Nuclear Disarmament and Pope Francis' Visit to Japan
Kroc Institute Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies Gerard Powers sits down to talk with Professor Maryann Cusimano Love and Professor Tobias Winright '96 M.A., '02 Ph.D. about nuclear disarmament, the Catholic church, and what to expect during Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki in Japan from November 23 through 26.
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Meet the Faculty: Gerard Powers
Gerard Powers is director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies. He is also coordinator of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, which links 21 bishops’ conferences, Catholic development agencies, universities, and independent peace organizations in an effort to enhance the study and practice of conflict prevention, conflict management, and post-conflict reconciliation in war-torn areas. From 1998-2004, he was director of the Office of International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and from 1987-1998 was a foreign policy advisor in the same office.
Powers specializes in the ethics of the use of force; religion, conflict and peacebuilding; and ethics and U.S. foreign policy. He is co-editor (with C. Montevecchio) of Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology (Routledge, 2022) (available as an open-access e-book); co-editor (with R. Schreiter and S. Appleby) of Peacebuilding: Catholic Theology, Ethics and Praxis (Orbis, 2010); co-editor (with D. Philpott) of Strategies of Peace: Transforming Conflict in a Violent World (Oxford 2010); and co-editor (with D. Christiansen and R. Hennemeyer) of Peacemaking: Moral and Policy Challenges for a New World (1994).
Meet the Faculty: Maryann Cusimano Love
Maryann Cusimano Love is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC. She received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She serves on the Core Group for the Department of State’s Religion and Foreign Policy group, charged with making recommendations on how the U.S. government can better engage with religious actors in foreign policy. She served as a Fellow at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, serves on the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ International Justice and Peace Committee, the Advisory Board of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, and is a Foreign Affairs Editor for America magazine. She is the author of Beyond Sovereignty (Fourth Edition, Cengage, 2011), Morality Matters: Just Peace and Just War in an Age of Terror (Cornell University Press, forthcoming), and numerous articles and book chapters on religion and foreign affairs, including a chapter in Women, Religion, and Peace (USIP 2015) with a foreward by President Jimmy Carter.
Meet the Faculty: Tobias Winright '96 M.A., '02 Ph.D.
Professor Tobias Winright ’96 M.A., ’02 Ph.D. is a Roman Catholic moral theologian with a wide range of teaching and research interests. Formerly a law enforcement officer (initially corrections, then policing, and as a police academy ethics instructor) and a lay ecclesial minister (in campus, parish, and youth ministry), he wrote his dissertation on “The Challenge of Policing: An Analysis in Christian Social Ethics” and received his PhD in Moral Theology/Christian Ethics from the University of Notre Dame in 2002. He is currently working on his STL at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. His MDiv is from Duke University Divinity School, his BA in Political Science is from the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, and his AA in Liberal Arts is from St. Petersburg College.
He has received several awards both for his publications and his teaching. His prior academic appointments include: Saint Louis University (2005-2022), where from 2014 to 2019 he held the Hubert Mäder Endowed Chair in Health Care Ethics at the Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics; Walsh University (2003-2005); and Simpson College (1998-2003). Currently, he is also an Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford.