Global Citizenship and Democracy

This task force was launched after the 2018 IAJU Assembly in Spain, where Father Superior Arturo Sosa, SJ, emphasized that "educating people for world citizenship means recognizing diversity as an inherent dimension of a complete human life." The Task Force oversees two international projects based at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University – the IAJU Global Citizenship Curriculum Project and the IAJU Global Citizenship Fellows Program.

The mission of this task force is to organize a Jesuit Think Tank with global presence, credibility, independence, and influential capacity to strengthen the links between Jesuit universities and social centers, among other institutions and organized citizenship, so that academic work is nourished by popular experiences and, in turn, contributes to citizen education and sociopolitical action.

They are also charged with being the main contribution of the Society of Jesus to reverse the erosion of democracy and human rights in the world, through training, knowledge transfer, advocacy, and direct intervention, by strengthening the links between Jesuit universities and social centers, among other institutions and organized citizenship, so that academic work is nourished by popular experiences and, in turn, contributes to citizen education and sociopolitical action.