"The CPN is a much-needed way to support the courageous and mostly unheralded efforts of the Church to build peace in war-torn countries from Central Africa to Southern Asia."

Bishop John Ricard
Chairman, U.S. Bishops' International Policy Committee

"The CPN is a space of exchange, encounter and discovery where we help each other understand our peace-work, generated in faith and actualized in history."

Andrea Bartoli
Community of Sant' Egidio,
USA

"CPN is another concrete way of building solidarity among peacebuilders around the world. The energy that it will bring will help us in facing the many difficult challenges of peacebuilding work in our different contexts. My hope is that we are able to bring the same energy eventually to the communities directly affected by war, violence and conflict - creating not only a network of peacebuilders but more imoprtantly a network of communities all over the world."

Myla Leguro
Peace & Reconciliation
Program Manager
CRS-Phillippines

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Peacebuilding: A Role for Religion
October 7, 2008
1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
UN Headquarters, Conference Room 3
New York, NY  

Audio from this event. (click here)
For papers of each speaker, click on the links below:
Gerard Powers, Catholic Peacebuilding Network and Kroc Institute
John Katunga, Catholic Relief Services
Maryann Cusimano Love, The Catholic University of America

Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations (introduction)

Catholic News Service article from this event.

At a time when the UN is giving new attention to peacebuilding, including the role of religion in promoting reconciliation, this panel will consider the spectrum of peacebuilding initiatives of the Catholic Church around the world and lessons learned from its peacebuilding work, especially in the Great Lakes region of Africa.  The panel will also consider what a Catholic perspective can contribute to the wider discussion of religion and peacebuilding at the UN.

Participants include:
 
Gerard Powers
Coordinator, Catholic Peacebuilding Network
Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame
 
John Katunga
Regional Technical Advisor for Peacebuilding
East Africa Region, Catholic Relief Services
 
Maryann Cusimano Love
Associate Professor of International Politics
Tthe Catholic University of America. 

More information about the work of the Holy See Mission is available at www.holyseemission.org.

Sponsored by:
Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the UN
Catholic Peacebuilding Network