PREAMBLE
“Action for Peace and Justice” / Acção para a Justiça e Paz – AJPaz – is an association that has for objective to build a Culture of Peace, based in the Respect of the Rights of all the People, in a Parity, Inclusive and Participative Democracy, in Social and Cognitive Justice and a Balanced Environment capable of giving and to preserving Life.

We live under a patriarchal and capitalist system that oppresses, exploits, dominates and excludes an immense majority of Women and Men of the decisions about their future and that denies them their past. Of this immense excluded human mass, we want to give a privileged attention to Women, Young Women and Local Communities, wherever they are.
These identities, made subaltern – but that, in reality, are the majority of the World – are marked and attained by violence and poverty, deprived of their freedom and rights. In spite of all the difficulties, they resist every day, building alternatives and, in this way, they are peace makers.
We propose, therefore, to build, practise, support, value and make visible the alternatives that, here and in all the places, contribute to build a world where dignity, diversity, rights and freedoms of all persons, Women and Men, are considered the biggest wealth and the best guarantee of future.
“Of our feminists struggles and of those our ancestors carried out in all the continents, new spaces of freedom where made for us, four our children, and our granddaughters and grandsons, who, after us, will walk on Earth.”
(World Charter Women for Humanity)

MISSION
• To promote dialogues between feminism, peace and demilitarization
• To strengthen actions against the poverty and the violence
• To develop counter-hegemonic bonds between the local and the global

OBJECTIVES
• To build a Culture of the Peace
• To think economic alternatives based on solidarity
• To contribute to guarantee a dignifying subsistence for all persons
• Re-invent social roles and relations so that parity and equality can coexist with the right to difference
• De-construct and denounce patriarchal logics of naturalization and legitimation of violence
• Re-build the density and intensity of democracy, both in its forms and in its contents

WORKING AREAS
• Equality of Opportunities and Parity
• Human Rights Training and Education
• Communitarian Development and Solidarity Alternatives
• Voluntary Work
• Participation in Networks and Platforms
• Production of alternative knowledge

METHODOLOGY
Our methodological approach is based on principles and values that guide the forms and the contents of our reflections and actions.

They are they:
• Parity
• Non-violence
• Non-victimization
• Democracy
• Emancipation
• Autonomy
• Solidarity
• Valorisation of diversity
• Social and Environmental Sustainability
• Dignity

The “unique thought “does not only want to take from us the right to imagine Another Present and Another World Possible; it also makes our life become grey, colourless and emptied of affections. Our methodological approach wants to put again aesthetic and emotions in the centre of our social and political actions.

NETWORKING
To participate actively in networks is for us, not only a strategy, but also a fundamental human and political value of which we do not give up. Networking has to be able to cross all social movements, all territories and all the issues that are on out agendas.
We know, and we accept it with humility, that our main issues and concerns are only some of the many that mobilise and give life to struggles and resistances of persons and groups.
For all this, also our actions have to be open, shared and in solidarity, because all of them are part of the building of Another World that is Possible.

The Networks with whom we work more systematically are:
• World March of Women
• ANIMAR – National Platform for Local Development
• Collective for Peace and the Demilitarization – World March of Women
• Portuguese Coordination for Fair Trade
• European Social Forum
• World Social Forum
• Portuguese Social Forum
• Portuguese Platform of the NGO for Development
• Poro’rokas of Peace and Democracy – Transcontinental Informal Network

ISSUES AND PROBLEMS

Equality of Opportunities and Parity
Issues and problems
• Feminism, Peace and Demilitarization
• Violence against the women and young women
• The feminization of poverty and solidarity and economic alternatives
• International Solidarity and Cooperation
• Feminism and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization

Human Rights Training and Education
Issues and problems
• Human and Earth Rights
• Women Rights
• Personal and Social Development of the Women and Young Women

Communitarian Development and Solidarity Alternatives
Issues and problems
• Capacitating for Communitarian Initiative
• Personal and Social Development
• Peace and Demilitarization: to democratize and deepen the Human Security
• Sustainable and Equitable Development: solidarity alternatives

Voluntary Work
Issues and problems
• Peace and Demilitarization: to democratize and deepen the Human Security
• Parity: democratizing democracy
• Women Rights
• Feminism and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization

Participation in Nets and Platforms
Issues and problems
• Peace and Demilitarization: to democratize and deepen the Human Security
• Parity: democratizing democracy
• Women Rights
• Feminism and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization

Production of Alternative Knowledge
Issues and problems
• Peace and Demilitarization: to democratize and deepen the Human Security
• Parity: democratizing democracy
• Women Rights
• Feminism and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization