The Development of Peoples: Challenges for Today and Tomorrow - Softcover

International Jesuit Network For Development (IJND)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856075745 ISBN 13: 9781856075749

Publisher: The Columba Press, 2007

Synopsis

Millions of people in our world today live in misery. Children in Central America scavenge in rubbish tips to survive; in sub-Saharan Africa life expectancy has dropped to forty-five, due largely to HIV/AIDS; and over a billion people around the world live on less than two dollars a day. Such poverty in a world of plenty is a scandal and a shame. In the light of this, the urgent call for action for global justice issued by Pope Paul Vl in his encyclical Populorum Progressio is as necessary today as when it was written in 1967. To mark the fortieth anniversary of Populorum Progressio, its central messages have inspired experts in development to reflect on its enduring relevance. The Development of Peoples: Challenges for Today and Tomorrow looks at issues across today s development spectrum, including poverty, debt, trade, peace and conflict, human rights, globalisation, HIV/AIDS, gender inequality, the environment, and migration. Contributors The writers come from five continents, and include Mary Ann Cejka, Peter Henriot SJ, Michael Kelly SJ, Justin Kilcullen, Peadar Kirby, Mulima Kufekisa-Akapelwa, Maria Reilly OP, and Jon Sobrino SJ. The Foreword is by Mary Robinson, the founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The essays were commissioned by the International Jesuit Network for Development, and were prepared for publication by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin.

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Essays to Mark the Fortieth Anniversary of Populorum
Progressio

Synopsis

"Populorum Progressi", published soon after the Second Vatican Council, remains one of the clearest and most challenging statements of Catholic Social Teaching relating to the unacceptable contrast between crushing poverty and related suffering on the one hand, and garish opulence and greed on the other. It inspired a surge in Catholic Social Action around the globe and gave rise to Peace and Justice groups and Catholic relief agencies such as Trocaire and CAFOD. To mark the fortieth anniversary of its publication, writers and practitioners concerned with issues raised in the document look at it again. Themes and aspects of the problem mentioned in the encyclical such as debt, trade, poverty, and human rights are revisited in light of forty years of experience. But this book is not a journey of nostalgia: the authors look at the inspiration offered through the lens of response, both then and now. They not only recall the vision and goals of "Populorum Progressio", but ask how we as a global family have fared in realising that vision and achieving these goals.

New areas which have been recognised since the publication of the document - like gender, the environment, and HIV/AIDS - are addressed in the light of principles outlined. The writers come from five continents, and include Jon Sobrino SJ (University of Central America, San Salvador), Peter Henriot SJ (Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, Zambia), Justin Kilcullen (Trocaire), Prof Peadar Kirby (Dublin City University), and Michael Kelly SJ (University of Lusaka). The foreward is written by Mary Robinson (founder of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, and former President of Ireland).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Columba Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856075745
• ISBN 13: 9781856075749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220