Annual Meeting

Partnership for Global Justice
2008 Annual Meeting

The Spirituality of Politics: Searching for the Global Common Good, an examination of politics at its deepest level of serving the needs of peoples and Earth as we choose leaders for the 21st century.

April 24, 2008,
Keynote: " The Spirituality of Politics: Philosophical View" Barbara Wall, PhD.

Dr. Wall is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and Special Assistant to the President for Mission. Her academic focus is in political theory and Catholic Social Teaching. She also serves as a coeditor of the Journal for Catholic Social Thought and the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies.

April 24, 2008
Fifth Annual Justice Award to Dave Robinson and Pax Christi USA

Dave Robinson is the Executive Director of Pax Christi USA and represents Pax Christi with us during our meeting days. Pax Christi USA strives to create a world tat reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war and every from of violence and domination.

April 25, 2008
Keynote: "the Spiritality of Politics: An Ecological and Legal View" Patricia Sieman, OP, JD

Sister Sieman is a Dominican from Adrian, Michigan and a civil attorney. She currently serves as the Director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence, a collaborative initiative cosponsored by Barry and St. Thomas Universities. The mission of the Center is to re-envision law and governance in ways that support and protect the well being of the entire Earth community.

Discussion of the presentations follow.