The work of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns on peace is focused on identifying and eliminating the root causes of violence and conflict with a focus on specific regions, expressions of violence and areas of conflict affecting Maryknoll missioners, and U.S. aggression and national security policy (e.g. war on terrorism). The nexus of violence and poverty is clear. Unless we dedicate ourselves to building true human security for all, nations – especially poor ones – will continue to fall victim to an unending cycle of economic, political and social violence.
Maryknoll Leadership Statement on Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti
Maryknoll Leadership Statement on U.S. elections 2012: Sustainable peace and security for all
Maryknoll Leadership Statement: A call for the abolition of torture
POLICY BRIEF: Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Invest in Peace
WEBINAR: Nonviolence and the Web of Creation
WEBINAR: Human Rights Advocacy and the Legacy of Sr. Dianna Ortiz
WEBINAR: Rethinking Security in a Pandemic: No Justice, No Peace
WEBINAR: Sanctions — Nonviolent Tool or Lethal Weapon?
WEBINAR: Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Invest in Peace
August 2024 marked the third year since the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. Since then, over 76,000 people were evacuated as the Taliban took over. Evacuees were granted a temporary…
Dan Moriarty, Peace and Nonviolence senior program officer, addresses the global peace and nonviolence issues relevant to elections in 2024 and the Catholic social teachings that we hope all office-seeking candidates will conform to. Check your voter registration at www.vote.gov See our policy brief, Rethinking Security: No Justice, No Peace This webinar is part of…
With the United States elections on November 5 around the corner, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns seeks to address some key policy areas that are at stake. For the month…
Maryknoll Father Joe Towle draws on two mission experiences that deepened his understanding of nonviolence.
Watch the webinar Afghan Refugees: Three years out from Taliban takeover. August marks three years since the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover that followed. The upheaval…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns will hold webinars on policy issues relevant to the United States elections, which are only two months away.
The Institute for Economics and Peace’s index on the attitudes, institutions, and structures that create and sustain peace shows an optimistic trend from the baseline set ten years ago.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki hold their annual ceremonies memorializing the 1945 bombings by the United States in a particularly fraught year for peace.
Setting out priorities in front of diplomats and UN representatives, the new leader of Bangladesh vows continuity on two biggest policy challenges.
Benedict Rodgers writes in his column published in UCANews on Aug. 26, 2024, that Rohingyas are facing the gravest threats since 2017 when more than 750,000 were forced to flee to Bangladesh.
Tens of thousands of Maasai People living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania joined a five-day protest in August, forcing President Samia Suluhu Hassan to acknowledge their demands to restore essential social services and the right to vote.
UN warns of dire conditions in Sudan as the war between two generals drags on into its sixteenth month.
Lisa Sullivan, 30 year-resident of Venezuela and organizer of over 20 delegations to the country, shares an update since the July 28, 2024, election.
The security expedition in Haiti faces uphill battle against well-armed gangs.
Register for Haiti Advocacy Days: Stop Illegal U.S. Arms to Haiti, held on Wednesday and Thursday, September 25-26. This Sunday marks the second month since Kenyan forces arrived in Haiti…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined a group of 18 faith and human rights organizations in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlining areas of concern with the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to Haiti, specifically: that it support the development of Haitian democracy and autonomy; that it clearly state a priority for the protection of Haitian lives; and that there be concrete, public mechanisms for accountability.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 63 other organizations joined at letter urging the Senate to reject these cuts and instead safeguard and invest in international climate finance as well as critical funding for peace building, human rights, humanitarian aid, migration and poverty-focused development assistance.
Tell Pres. Biden to work for a truce in Sudan and expansion of corridors for humanitarian aid. War in Sudan between two generals now drags on into its sixteenth month,…
