Steering Committee

The following individuals work as the steering committee that collaboratively guides the work and initiatives of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network:

Gerard Powers, Chair
Professor of the Practice of Catholic Peacebuilding, Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame

R. Scott Appleby
Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame

Nell Bolton
Technical Director for Equity, Inclusion and Peacebuilding
Catholic Relief Services

Fr. Rafael Castillo Torres
Director of the National Secretariat of Social Pastoral
Cáritas Colombiana
Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia

Brianna Fitzpatrick
Liaison to the United Nations, Caritas Internationalis

William R. Headley, C.S.Sp.
Professor Emeritus, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies
University of San Diego

Laurie Johnston
Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies
Emmanuel College
Sant'Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue

Michael Klein
Associate Professor of Justice and Peace Studies
University of St. Thomas

Myla Leguro
Program Director for Advancing Interreligious Peacebuilding
Catholic Relief Services

Maryann Cusimano Love
Associate Professor of International Relations
Fellow, Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies
Catholic University of America

François Mabille
Secretary General and Director of the Center for Coordination of Research
International Federation of Catholic Universities

Katherine Marshall
Professor of the Practice of Development
Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Georgetown University

Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P.
Conférence des Évêques Catholiques du Burundi

Peter-John Pearson
Director, Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office
Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference

Michael Perry, OFM
Director, Laudato Si' Center for Integral Ecology
Siena College
Franciscans International

Dan Philpott
Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame

Stephen J. Pope
Professor of Theology
Boston College

Maria Power
Senior Research Fellow
Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford

Martha Inés Romero
Secretary General
Pax Christi International