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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1 PRELIMINARIES

1.1 Welcome to Belgium

1.2 List of participants

1.3 List of organizations of WTR and PTC

1.4 Financial report

1.5 Program

2 GENERAL REPORT

2.1  Introduction

2.2  Visit to NATO

2.3  Press conference

2.4  Belgian evening

2.5  European Parliament and Council of Europe

2.6  Petra Kelly

2.7  Keynote address

2.8  International project

2.9  Oral country reports

2.10Third World participation

2.11 Place of the V^th international conference

2.12 Future activities

2.13 Excursion in Brussels

3 COUNTRY REPORTS

3.1 Belgium

3.2 Germany

3.3 Honduras

3.4 Netherlands

3.5 Spain

3.6 Sweden

3.7 U.S.A.: NWTRCC

3.8 U.S.A.: NCPTF

4 REPORTS OF THE WORKSHOPS

4.1 Peace tax legislation in various countries

4.2 Peace tax as a Human Right in international fora . . .

4.2.1 Introduction

4.2.2 Report of the workshop

4.2.3 Addendum: letter from B. Forbes

4.3 Successes and failures

4.4 Conscience, non-violence and WTR as seen from the Third World

4.5 War tax resistance at the grassroots level

4.6 Lobbying for peace tax legislation

4.7 Religious bodies and the consular process

4.8 Court cases

4.8.1 Introductory text

4.8.2 Report of the workshop

APPENDIX 1: The proposed Dutch peace tax bill (1989)

Explanatory Material

APPENDIX 2: Questionnaire on membership drive

APPENDIX 3: Verbania, June 4, 1991: trial

APPENDIX 4: J.C. Dalmau Lliso: C.O. to taxation: a question of preferences

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