Peace-building network participants to finish book on theology, peace

Published: 2008-04-15

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) -- The Catholic Peacebuilding Network closed its final planned conference at the University of Notre Dame April 15, sending writers to complete their work on a book about Catholic theology and peace. The Conference on the Future of Catholic Peace-building brought together people on the front lines in conflict zones with each other and with academics who want to build a systematic theology of peace-building in the Catholic tradition. Coming 25 years after 1983 U.S. bishops' pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response, A Pastoral Letter of War and Peace," the project builds on the call to develop a theology and ethics of peace while facing the new challenges and opportunities that have arisen in the intervening years. Since the first conference, a small gathering at Notre Dame in 2004, the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, a loose affiliation of like-minded institutions, has held its annual conference in the Philippines, Burundi and Colombia. This year's conference April 13-15 was held at the University of Notre Dame.

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