Institute for Theology and Peace

The Institute for Theology and Peace (Institut für Theologie und Frieden – [ithf]) is an academic facility of the Catholic Church and is administered by the Catholic Military Pastoral Care Service. At the core of its research and documentation activity lies political and social debate on issues of peace viewed from a theological perspective. It is the task of the Institute to research the ethical fundamentals of a blueprint for lasting peace for mankind and to carry the fruits of that effort into the ongoing discourse on the politics of peace.

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News

Noncombatant Immunity in the early 21st Century In collaboration with the Kroc-Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Institute for National Security Ethics and Leadership (INSEL) at the National Defence University, the Institute for Theology and Peace conducted a 3-day conference dedicated to the ‘Protection of Civilians in the Wars of the 21st century’. [...]

Ways to end the impasse? The participants of a conference by the Institute for Theology and Peace investigated the military and political challenges of state building in Afghanistan.

Center for the Ethical Education of the Armed Forces starts working In a festive ceremonial act at the ‘Haus der Kirchlichen Dienste’ of the city of Hamburg, the Catholic military bishop, Dr. Walter Mixa, inaugurated the Center for the Ethical Education of Armed Forces, which was founded on 1 March 2010

Establishment of the Catholic Peace Foundation   The Catholic Peace Foundation is currently being established in order to secure further support for the work of the Institute of Theology and Peace. Its goal is to provide the Institute with the means necessary to conduct its research on the ethics of peace.

Consolidation course: Ethics of Peace Another consolidation course on the Ethics of Peace entitled “Afghanistan as a challenge for the ecclesiastical doctrine of peace” will take place in March 2010 […]