Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In September 2024, given the challenges presented by ongoing wars
and egregious violence, Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence
Initiative (CNI) will establish the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence,
bringing experiences of nonviolence from the peripheries around the
world into dialogue with researchers, theologians and Church leaders.
CNI understands nonviolence as a spirituality, a way of life, a spectrum
of methods for social transformation and, potentially, a universal ethic.
The Institute will be predominately virtual with a small presence in Rome.
The mission of the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence is to make
nonviolence research, resources and experience, more accessible
to Catholic Church leaders, communities and institutions in order to
deepen Catholic understanding of and commitment to the practice
of Gospel nonviolence.
