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61. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Rose Gorman Latin American Liberationist Approaches to Nonviolence: Ellacuría, Sobrino, Boff
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This paper argues that liberationist ethics can contribute method and content to religious discourse on peace and war. The christological grounding for this ethic forces us to take more seriously the will toward peace as capable of being progressively realized in the face of structural sin. Moreover, it seeks to address a Christian audience first that may then join others in prophetic denunciation of cultural attitudes that embody social sin by masking structural violence. Directives for state action may be modified through cultural actors; the state is not usually the immediate addressee. Liberationists move through the social to the political dimension, thus avoiding a tendency to absorb political functions.
62. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Joseph Betz Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. on the United States
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Liberation theology's account of how Latin America's rich (the small upper class) exploited the poor (its majority lower class) described things perfectly in El Salvador. On behalf of the crucified majority, Ellacurfa prophetically denounced, for over twenty years, the oppression of the crucifying oligarchy of El Salvador. This paper concerns a part of that denunciation, the part of it for which I, as a North American, as a citizen of the United States, have some responsibility.
63. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Notes on Contributors
64. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Kevin F. Burke Archbishop Oscar Romero: Peacemaker in the Tradition of Catholic Thought
65. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Thomas Massaro, S.J. Introduction: The Challenge of Globalization to Social Ethics
66. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Jeanne M. Heffernan Catholic Social Thought and Environmental Ethics in a Global Context
67. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Mark E. Graham Trends in American Agriculture
68. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Andrew M. Yuengert The Right to Migrate and the Universal Common Good
69. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Thomas R. Rourke Globalization: A Theological and Political Assessment
70. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
Thomas A. Shannon Rerum Novarum: A Century of Social Teaching
71. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
Jon Sobrino, S.J. The Cost of Speaking the Truth: The Martyrs of Central America, EI Salvador
72. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
Amata Miller, I.H.M. Catholic Social Teaching: What Might Have Been if Women Were not Invisible in a Patriarchal Society
73. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
Judith Dwyer The Evolving Teaching on Peace Within Roman Catholic Hierarchical Thought
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Daniel Regan The Genesis of Rerum Novarum: A Reflection
75. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1/2
Danica Lazović Religion as a Cohesive or Divisive Factor in the Process of Peacebuilding: The Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The intensification of ethnic and religious identity, accompanied by growing tendencies for creating new national states and escalations of regional conflicts, characterize the post-Cold War era. This article examines the growing impact of religion and the potential of religious activism as a tool for peacebuilding. A case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be accompanied by a historical-genealogical approach and analysis and deduction methods. By using those methods, I will answer the question of whether religion has a cohesive role (building of civil society) or divisive effect (accentuation of mutual differences and distancing of ‘other’) in the process of peacebuilding. The research results show that religious activism did positively contribute to peacebuilding but that the existent conciliatory potential is not adequately used for overcoming mutual differences and the creation of civil society, primarily due to the political and institutional framework in which it operates.
76. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1/2
Nerzuk Ćurak Memory of Oblivion and Oblivion of Memory: Culture of Denial in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Nationalist narratives in Bosnia and Herzegovina generate organized hypocrisy against the culture of memory which involves different protagonists of this society. The real name of the culture of memory of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the culture of denial. This is the very structure of its culture. By examining the perpetuation of memory into organized oblivion as a particular form of structural and cultural violence, the author will establish scholarly and axiological criteria in favor of the creation of conditions to end the culture of oblivion. In contrast to the ontology of oblivion, as an instrument of the culture of denial, this article affirms Emmanuel Levinas’s principle of the responsibility for the Other, as a relationship of pure holiness, as an a priori ethical requirement. Also, to reinforce the argument in favor of a responsible culture of memory in the face of its ideological stagnation, the author also examined critical objection to culture of memory by radical left intellectuals, in whose view culture of memory inhibits emancipation of the oppressed class. Although such argumentation should not be dismissed outright, it dances around the reality of post-conflict communities like Bosnia and Herzegovina, where war victims cry for justice, and hold it as important as their very existence.
77. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1/2
Lily Kaufmann Solutions to Displacement: Balancing Economic Immigration and Refugee Resettlement
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As displacement increases due to conflict and climate change, it is vital to find permanent solutions to the global refugee crisis. Currently, refugees are predominantly hosted in less-developed states, to the detriment of both the refugees and the communities providing shelter, while developed states with the financial capacity to provide permanent resettlement restrict the number of refugees accepted. Despite anti-immigrant rhetoric, many developed countries are dependent on economic immigrants to provide population influx and economic growth. Examining this dependency while exploring the social factors which facilitate successful newcomer integration, this paper proposes an immigration system which balances the ratio of refugees and economic immigrants to encourage an equitable system of resettlement. Linking refugee resettlement with economic immigration addresses the needs of refugees, ameliorates pressure on less-developed states currently hosting refugees and serves the national self-interest of developed countries.
78. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1/2
Carlo Calleja The Prophetic—Peacemaker Dynamic in the Light of Oscar Romero’s Theology of the Transfiguration
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This essay explores the prophetic—peacemaker dynamic using Oscar Romero’s theology of the Transfiguration as an interpretative key. I argue that there is a continuum between being a prophet and being a peacemaker and that one is dependent on, and informs, the other. For Romero, the mystery of the Transfiguration involves a journey undertaken by the community from Calvary to the Resurrection. The Transfiguration is a stark reminder that the Cross always leads to the Resurrection and that there can be no Resurrection without the Cross. Before being realised in the community, however, this is embodied in those individuals or communities that sound a prophetic voice, thus acting as peacemakers. In so doing, the community finally partakes of a foretaste of Christ’s Resurrection.
79. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1/2
Jinghua Chen Two Contemporary Developments of Kant’s Cosmopolitan Project: Habermas’s Constitutionalization of International Law and Rawls’s Law of Peoples
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Habermas and Rawls presented distinctive theories of new world order at the turn of the new century: the Constitutionalization of International Law and the Law of Peoples. Both theories aim to promote peace and justice all over the world. Unfortunately, their theories have been ignored by mainstream IR theorists. Since few scholars make a deep comparative study between Rawls’s Law of Peoples and Habermas’s Constitutionalization of International Law to reveal their crucial difference, this paper aims to fill this gap by clarifying their essential difference and preliminarily exploring how to formulate their proper relationship. I argue that Habermas’s project is a legalistic peace theory. In contrast, Rawls’s Law of Peoples is a modified form of democratic peace theory, putting hope for international peace on the improvement of the domestic political system of sovereign entities. Finally, I present a tentative suggestion to address their relationship, returning to Kant’s systems approach.
80. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1/2
Christina Beyene, Sean Byrne The Weaponization of Silence in Northern Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict: Recognizing the Voices on the Margins of Society to Leverage Local Talents for Peace