JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES/Volume 1 #2, 1989
Title: Social Justice for Poor Women
Author: Nancy S. Barrett
Discipline: Women's Studies, Religious Studies, Economics
Comment: The author addresses the impact of the welfare system
on women.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES/Volume 2 #1, 1990
Title: The Feminization of Poverty
Author: Diana Pearce
Discipline: Women's Issues, Religious Studies, Business,
Economics
Comment: The author first gives a description of poverty
trends, especially the trend toward the feminization of poverty,
then discusses unemployment and finally speaks to two urgent needed
reforms: housing and welfare reform.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES/Volume 3, #2, 1991
The essays in this issue provide resources for reflecting on Leo
XIII's Encyclical,
"Rerum Novarum."
Title: The Cost of Speaking the Truth: the Martyrs of Central
America, El Salvador
Author: Jon Sobrino, S.J.
Disciplines: Religious Studies, Morality, Business
Comment: The author deals with what is meant by Catholic
Social Teaching, "preferential option for the poor,"and
what this meant for those who died for their belief in the Gospel.
Title: Rerum Novarum: A Century of Social Teaching
Author: Thomas Shannon
Discipline: Religious studies, Economics, Business, Education
Comment: The author gives an overview of the themes found
in the encyclical and then provides a commentary on each of the
themes.
Title: The Evolving Teaching On Peace Within Roman
Catholic Hierarchical Thought
Author: Judith A. Dwyer
Discipline: Religious Studies, Education, Business, Political
Science
Comment: The essay first deals with such areas as the presumption
against the use of Force, Just War Theory, Pacifism, Deterrence
as a "Peace of a Sort", and Disarmament. It then addresses
the role of "Development" as a road to true Peace, the
relationship of World Peace and the Environment, and the need for
formal education on peace at all levels of learning.
Title: The International Catholic Peace Movement:
A Brief History
Author: Gerard A. Vanderhaar
Discipline: Religious studies, History
Comment: While giving an excellent overview of the movement
the author gives special attention to PAX CHRISTI, the largest and
most cohesive Catholic peace organization at the present time.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES, Volume 4 #2, 1991
Title: The Prophetic Role of Women in Evangelization
Author: Nadine Foley, OP. Ph.D.
Discipline: Religious Studies, Women's issues,
Comment: The author deals with several questions such as
"What is prophecy?" "What is evangelization?"
before dealing with the prophetic role of women from biblical times
to the present.
Title: Pacifism as Narrative in the Mass Media Community
Author: Rick Clifton Moore
Discipline: Ethics, Morality, Religious Studies
Comment: The author uses two films, WITNESS and WATERSHIP
DOWN, to discuss the role that community and storytelling play in
the process for the search for peace.
Title: Democracy's Imbroglio
Author: Ray C. Russell
Discipline: History, Political Science, Business
Comment: The author addresses myths connected with the term
"democracy" and then discusses the future for democracy.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES, Volume 6 #2, 1995
Title: Dulling the Sword of Justice: The Decline of
Unionism and the Rise of Inequality
Author: Martin A. Asher and Robert H. DeFina
Disciplines: Business, Political Science
Comment: The article deals with the reasons for the decline
in the role of unions and the need for all members of society to
work for political, economic, and social reforms that will decrease
the inequalities that make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Title: A Language of Peace: Virginia Woolf's Words as Catalyst
Author: Elaine R. Ognibene
Disciplines: Education, Literature, Political Science
Comment: The author describes a course in which the writer
and her students critically examine Virginia Woolf's extended essay
"using it as a catalyst for thought and dialogue about the
politics of peace and
justice visible in multicultural literature."
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES, Volume 7 #1, 1996
Title: Pacifism and Just War theory in Evolutionary
Perspective
Author: Richard Viladesau
Discipline: History, Political Science, Religious Studies
Comment: The author states in his summary that the "Just
War Theory" and "Pacifism" may be seen as corresponding
to different stages of cultural and spiritual development.
