Maryann Cusimano Love

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

““Lisa Sowle Cahill’s important book provides a timely, clear, and constructive contribution to the theological and ethical debates concerning war and peace. She exposes the often downplayed, irreducible moral dilemmas that the traditional just-war and pacifist positions present, and offers just peacebuilding as a better way out of the moral bind. Cahill takes seriously the theology, practices, and agency of communities in the developing world, where most wars rage, grounding her just-peacebuilding approach in the possibilities for conflict transformation that these communities pursue and expand. This should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the development of thought and practice away from the just-war/pacifist dichotomy, toward just peace."”