Links and Resources
The center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
A statement, released in November 2002, by leading American just-war thinkers, including Jean Bethke Elshtain.
Find an extensive collection of recordings by Reinhold Niebuhr on audio tape available for purchase.
Find sermons from Peter Gomes here.
This is the perspective of Gerard F. Powers, Director of the Office of International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which criticizes the current military action in Iraq using just-war reasoning.
Sojourners Community, in Washington, D.C., is a good starting point for exploring current pacifist perspectives on the war on terror and in Iraq.
This site provides an evangelical perspective on the faith dimension of the American response to Sept. 11, including just-war arguments as well as reports from and about Pacifist Christian traditions.
This site offers several resources to contribute to the public debate about the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
- Americans Hearing about Iraq From the Pulpit, But Religious Faith Not Defining Opinions: A new poll report
- Just War Tradition: A page describing the issues around of just war theory
- Religious Groups Issue Statements on War with Iraq: a compilation of statements issued by religious leaders and organizations on the war in Iraq
- Religion and American Foreign Policy: a transcript of the speeches at this forum-sponsored event (February 2003)
- Just War and Iraq: a transcript of the speeches at this forum-sponsored event (September 2002)
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Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and minister to Memorial Church, Harvard University.
Professor at the University of Chicago, leading political theorist, and author of Just War on Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World.
Writer for The New York Times, veteran war correspondent, and author of War is a Force that Gives us Meaning.