Title: The Social Implications of Abortion
Author: Dr. James J. McCartney
Discipline: Nursing, Religious Studies, Women's issues
Comment: This brief article discusses why abortion is a social
issue rather than a private one between the woman and her physician.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES/ Volume 8 #1, 1996
Title: The Violence of Love: Latin American Liberationists
in Defense of the Tradition of Revolutionary Violence
Author: Daniel M. Bell, Jr.,
Discipline: Religious Studies, Morality, Political Science
Comment: The author first presents what the Church (beginning
with Thomas Aquinas) teaches regarding violence, then proceeds to
the spectrum of violence in Latin America (violence of a political
and economic order) and finally addresses the struggle for peace
and justice and the efficacy of love.
Title: William James' "The Moral Equivalent of
War" at One Hundred
Author: John Kultgen
Discipline: Political Science, Government, Religious Studies
Comment: This is an analysis of James' essay in which the
author reduces James' claims to a few basic propositions on which
he then explicates and comments.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES: Volume 9, #1, 1997
Title: "Much Madness is Divinest Sense": Madness
and War in Pat Barker's "Regeneration" and Nora Okja Keller's
"Comfort Woman".
Author: Elaine R. Ognibene
Disciplines: Women's Studies, Religious Studies, Morality,
Ethics
Comments: This article describes the effects of war on the
lives of the men who do the fighting and on women, especially those
who, in the words of Nora Keller, "were brought in for recreational
purposes".
Title: Rescue and Victory in Just War Discourse
Author: Stephen Lamers
Discipline: Ethics, Morality, Education
Comment: This article focuses on the issues related to the
possibility of bombing concentration camps during World War 2, and
addresses the Moral Question: Rescue and Victory, and which is primary
in the lives of the leaders.
Title: The Search for Justice in an Unjust World: John MacMurray
and Criminal Justice
Author: Robert Craig
Discipline: Political Science, Morality, Ethics, Religious
Studies
Comment: The author discusses the problem in a "two
tiered justice system" where the "rich get richer and
the poor get prison."
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES, Volume 11, #1, 2001
Title: Can Postmodern War be Moral? Questioning Discrimination
and Proportion in Kosovo
Author: Joseph Capizzi
Discipline: Religious Studies, Political Science, Business,
Ethics
Comment: The article deals with the way technology has drawn
attention away from important moral issues to the new and sophisticated
weapons now available for modern warfare, and the issue of how to
protect innocent civilians from direct or indirect attack.
Title: Service, Justice, and Power at the University: A Model
for Justice Education
Author: Gary Chamberlain and Kathy Heffernan
Discipline: Religious Studies, Political Science, Education
Comment: The authors believe that colleges and universities
have the power to shape public policy. They propose a model of justice
education that combines analysis of contemporary uses of power in
American society with involvement in building a broad-based community
organization working for the common good.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES/ Volume 12, #1, 2002
Title: Catholic Social Thought and Civic Responsibility
Author: Stephen Pope
Discipline: Religious Studies, Education
Comments: Stresses the need for the study of the encyclicals
within the parish setting in order for parishioners to understand
their obligation to become involved in the civic life of their community
and to make contributions which reflect their faith.
Title: Religion and the Common Good
Author: Michael White
Disciplines: Religious Studies ( Religion. in America), Liberal
Studies Program (Comparative religion), Political Science
Comments: The article considers the role of the state in
supporting and protecting religious beliefs and the common good.
Title: Humanitarian Intervention and the Just War Criteria
Author: Scott Davis
Discipline: Political Science
Comments: The notes at the end of the this article are worth
reading even if one does not read the entire article. The article
gives a clear analysis of the subject of the "just war".
Title: Correlating Social Sin and Social Reconciliation
Author: Margaret Pfeil
Discipline: Religious Studies, Political Science
Comments: The article discusses social sin and racism as
one form of such sin.
