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The Journal of Social Encounters is an interdisciplinary peace and justice studies journal published online by the Center for Social Justice and Ethics at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, in collaboration with the Peace Studies Department at College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. The JSE publishes essays by authors from any country in each issue, but some essays by African authors are always included so that African scholarship on peace, conflict and social justice will become better known.

Current Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1 (2023) Extractive Politics, Conflict and Peacebuilding

Featured Essays

Introduction - Volume 7, Issue 1
Selina Gallo-Cruz

The Multiple Paths of Extraction, Dispossession, and Conflict in Mozambique: From Tete’s Coal Mines to Cabo Delgado’s LNG Projects
Ruy Llera Blanes, Ana Carolina Rodrigues, and Euclides Gonçalves

Displacement of the Rohingyas of Myanmar, Land Grabbing, and Extractive Capital
Afroza Anwary

Environmental Accountability of Extractive Industries and Community Resistance in the Wamuzimu Chieftaincy in Eastern Congo
Christian Cirhigiri

Extractivism and Conflict: Comparative Study of Serbia and the DRC
Borislava Manojlovic and Espoir Kabanga

Fixing Prior Consultation for Indigenous Empowerment
Marcela Torres-Wong and Elia Méndez-García

Working Across Organizational Lines: Grassroots and Grasstops Tensions and Possibilities
Corrie Grosse

Subsidiarity: A Central Principle for Justice, Peace, and Sustainability in Mining
Caesar A. Montevecchio

Peace Studies and the Limits to Growth
Selina Gallo-Cruz

Essays

Building Bridges Through Shared Spirituality: A Practical Theology of Fasting and Prayer Among Christians and Muslims in Mombasa
Mathew Musyoki

Césaire, Mills, & de Beauvoir in Sociological Theory
Louis Edgar Esparza

Additional Essays

Introduction: Essays on Peace Bishops
Ron Pagnucco

Bishops in the Catholic Peace Tradition
Ronald G. Musto

‘No Longer a European Export’: How the Church became truly global
John T. McGreevy

Peace Bishops: Ugandan Catholic Archbishop John Baptist Odama
John Ashworth

Cardinal Cahal Daly: A Vatican II Bishop Seeking the Kingdom of God
Maria Power

The Autobiography of an American Peace Bishop
Jens Mueller

Our New Moment: Renewing Catholic Teaching on War and Peace
Robert W. McElroy

Bishops of Peace
Daniel Philpott

Reviews

Review of Social Defense
Eli McCarthy

Review of Nelson Mandela: Peace Through Reconciliation
Gary Prevost

Review of We Are the Voice of the Grass: Interfaith Peace Activism in Northern Uganda
J.J. Carney

Review of Political Protest in Contemporary Kenya: Change and Continuities
Robert M. Press

Resisting Nazism Within Hitler’s Germany
Patricia M. Mische

Review of Working Across Lines: Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction
Emilia Ravetta

Review of Shia Islam and Politics: Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon
Christopher Anzalone

Review of Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia
Marian Azab

Review of Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization
Sachal Jacob

Review of Colonial Africa: 1884-1994
Brittany Merritt

Review of The Root of War: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers
Jerry Kendall

Review of Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances
Hamza Dudgeon

Review of Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization
Tom Cordaro

Review of The New York African Film Festival, Lincoln Center, May 12-17, 2022
Steven W. Thomas

Review of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
William Droel

Review of Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom
Kelly R. Kraemer

Review of Against War: Building a Culture of Peace
William J. Collinge

Review of Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology
Selina Gallo-Cruz

Book Discussion - Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts: Interreligious Perspectives
Maria Power and Helen Paynter

Book Discussion - Elections, Violence and Transitional Justice in Africa
Elias Opongo and Tim Murithi

Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Special issue "The Environment: Issues in Justice, Conflict and Peacebuilding"
Ronald Pagnucco