Peace and Reconciliation
The need for healing and reconciliation is no simple matter involving, as it does, truth, transparency and a willingness to acknowledge the sins of the past.Jesuit schools and ministries have been called to commit to the mission of reconciliation (with God, with ourselves, between conflicting parties, and with creation). The need for healing and reconciliation in a world suffering from violence and injustice, therefore, also represents a call for us to commit to this mission with our resources in research and education.
TASKFORCE FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
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Binoy Jacob SJ
Loyola Institute for Peace and International RelationsCHAIR -
Jacques Haers JS
BelguimMember -
Alma Marie O. Salvador
Ateneo de ManilaMEMBER -
John Meehan
University of TorontoMEMBER -
Gordon Rixon SJ
Regis CollegeMEMBER -
Elias Omondi Opongo SJ
Hekima Institute for Peace StudiesMEMBER -
Andria Wisler
Georgetown UniversityMEMBER -
Elias Lopez SJ
SpainMEMBER -
Simon Koo
The Beijing CenterMEMBER -
Ana Paulina Quintero Toscano
ITESOMEMBER -
Wigger Molenaar SJ
MEMBER -
Clara Martínez
Universidad Pontificia ComillasMEMBER
Objective
The IAJU Task Force on Peace and Reconciliation focuses on their call by initiating and sustaining processes of shared discernment on the role of Jesuit universities and centers of tertiary learning in the mission of reconciliation for the Society of Jesus:
- Mapping and networking among existing initiatives and best practices on reconciliation in the context of Jesuit institutions;
- Providing tools to inspire sensitive and committed students in the mission of reconciliation and conflict transformation;
- Promoting transdisciplinary approaches to research, education and transfer of knowledge with those victims whom we serve;
- Stimulating the creative and critical interactions of Jesuit universities and centers of higher learning with other actors in the field of reconciliation;
- Inviting Jesuit universities and centers of higher learning to coherently reflectwithin their own organizations on reconciliation;
- Exploring the role of Ignatian spirituality in the process of reconciliation;
- Building learning communities of practice to improve our concrete actions (including advocacy) at the service of reconciliation
Join Us
If you are interested in the initiatives of this Task Force and you feel identified with the mission of reconciliation then you are one of us, join the Reconciliation mission of the Society of Jesus!
