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Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining
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ABSTRACT
This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and scale with a large network of actors at all levels and substantial theoretical and ethical resources, the Catholic Church is well positioned to acknowledge the essential role of mining, while challenging unethical and harmful practices, and promoting integral peace, development, and ecology. Drawing together theology, ethics, and praxis, the volume reflects the diversity of Catholic action on mining and the importance of an integrated approach. It includes contributions by an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars and practitioners. They examine Catholic action on mining in El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Philippines. They also address general issues of corporate social responsibility, human rights, development, ecology, and peacebuilding. The book will be of interest to scholars of theology, social ethics, and Catholic studies as well as those specializing in development, ecology, human rights, and peace studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|75 pages
Catholic engagement on mining in conflict zones
chapter 2|14 pages
Religion and extractive industries: ethics, practice, and engagement
chapter 3|12 pages
The Church in Colombia and extractives: pastoral accompaniment using an eco-theology of peace 1
chapter 4|9 pages
The mining industry, conflict, and the Church's commitment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
chapter 6|13 pages
Dynamics between the state, mining companies, and indigenous peoples in Peru
chapter 7|12 pages
The mining struggle in El Salvador and the role of the Catholic Church
part Section II|176 pages
Mining and peace in Catholic theology and ethics