Catholic and Religious Peacemaking Program

The Center offers courses and promotes research on the established and emerging peacemaking work done by Catholic actors and entities.

In December 2019, the Center entered into an academic partnership with the Center for Security Studies (ETZ Zurich) on worldview conflicts. This partnership was kicked off with a joint event at Seton Hall university exploring the difference between ‘worldview’ conflicts, and those based on interest and identities. The next step envisaged by the partnership was an international practitioner conference in May 2020 (together with the University of British Columbia and funded by the Swiss FDFA), Mediating Conflict between Groups with Different Worldviews: Approaches and Methods. This conference has been postponed until November 2020, given the international coronavirus pandemic, and has been supplemented by a series of online exchanges between participants. The exchanges and re-arranged conference will result in a set of papers on best practice in mediating worldview conflicts, with Zheng Wang one of the contributing authors.

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