"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

Upcoming Conferences

Conference on the Future of Catholic Peacebuilding
April 13-15, 2008, University of Notre Dame

In April 2008, scholars and practioners will gather at the University of Notre Dame to reflect on the theological, ethical, and practical dimensions of the Church's peacebuilding work. . . (more information)

Past Conferences

• 4th Annual CPN Conference. June 24-29, 2007, Bogota, Colombia.
• 3rd Annual CPN Conference. July 24-28, 2006, in Bujumbura, Burundi.

• 2nd Annual CPN Conference. July 11-15, 2005, in Davao City, Mindanao, the Philippines.
  
• "The Ethics of Exit: The Morality of Withdrawal from Iraq," March 21, 2005, at Fordham University. 
  
• 1st Annual CPN Conference. May 17-19, 2004, at the University of Notre Dame.