Global Issues: Towards a Just Peace

Global Issues: Towards a Just Peace Seminar is based on the premise that the problems facing the world in the 21st century—from climate change, resource wars, and ethnic and religious conflict to poverty, discrimination and human rights — cannot be addressed by any one nation, religion, academic discipline or social movement, but by collaboration across boundaries of all kinds. How are these problems interwoven, and how can we craft workable solutions to them? How can actors (individuals, movements and institutions) from religious and secular communities, developed and developing worlds, science and the arts, politics and economics work together to address these complexities with compassion and creativity? And what is Notre Dame’s role in such collaboration? With the help of Notre Dame faculty from several disciplines, we will explore these knotty questions together and sketch some ways forward.