As an agency of the Canadian Council of Churches, Project Ploughshares provides expertise and analysis to the Council and its members on peace and security issues, and assists them in shaping an ecumenical response to those issues.

In addition, as the call to pursue peace and justice is given to all people, Canadian churches have situated the work of Project Ploughshares within mainstream Canadian society and have mandated Project Ploughshares to directly engage policy-makers, in Ottawa as well as elsewhere, in developing the policies and practices that will build peace and prevent war.

The cornerstone of this policy work is a solid information base and analysis based on factual, carefully researched information. The policies and approaches that we advance are well-reasoned and as much as possible take into account opposing views. We recognize that to be effective we must actively put forward credible policy alternatives - not so much by promoting completely formed and finely honed policies, but by participating, and helping to generate, a milieu of inquiry that includes those responsible for policy-making in which policy alternatives can be proposed, debated, and refined in the presence of alternative perspectives and of policy-makers.