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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.

Recent publication from the series Theology and Peace

Stephanie van de Loo, Reconciliation work: criteria - theological framework - practical aspects . Stuttgart 2009. 418 pages. (Series: Theology and Peace, Volume 28) EUR 39,00 ISBN 978-3-17-020717-2

Reconciliation processes involving the victim and the offender can be influenced by the reconciliation work of a third party, both from the point of view of the course that such processes take and the level of success achieved. The author describes basic approaches to the reconciliation work of third parties, but also highlights their limitations. The criteria for and the elements necessary in reconciliation work are developed on the basis of interdisciplinary dialogue. Mediation as a specific method of dealing with conflict is a central aspect of her role as a partner in inter-personal dialogue. The author draws on reconciliation initiatives implemented in Bosnia-Herzegovina to illustrate the workings of the process on a social level. Van de Loo deals consistently throughout with the issue as to what the conceivable implications are, from the point of view of defining the essence of the term and identifying its association with non-religiously motivated reconciliation work, of embedding the perception of reconciliation – itself usable only in a purely secular context – in a conceptual environment that is, by its very nature, rigidly Christian-based.

Recent publication from the series Political Philosophy and Legal Theory