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Must Just Peace and Just War Be Mutually Exclusive?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2018

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Abstract

In April 2016 Pax Christi International and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace cosponsored the Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference at the Vatican. The conference issued an Appeal calling on the Catholic Church to make nonviolence and just peace central to its purpose, while also urging it to cease teaching or using just war theory. This roundtable consists of four perspectives from Catholic moral theologians who offer just-war responses to this Appeal.

Keywords

just warpacifismnonviolencejust peaceresponsibility to protectjust policing
Type
Theological Roundtable
Information
Horizons , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , June 2018 , pp. 105 - 108
Copyright
Copyright © College Theology Society 2018 

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References

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