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Volume 8, Issue 1 (2024) The Environment: Issues in Justice, Conflict and Peacebuilding

Featured Essays

Introduction: The Environment: Issues in Justice, Conflict and Peacebuilding
Ronald Pagnucco

Opening Remarks for the 34th Annual Peace Studies Conference
Dr. Brian Bruess

Environmental Peacebuilding: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Ken Conca

Benedictine Life and Care for the Environment
John Klassen O.S.B.

Islam and the Environment
Jon Armajani

Essays

On Dialogue and Beyond: Positive Environmental Peacebuilding in Palestine
Elsa Barron

Guns, Bombs, and Pollution: Unraveling the Nexus between Warfare, Terrorism, and Ecological Devastation in Iraq
Hogr Tarkhani

Eco-Virtue Ethics and Anthropological Commitments of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum: Towards a Renewed Integral Ecology
Ugochukwu Stophynus Anyanwu

The UN Security Council in conflict: how does the protection of the environment related to armed conflict fit into its structural and inequal dynamics?
Gabriel Lagrange

A Short Supplemental Reading List for The Environment: Issues in Justice, Conflict and Peacebuilding
Ronald Pagnucco

Additional Essays

Remembering Johan Galtung, the ‘father of peace studies’
Kelly R. Kraemer

Review of Selected Essays on Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Rita Merhej and Bashar Rahme

Institutional Legacy as Trigger of Armed Violence Against the Police: Manifestations and the Underlying Factors in African Countries
Usman A. Ojedokun and Muazu I. Mijinyawa

Organising Civil Resistance - Understanding the Effects and Dynamics of Organisational Structures on the Outcome of Civil Resistance Campaigns
Lars Heuver

Relational Leadership and Governing: Somali Clan Cultural Leadership
Farhia Abdi

Pacem in Terris: Historical Context & the Call for Global Governance
Joseph J. Fahey

Peace Bishop: Bishop Nicolas Djoma Lola -- Bishop of Tshumbé
Stephen R. Hilbert

Review Essay: Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons
William J. Collinge

Review Essay: Mitri Raheb on Christian Zionism
Loren D. Lybarger

Review Essay: An Apostolate of Friendship: Recent Publications on the Letters and Conferences of Thomas Merton
Paul Pynkoski

Review Essay: Populism- Ensuring that People have a voice that is heard and followed
Walter J. Kendall lll

In Memory of Bishop Paride Taban
Sara Ketelaar, Fr. Peter Mbaro, John Ashworth, Fr. Joseph G. Healey, Rosanne Fischer, and William O’Keefe

Book Reviews

Review of Water Management and Violent Conflict in East Africa: Scarcity and Security in Kenya and Uganda
Ken Conca

Review of Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction
Kyhl Lyndgaard

Review of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to dismantle systems of oppression to protect people + planet
Raymond Appiah

Review of Ecomartyrdom in the Americas: Living and Dying for Our Common Home
Caesar A. Montevecchio

Book Discussion "The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives"

Review of Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalization of Armed Movements
Gary Prevost

Review of Abdul Aziz Said: A Pioneer in peace, intercultural dialogue, and cooperative global politics
Patricia Mische

Book Discussion "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination"

Book Discussion "Innovations in Peace and Security in Africa"

Review of Mathare: An Urban Baston of Anti-Oppression Struggle in Kenya
Mugo Patrick Mugo

Review of Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding
Laura Sinville

Review of John Tracy Ellis: An American Catholic Reformer
Michael Sean Winters

Review of My soul’s journey to redefine leadership
Patricia Mische

Review of Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right
Daniel R. DiLeo

Review of After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Selina Gallo-Cruz

Review of The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
Chris Hausmann

Review of For God and My Country: Catholic Leadership in Modern Uganda
John Ashworth

Review of No Guilty Bystander: The Extraordinary Life of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
Tom Cordaro

Review of Poverty, by America
Linda Plitt Donaldson

Review of Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City // Review of God and Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach
William Droel