"The CPN is a much-needed way to support the courageous and mostly unheralded efforts of the Church to build peace in war-torn countries from Central Africa to Southern Asia."

Bishop John Ricard
Chairman, U.S. Bishops' International Policy Committee

"The CPN is a space of exchange, encounter and discovery where we help each other understand our peace-work, generated in faith and actualized in history."

Andrea Bartoli
Community of Sant' Egidio,
USA

"CPN is another concrete way of building solidarity among peacebuilders around the world. The energy that it will bring will help us in facing the many difficult challenges of peacebuilding work in our different contexts. My hope is that we are able to bring the same energy eventually to the communities directly affected by war, violence and conflict - creating not only a network of peacebuilders but more imoprtantly a network of communities all over the world."

Myla Leguro
Peace & Reconciliation
Program Manager
CRS-Phillippines

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Conference on the Future of Catholic Peacebuilding

April 13-15, 2008
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

Conference Participation

The conference was designed for the following: (1) academics, especially theologians, ethicists, and specialists in international relations; (2) Catholic leaders in peacebuilding, lay and clerical, from Church institutions and Catholic lay organizations; (3) select foreign affairs specialists with a professional interest in religion and conflict; and (4) students. 

More than 275 participants from 28 countries attended the conference, including the Philippines, Colombia, India, the United Kingdom, Italty, France and several countries in Africa. Rosters for both international and domestic participants are below.

International Participant Roster
Domestic Participants Roster

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