Pax Christi International/Catholic Nonviolence Initiative offers seminars supporting the General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality
Every Friday this month, from 1-3 PM Rome time (7 AM Eastern/4 AM Pacific), Pax Christi International’s Catholic Institute for Nonviolence will offer a seminar to contribute to the Synod on Synodality’s dialogue on nonviolence. The sessions will be live-streamed and available for viewing later on the Pax Christi International YouTube channel.
For those in Rome: Attend in person at the Instituto Maria Santissima Bambina, Paolo VI, 21, Rome.
Registration is not required but is appreciated.
October 4 – Nonviolence: Faithful and effective (Update: Due to technical difficulties, this session will not be livecast or recorded)
- Maria Clara Bingemer, PhD, Professor of Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, consultant to the General Secretariat of the Synod
- David Cochran, PhD, Professor of Politics and co-director of the Peace and Justice minor at Loras College, author of The Catholic Case Against War: A Brief Guide
- Marie Dennis, Senior Director of Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative; past co-president of Pax Christi International (2007-2019).
- Wolfgang Palaver, PhD, Professor (retired) and dean from 2013 to 2017 of Catholic Social Thought at the School of Catholic Theology at the University of Innsbruck
October 11 – Managing conflict nonviolently
- Pat Gaffney, peace educator, past General Secretary, Pax Christi England and Wales
- Sister Sheila Kinsey, FCJM, former Executive Co-Secretary for the USG and UISG JPIC Commission, developer of the Integrity for Nonviolence Program, Catholic Nonviolence Initiative representative in Rome
- Edgar Antonio Lopez, PhD, Professor of Theology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
- Nicolás Paz, Civil Mediator, Faculty Member at Pontifical University of Salamanca, Programme Officer of Pax Christi’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative
October 18 – Nonviolent defence: Beyond war and cycles of violence
- Kanini Kimau (Kenya), founder of Horn of Africa Grassroots Peace Forum and longtime grassroots peace builder in Northern Kenya and South Sudan
- Eli McCarthy, PhD, Faculty member, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University, author of A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence
- Hardy Merriman, President of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council
October 25 – The role of the Church in nurturing a global nonviolent shift
- Pietro Ameglio, Gandhian civil rights and peace activist. a leading theorist and practitioner of nonviolent social movements in Mexico, professor at La Salle University, author of Gandhi y la desobediencia civil, México hoy
- Anna Blackman, PhD, Lecturer, in Catholic Religious Education, University of Glasgow
- Leo Guardado, PhD, Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California
- Ken Butigan, PhD, Professor of Practice in the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program at DePaul University, Executive Committee of Pax Christi’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative
I hope you will invite Lincoln Rice from the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, and Catholic Worker, to speak. We cannot , at the same time , pay for war, and work for nonviolence.