Justice and Peace

Please send your recommendations to the Web Editor and also check under the moral theology/ethics page (for sites such as the excellent Ethics Update where one can find "hunger" links etc.)

Current Topic Web sites with links Organizations

The pending war in Iraq: Catholic Church statements on Iraq
[from the United States Bishops' Conference site]; Archbishops’ Joint Statement on Iraq released 20 February 2003. The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, have issued a statement concerning Iraq; Prime Minister Tony Blair Meets with U.S. Religious Leaders Seeking A Peaceful Alternative to War
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia speech on Iraq; worth checking: the Campaign for Peace and Democracy Web Site

The impending famine in southern Africa
Major Appeal Launched for Southern Africa

The Violence in and around Israel and Palestine: an important issue of justice and peace today.

Results for The Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: a collection of media articles on this theme from the Independent Media site

Churches for Middle East Peace: "Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is an ecumenical working group of Christian organizations. CMEP began its work in 1984 out of the conviction that the policy perspectives and long Middle East experience of our member bodies can play a useful role in the public arena. "

Rabbi warns of Israel's 'tragic path': a BBC report on comments from Britain's Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks

Spotlight: the Middle East: reports and opinions from Christian Aid, a British based charity doing relief work in the Middle East

Human rights watch report on the incursion in Jenin

Uri Avnery articles: The articles of an Israeli journalist and peace activist who writes eloquently on the situation in Palestine and Israel. Also contains documents and discussions of documents on the Middle Eastern conflict

BBC World News: Middle East: reports from the BBC website

Le Monde Dossier: For readers of French, an excellent resource for reflecting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Palestine: a list of articles in the Religion-on-line archive on the Middle East and religion from Jewish and Christian writers

Invisible Palestinians: Ideology and Reality in Israel: an article from the above mentioned archive from 1987 by the respected theologian Rosemary Radford Reuther which still retains its actuality

The Terror Attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and their aftermath

Declaration of the journal Concilium: A response to the Sept. 11 attacks from the theologians of the journal Concilium

Web Sites with references to documents and teachings

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Here you will find the most comprehensive collection of translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. Over 300 different language versions are available in HTML, PDF and graphical forms.

The Human Rights Library: A major resource at the Univ. of Minnesota with human rights documents and materials (over 6900 at the moment, from treaties, UN documents, etc.) It also includes search engines on human rights materials *

Jubilee 2000 Coalition: to cancel unpayable debt

Access to Catholic Social Teaching: Robert Waldrop's site which contains over 300 pages and 1700 links!**
and includes a section on Catholic Church documents relating to social justice

Woodstock Theology Center Ethics sites

Social justice: A large collection of links at the "Resources for Catholic Educators" site

Justice links: At the Theology Library web site (scroll down to "Justice" section).

Poverty, Hunger & Development: links, including several on Amartya Sen

Working Group on Restorative Justice: from the Boston Theological Institute

The Churches' Peace Education Programm

Irishpeace.com: contains many good links

Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice: from the Irish Jesuits
includes a Theological Reflection section with articles.
other Jesuit Faith and Justice Apostolates

Prosperity with a Purpose: A Letter from the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference on "Christian faith and values in a time of rapid economic growth"

Organizations:

The United Nations Unicef: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
has many interesting topics
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Amnesty International: an indispensable voice
The Irish section

One World: "OneWorld is a community of over 1250 organisations working for social justice."

Human Rights Watch: excellent reporting on human rights violations

Trocaire: The Irish world relief organization. Their site also has links to other organizations.

Concern: "engages in long term development work, responds to emergency situations, and undertakes development education and advocacy on those aspects of world poverty which require national or international action."

Faith based organizations fighting for social justice: ** a list of good links

Africa Faith and Justice Network: "The Africa Faith and Justice Network is a Catholic network of individual and group members focused on Africa and the experience of its people. AFJN is committed in faith to collaborate in the task of transforming United States mentality and policy on Africa. It seeks to be an instrument of education and advocacy on behalf of justice for Africa"

New Internationalist magazine: a journal concerned with international issues of justice

The Glencree Centre for Reconciliation: An Irish centre of reconciliation based in the Wicklow mountains

Burma Action — Ireland: Developing awareness of the situation in Burma

"You only love God as much as you love the person you love the least.": Dorothy Day

"One righteousness subdues hundreds of evils": Chinese saying

"If you want to be a follower of Jesus, you better learn to look good on wood": Dan Berrigan, SJ