Just peacemakers : an introduction to peace and justice / Mary Evelyn Jegen.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Church : a community of disciples -- Way of discipleship -- Intimacy with God -- Nonexclusive, inexhaustible compassion -- Four characteristics of disciples -- Problem and mystery -- Thanks and praise -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation -- Doing the truth in love -- Eucharist and social action -- Retreat and return -- Unconventional retreats -- An order of saving beauty -- An order of seasonal hermits -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation -- The healing power of nonviolence -- A process of reconciling -- Healing -- Forgiveness and restorative justice -- Using our senses -- Nonviolence in Catholic social teaching -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation -- How nonviolence works -- Understanding violence -- The power of nonviolence -- Nonviolence and hospitality -- Nonviolence and conflict -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation -- Effective learning -- A learning rhythm -- Turn to the human --^Reading the signs of the times -- Doing the truth in love -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation -- Effective action -- The meaning of values -- Learning to clarify values -- The dynamics of conversion -- Questions and exercises for study, reflection, and conversation -- Knowing where we live -- Where we live -- Intrapersonal space -- Interpersonal space -- Societal space -- Anatomy of institutions -- Eight constitutive parts of a social institution -- Ecological space -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation -- The impact of culture -- Belonging to the earth -- Women coming into their own -- Terrorism challenges the ways of war -- Love expressed as solidarity -- Structures of grace and structures of sin -- Time and social change -- Paying attention to issues of justice and peace -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation -- Methods of social change -- Organizing for justice and peace -- Two methods of working together for social change --^Social analysis -- Imaging a preferred future -- Exercises in imaging a preferred future -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation -- Service in justice and peace -- Seven ways to work for justice and peace -- Jesus and the seven ways -- Ecumenical and interreligious dialogue -- Working with others in organized justice and peace movements -- Creativity and stability -- Questions for study, reflection, and conversation.