2022 Conference Papers

Click here to find the materials and presentations shared during the 2022 conference “Pope Francis, Nonviolence and the Fullness of Pacem in Terris”.

2019 Conference Papers 

Click here to find the materials and presentations shared during the 2019 workshop “Path of nonviolence: Towards a culture of peace.”

2017-2018 Global Roundtable Papers

Through five international roundtables (2017–2018), theologians and peace practitioners developed groundbreaking papers on nonviolence, covering scripture, theology, ethics, preaching, and peacebuilding practice.

🔹 Toward a foundational theology of nonviolence

🔹 Jesus’ nonviolence according to the Gospels

🔹 Nonviolence and just peace: A new moral framework

🔹 “Nonviolence is a crop that can feed the whole world”

2016 Conference Background Papers

Background and Analysis of Particular Aspects of Nonviolence – Papers commissioned in advance of the 2016 Nonviolence and Just Peace conference

🔹 Dr. Maria J. Stephan, U.S. Institute of Peace

EN: Advancing just peace through strategic nonviolent action
FR: Faire avancer la paix à travers l’action stratégique non-violente

🔹 Rose Marie Berger, Sojourners

EN: No longer legitimating war: Christians and Just Peace
FR: Ce n’est plus une guerre légitime: chrétiens et la paix juste

🔹 Dr. Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College

EN: Official Catholic social thought on Gospel nonviolence
FR: Pensée officielle catholique sur la non-violence évangélique

🔹 Dr. Ken Butigan, DePaul University and Pace e Bene; Fr. John Dear, Campaign Nonviolence

EN: Our nonviolence tradition
FR: Notre tradition non-violente

🔹 Dr. Terrence Rynne, Marquette University

EN: Contemporary scriptural exegesis ethics on Jesus’ nonviolence
FR: Une vue d’ensemble contemporaine de l’exégèse des textes sacrés et l’éthique sur la non-violence de Jésus

These five papers are collected here in one document (in English only).

Personal Experiences of Nonviolence and Peacemaking

2016 Conference participants were invited to share short reflections on their own experiences of nonviolence and peacemaking. These are original submissions and have not been edited. Each is in English unless otherwise noted.

🔹 John Ashworth, South Sudan

🔹 Fr. Peter Basaliza Mubunga, Uganda

🔹 Bishop Giorgio Bertin, Djibouti (unable to attend)

🔹 Sr. Teresa Hougnon, U.S.-Kenya-East Timor

🔹 Elizabeth Kanini Kimau, Kenya

🔹 Fr. Felix Mushobozi, Tanzania

🔹 Jean-Jacques de Christ Nganya, Democratic Republic of the Congo (en français)

🔹 Haron Njoroge, Kenya (unable to attend)

🔹 Barthelemy Ntakarutimana, Burundi (en français)

🔹 Sr. Lynette Rodrigues, Zambia

🔹 Bishop Paride Taban, South Sudan

🔹 Pietro Ameglio, Mexico (en español)

🔹 Sr. Cathy Arata, U.S.

🔹 Carmen Artigas, Chile-Uruguay

🔹 Nate Bacon, Guatemala-U.S.

🔹 Rose Marie Berger, U.S.

🔹 Ken Butigan, U.S.

🔹 Lisa Sowle Cahill, U.S.

🔹 Fr. John Dear, U.S.

🔹 Marie Dennis, U.S.

🔹 Fr. Francisco DeRoux, SJ, Colombia

🔹 Sr. Joanne Doi, Peru-U.S.

🔹 Mel Duncan, U.S.

🔹 Raed Jarrar, U.S.-Iraq

🔹 Sr. Sheila Kinsey, U.S.

🔹 Cory Lockhart, U.S.

🔹 Sr. Anne McCarthy, U.S.

🔹 Eli McCarthy, U.S.

🔹 Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, U.S. (unable to attend)

🔹 Sr. Paty Rodriguez Leal, Mexico (unable to attend)

🔹 Terrence Rynne, U.S.

🔹 Gerald Schlabach, U.S.

🔹 Sr. Ann Scholz, U.S.

🔹 Claudette Werleigh, Haiti (unable to attend) (en français)

🔹 Loreta Castro, Philippines

🔹 Fr. Pat Cunningham, South Korea

🔹 Merwyn DeMello, Afghanistan

🔹 Jasmin Galace, Philippines

🔹 Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, SJ, Philippines

🔹 Fr. Nandana Manatunga, Sri Lanka

🔹 Fr. Claude Mostowik, Australia

🔹 Fr. Ashok Stephen, Sri Lanka

🔹 Gerhard Beestermöller, Luxemburg

🔹 Bishop Luigi Bettazzi, Italy (in italiano)

🔹 Peter Bürger, Germany (English)   (italiano) (español)

🔹 Jef Felix, Belgium

🔹 Marco Ghisoni, Italy

🔹 Mairead Maguire, Northern Ireland

🔹 Giuliana Maritirani, Italy

🔹 Jean-Marie Muller, France (en français)

🔹 Nico Plooijer, Netherlands

🔹 Ana Raffai, Croatia (en français)

🔹 Wiltrud Roesch-Metzler, Germany (auf Deutsch)

🔹 Pax Christi British section

🔹 Nora Carmi, East Jerusalem, Occupied Territories

🔹 Fr. Jamal Khader, Palestine

🔹 Hind Khoury, Palestine

🔹 Rania Murra, Palestine

🔹 Ogarit Younan, Lebanon

Other Resources

🔹 The Prophecy of Nonviolence (2022), CNI executive committee members Marie Dennis and Ken Butigan have compiled several articles on different dimensions of nonviolence into one paper.

🔹 A Policymaker’s Tool for Effective, Nonviolent Strategies for Sustainable Peace, Pax Christi International, September 2021. Available in English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

🔹 Responding to structural violence exposed by Covid19, written by Marie Dennis for the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development’s Covid19 Commission, 2020.

🔹 The Good News of Peace and Nonviolence: How nonviolence is essential to a culture of peace, written by Marie Dennis and Ken Butigan, February 2020.

🔹 Call to the international community to support policies that promote nonviolent approaches to sustaining peace, Pax Christi International, May 2018. Available in English, French, and Spanish.