"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

Holy See Website Dedicated to Justice and Peace

November 23, 2006

The Holy See has started a web page dedicated to information about, and formation in, justice and peace.  The initiative, www.justpax.it, was launched by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, whose president is Cardinal Renato Martino.  For now, the Web page will publish information in Spanish, Italian, English and French on ecclesial documents, congresses, statements of representatives of the Church and also gives information about the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, as well as its members.

From www.zenit.org

Plowshares to Release New Academic Journal on Religion, Conflict and Peace

October 18, 2006

The Plowshares Peace Studies collaborative in Indiana will issue an
open-access, online journal devoted to the discussion of religion as both a source of conflict in the world and a source of peace.  The Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace debuts in September 2007.

A recent survey of more than 900 publications on peace and justice
revealed few that did much work on religion, conflict, and peace, and none with that sole focus. The Plowshares colleges (Earlham, Goshen, Manchester), rooted in the Historic Peace Church tradition of the Society of Friends, the Mennonite Church, and the Church of the Brethren, are well-qualified publishers for such a journal.

The Journal will address topics from any discipline that can illuminate its central concern for peace. Perspectives on peace from any faith tradition and from secular perspectives are invited. Members of the editorial board include the Plowshares professors from Manchester, Goshen, and Earlham colleges, as well as followers of Islam and Judaism.  Other board members include Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, professor of philosophy and religious studies at Youngstown State University and Lucinda Peach, associate professor of philosophy and Religion at American University.

Scholars and writers may send queries and electronic submissions for the journal to Julie Garber, managing editor, at jrcpeditor@plowsharesproject.org. Submissions for the inaugural issue are due March 1, 2007.

From Plowshares Collaborative News and Events

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