Warmest Welcome
Lex Innocentium, 21st Century is a bottom-up, soft-power, moral people’s law that declares that
- War is a Crime against Humanity
- War is a Crime against the Earth
- War is a Crime against the Future
Lex Innocentium, 21st Century is based on the original Lex Innocentium (the Law of the Innocents) decreed at the Synod of Birr, Ireland, in the year AD 697. You can read the new Lex Innocentium here on this website.
You can also read about the history that inspired the new law.
We invite you to become a signatory of Lex Innocentium, 21 Century and by doing so add your support to this international call for an end to war!
We launched Lex Innocentium, 21st Century on UN International Day of Peace, 21st September 2024, at Birr, Co. Offaly and at Redwood Castle at Lorrha, North Tipperary.
Following a morning of inspiring talks and greetings at Birr, we read, signed and launched the law at Redwood Castle. We rang our Peace Bell at five in the evening, to coincide with the ringing of the Peace Bell at UN Headquarters in New York. We also planted a beautiful Oak Tree to commemorate the launch. We plan to leave a copy of the new law, with a letter to future generations, in a time capsule, together with the signatures of the original signatories.
If you missed the launch, don’t worry. You can commit and subscribe to the law here on our website, free of charge, and download your Certificate of Commitment. The more signatures we have, the more powerful our law will be as a tool in the struggle for peace. We hope to have the sign-online very soon.
We hope to post all of the talks and greetings from the launch on this website shortly. In the meantime, you might like to view a brief recording of the day, by pressing play on the video below. Please visit again to listen to our talks in full, when they are ready and maybe to sign the law online – and please follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Best wishes from all of us at Lex Innocentium, 21st Century
Lex Innocentium, 21st Century is supported by:
International Peace Bureau (IPB)
www.ipb.org
Irish Network for Nonviolent Action Training and Education (INNATE)
www.innatenonviolence.org
Global Green University
www.globalgreenuniversity.com
Seán English
seanenglish.ie