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Joseph J. Fahey, 2005

This primer on war and the Christian conscience begins in an imaginary college classroom as students react to news that the draft has been reinstated. “Why can’t I finish college?” asks one student. “Why do I have to go?” These urgent and personal questions offer the entry to a clear and comprehensive outline of the basic Christian responses to the problem of war. As Fahey shows, the Christian tradition has supplied a variety of answers, including pacifism, just war teaching, the ethic of “total war,” and the vision of a “world community.” In the face of these different approaches, how are we to decide which one is right? And more basically, how does one go about forming one’s personal conscience? For all who ponder these moral challenges—whether as young people facing the question of military service, or as counselors, chaplains, or teachers—this book offers an essential and practical guide.

Joseph J. Fahey, Ph.D. is a Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College, co-founder and Chair of Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, and on the national board of Interfaith Worker Justice. Dr. Fahey is a co-founder and former General Secretary and Chairperson of Pax Christi, USA and was named a Pax Christi Ambassador of Peace. He also served on the international Council of Pax Christi International. He has served at the United Nations as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) representative for the University Center for Peace Research (Vienna). He is the author of War and the Christian Conscience: Where Do You Stand?, and of Reinhold Niebuhr on Human Nature and World Peace, as well as Irenology: The Study of Peace, and Peace, War and the Christian Conscience. He may reached at joseph.fahey@manhattan.edu.

Elisabeth M. Ferrero & Joe Holland, 2005

This book first explains the historical context that gave rise to the Earth Charter. It then sketches the role of the United Nations in calling for the Earth Charter, and reviews the creation of the Earth Charter document itself, as well as the movement behind it. Finally it offers a detailed commentary on the entire document, a copy of the Earth Charter text, a grass-roots study guide, and an annotated bibliography

Elisabeth Ferrero, Ph.D. is Professor of Humanities at St. Thomas University in Miami, FL, USA. Closely involved with the Earth Charter process since 1998, Elisabeth produced the official Italian translation of Draft II of the Earth Charter and was appointed by the Earth Council to start the National Committee of the Earth Charter in Italy. Her "EARTH CHARTER" book with Joe Holland was published in Italian in 2003 in Italian by Diabasis Publishers, in 2005 by Redwoods Press, and later in Portuguese by the Paolo Freire Institute in Brazil. She may be reached at eferrero@stu.edu.

Joe Holland, Ph.D. is Professor of Philsoophy & Religion at St. Thomas Unviersity in Florida, as well as President of Pax Romana / Cmica-usa and Vice-Chair of Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice. The author or editor of 10 books, his SOCIAL ANALYSIS book with Peter Henriot has had more than 20 US printings, has been translated into many languages across the world, and was used by local community groups in the South African struggle against Apartheid. For more information, see his website at www.joe-holland.org. He may be reached at jholland@stu.edu.