There are a growing number of scholars and institutions that have come to recognize organized religion as a major factor in contemporary international conflicts. But this recognition has yielded very little in the way of in-depth analysis of the nature of religion’s role in conflict, and it has yielded even fewer results in analyzing the ways in which religion has played an equally important function in human patterns of reconciliation in these same conflicts.

The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

Voluntary counseling and testing for couples: a high-leverage intervention for HIV/AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan Africa

(2000). William Grieder—One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 453-456.

William Grieder—One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism

This study examines the education experiences of refugee youth in Canada. Using data obtained from a random sample of 91 refugee youths between the ages of 15 and 21, plus data from 123 of their parents, the purpose of this study is to identify the factors influencing their educational success. The study finds that the majority of refugee youth are doing well in the education system, with about 50 per cent expecting to complete high school and to continue to post-secondary education. The remaining 30 per cent are experiencing some difficulty finishing high school and about 20 per cent do not expect to finish their secondary education. Ethnicity, refugee camp experience, appropriate grade placement on arrival, parents' health, urban residence, and number of months in Canada are correlated with academic performance.

Factors influencing the academic success of refugee youth in Canada.

Purpose – Public economics has recently introduced the concept of global public goods as a new category of public goods whose provision is central for promoting the well‐being of individuals in today's globalized world. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which introducing this new concept in international development is helpful for understanding human well‐being enhancement.Design/methodology/approach – The paper considers some implications of the concept of the common good for international development.Findings – The concept of global public goods could be more effective if the conception of well‐being it assumes is broadened beyond the individual level. “Living well” or the “good life” does not dwell in individual lives only, but also in the lives of the communities which human beings form. A successful provision of global public goods depends on this recognition that the “good life” of the communities that people form is a constitutive component of the “good life” of individual human...

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Public Goods, Global Public Goods and the Common Good

With an equal emphasis on every word in the title - and with a distinctly American perspective - Himes and his distinguished associate editors and contributors have assembled the most thorough and authoritative assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching to date, likely to remain the touchstone volume for decades. This culmination of many years of effort by twenty stellar scholars has produced a reference work for anyone interested in understanding or studying the key documents that comprise the central corpus of Catholic social teaching. In addition to interrogations of the major documents, this volume provides an understanding of the biblical and philosophical foundations of Catholic social teaching, addresses the doctrinal issues that arise in such a context, and explores the social thought leading up to the "modern" era, generally accepted as beginning in 1891 with the publication of Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Finally, there is a review of how Catholic social teaching has been received in the United States, and an informed look at the short-comings and questions that future generations must address. By any standard, Modern Catholic Social Teaching is a remarkable work - intellectually rigorous and deeply faithful, it provides accessible and thought-provoking insights into the heart of a belief tradition that every Catholic will find invaluable.

Modern Catholic social teaching: commentaries and interpretations

1. Sex, gender and the problem of moral argument 2. Feminism and foundations 3. Particular experiences, shared goods 4. 'The body' - in context An interlude and a proposal 5. Sex, gender and early Christianity 6. Sex, marriage and family in Christian tradition 7. The new birth technologies and public moral argument Concluding reflections.

Sex, gender, and Christian ethics

Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory. Author's Response

Questions of pacifism and just war, which have preoccupied Christian thinkers from time to time over the past 1700 years, are given distinctive treatment in this book as it discusses biblical sources for the questions, builds on historical examples both of just war theory and of pacifism, and shows how Christian pacifism is a live option in many contexts. Lisa Sowle Cahill examines the theological bases of just war theory and pacifism, especially in light of the concept of the kingdom of God, as that motif illuminates Christian discipleship. Differences between the theory and just war and the practice of pacifism are highlighted in the overview of the history of Christian thought on the subject, and the inclusiveness of the ideal of the kingdom for pacifism is emphasized.

Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory

The commercialization of biotechnology, especially research and development by transnational pharmaceutical companies, is already excessive and is increasingly dangerous to distributive justice, human rights, and access of marginal populations to basic human goods. Focusing on gene patenting, this article employs the work of Margaret Jane Radin and others to argue that gene patenting ought to be more highly regulated and that it ought to be regulated with international participation and in view of concerns about solidarity and the common good. The mode of argument called for on this issue is more pragmatic than logical, emphasizing persuasion based on evidence about the reality and effects of control of genetic research by profit-driven biotech companies. A COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND ETHICAL ASSESSMENT

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Lisa Sowle Cahill

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Modern Catholic social teaching: commentaries and interpretations

Sex, gender, and Christian ethics

Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory. Author's Response

Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory

Genetics, Commodification, and Social Justice in the Globalization Era