Therefore, the PAX CHRISTI INSTITUTE offers
formal and non-formal courses for various professional and
academic levels of higher learning.
LOGO
(SEAL)
The
logo
of the PAX CHRISTI INSTITUTE is a stylized illustration
by the Negrense artist Rodesa Jayawon of the sculpture ‘Let
Us Beat Swords into Plowshares’ by the Russian artist
Evgeniy Vuchetich (1957).
The sculpture is placed in the United Nations garden in New
York. The plowshare symbolizes creative tools that benefit
mankind, as opposed to destructive tools of war, symbolized
by the sword, a similar sharp metal tool with an arguably
opposite use.
Its biblical origins: They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take
up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4 & Micah 4:3. |
