Dominicans for Justice and Peace was established in 1998 as the Order’s Permanent Delegation to the United Nations. Based in Geneva, it received ECOSOC consultative status in 2002.
The Delegation supports Dominican causes by seeking peaceful solutions to conflicts, addressing the root causes of contemporary challenges, working to change structures that perpetuate injustice and impinge on the dignity of God’s children, and by bringing justice to people whose rights have been violated.
The specific objectives of the Delegation are to:
1. accompany and empower Dominicans and their partners on the ground in the defence and promotion of human rights, the care of Creation and the common good, by providing the necessary tools to work with the United Nations;
2. advocate in the United Nations for the issues addressed by Dominicans at all levels, by highlighting especially abuses in the fields of human rights and the environment;
3. provide a Dominican contribution, as a civil society actor, to strengthening the work of the United Nations and to deepening the reflection on key contemporary issues.
