Catholic

  • Global Interreligious Peacebuilding

    Episode 27
    Published: 2020-10-30
    Length: 44:11
    Hosts: Atalia Omer

    Professor Atalia Omer moderates a conversation highlighting the successes and challenges of interreligious peacebuilding around the world. Guests include Nell Bolton, a 2003 graduate of the Kroc Institute’s Master’s program who now works as the Senior Technical Advisor for Justice and Peacebuilding with Catholic Relief Services; Rashied Omar, a 2001 Master’s alumni and Research Scholar of Islamic Studies and Peacebuilding here at Notre Dame; and Hippolyt Pul, Executive Director at the Institute of Peace and Development in Ghana.

    This episode was recorded at the November 2019 Building Sustainable Peace conference.

    Topics: Alumni, Catholic, Islam, Peacebuilding, Religion

  • Nuclear Disarmament and Pope Francis’ Visit to Japan

    Episode 8
    Published: 2019-11-21
    Length: 23:53
    Hosts: Jerry Powers

    Kroc Institute Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies Jerry Powers sits down to talk with Professor Maryann Cusimano Love and Professor Tobias Winright about nuclear disarmament, the Catholic church, and what to expect during Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki in Japan from November 23 to 26.

    Topics: Catholic, Nuclear disarmament

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining

    Episode 52
    Published: 2022-02-15
    Length: 34:13
    Hosts: David Cortright

    David Cortright, Professor Emeritus of the Practice at the Kroc Institute and Editor of the Kroc Institute’s Peace Policy publication sits down to talk with authors from the latest issue. This issue features reflections drawn from the new book, Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology published by Routledge in January.

    Guests include one of the co-editors of the book and the Assistant Director of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, Caesar Montevecchio; Father Rigobert Minani, S.J., head of research for the Peace, Human Rights, Democracy, and Good Governance Department at the Centre d’Etude Pour l’Action Sociale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and team leader for the Ecclesial Network of the Congo Basin Forest; and Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, and Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue.

    You can read all articles from this issue at peacepolicy.nd.edu.

    Topics: Catholic, Environment, Peacebuilding, Peace Policy

  • The Peace Process and the Pandemic in South Sudan

    Episode 22
    Published: 2020-06-26
    Length: 43:39
    Hosts: Susan Page

    This episode is part of a series examining the mutual impacts between the COVID-19 pandemic and Catholic peacebuilding, and focuses on the way the pandemic is affecting the peace process in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, and the role of the Catholic community in that process. A conversation between Former Ambassador Susan Page, Fr. James Oyet Latansio, and Andrea Bartoli, produced in partnership with the Catholic Peacebuilding Network.

     

    Topics: Catholic, Coronavirus, Peacebuilding, South Sudan