By: Thomas Banchoff
March 2, 2015
This week's blogs from India, the Philippines, South Korea, and the United States discuss how and why social breakdown occurs and what we can do from a personal and policy perspective to ameliorate these problems, with the guidance of Catholic social thought. Both violent extremism and inequality are addressed in the blogs as different social issues with related causes and solutions.
Response: Educational Institutions as Equalizers
Gretta Castelino
March 2, 2015
Response: Human Dignity, the Common Good and Active Nonviolence
Benjamin T. Tolosa
March 2, 2015
Response: Inequality Prevents Elimination of Poverty by Undermining Solidarity
David Hollenbach
March 2, 2015
Response: Terrorism: The Persecution Against Human Dignity and God
Mincheol Kim
March 2, 2015
Response: Violence, Development, and Yearning
Drew Christiansen
March 2, 2015
Thomas Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and serves as vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the Department of Government and the Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is a co-convener of the Georgetown Global Dialogues and co-chairs the Task Force on Global Citizenship of the International Association of Jesuit Universities.
