“The prophet Isaiah promises a prince of peace who will burn all the combat boots and bloodied uniforms, stoking a fire to light the way toward justice and peace.”

Participants from Latin America will meet in Guatemala next week for a regional consultation on peace and human security in the continent.

Peace cannot be separated from justice and wisdom, nor politics from relationships, a panel on conflict as a positive source of change has suggested.

That God is a God of just-peace not violence is the revelation of Christ and the real truth of Christianity, two leading church figures have said.