Title: The Power of Dissent: Pierce Butler and BUCK v BELL
Author: Ashley K. Fernandes
Discipline: Ethics, Political Science, Women's Issues
Comment: This paper focuses on the dissenting Justice in the case
of BUCK v BELL and the role that the faith of Pierce Butler played
in his dissenting vote.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES/ Volume 12 #2, 2002
Title of the Article: Philosophical Ambiguities in Ostensibly
Unambiguous Time: The Moral Evaluation of Terrorism
Author: Edmund N. Santurri
Discipline: Religious Studies, Political Science, Psychology
Comment: The author begins by identifying grounds in the
so-called just-war tradition for the moral condemnation of terrorism
and then proceeds to discuss the principle of double effect, noncombatant
immunity and other problems related to this issue all in the light
of 9/11.
Title: The Challenge of Catholic Social Thought to Economic Theory
Author: Charles Clark
Discipline: Religious Studies, Ethics, Political Science,
Business, Economics
Comment: The author looks at four issues raised in rethinking
neoclassical economic theory in the light of Catholic Social Thought.
Title: Liberating Justice Education: From Service to Solidarity
Author: Suzanne C. Toton
Disciple: Education (all areas), Ethics, Morality, Business
Comment: Discusses the role of Catholic Colleges and Universities
in moving from education on social issues to "serious critical
analysis and engagement demanded to restructure a fundamentally
unjust social order."
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES: Volume 13, #1, 2003
This Volume is devoted to "Peacemakers of the Catholic Tradition"
Two Articles deal with Dorothy Day and two deal with Thomas Merton.
Disciplines: Education, Religious Studies, Business, Political Science
Title: Dorothy Day: A New Kind of Saint
Author: Robert Ellsberg
Comments: For those who are not familiar with Dorothy Day,
this is an excellent introduction to the life of someone who lived
what she believed.
Title: Active Nonviolence in Times of War: The Witness of
Dorothy Day
Author: Margaret Pfeil
Comments: This article focuses on one aspect of the life
of Dorothy Day, that of being a true pacifist and witness to the
"Sermon on the Mount."
Title: Thomas Merton: Monastic Peacemaker
Author: Lawrence Cunningham
Comments: Discusses the role of the monastery and in particular
Thomas Merton in the search for peace.
Title: Thomas Merton and the Moral Meaning of Meekness
Author: Darlene Fozard Weaver
Comments: Discusses Christian Nonviolence and its relationship
to the meekness that the gospel requires of us.
JOURNAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES/ Volume 13, #2, 2003
This volume is devoted to "Catholic Peacemakers and Politics
in Latin America."
Title: Latin American Liberationist Approaches to Nonviolence
Author: Rose Gorman
Discipline: Political Science, Religious Studies, Economics
Comment: This article focuses on three of the major liberation
theologians, Ellacuria, Sobrino and Boff, and their understanding
of what "active nonviolence" involves.
Title: Archbishop Oscar Romero
Author: Kevin Burke S.J.
Disciplines: Religious Studies, Education, Economics
Comment: The article deals with the "church's best kept
secret", the Social Encyclicals. It also addresses the conversion
of the Archbishop Romero from one whose approach to peace embodied
the "penchant for conciliation" to a person of outspoken
protest .
Title: Ignacio Ellacuria: Justice, Human rights and Salvation
Author: Rodolfo Cardenal
Disciplines: Religious Studies, Political Science
Comment: This article discusses the work of Ellacuria , his
understanding of the role of justice, the relationship between prophecy
and Utopia and the belief that salvation lies in conversion and
transformation.
The remaining articles in this volume deal specifically with Ignacio
Ellacuria who is less known here in the United States than Sobrino
or Boff. The articles deal with his view of the United States (
by Joseph Betz), and On the Dialectic of Truth and Justice ( by
Hugh Lacey).
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