Peacemaker of the Year 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024, at 5:30 PM EST
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Join Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore for our 17th Annual Peacemaker of the Year celebration, honoring Eli McCarthy!
Eli S. McCarthy, Ph.D., teaches at Georgetown University in Theology, as well as Justice and Peace Studies. His recent book is A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence (2020). Eli also published Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy (2012).
From 2012-2020, he was the Director of Justice and Peace for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. From 2020-2022, he served as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Catholic Labor Network. Since 2023, Eli has been a Just Peace Fellow at the Franciscan Action Network with a focus on the wars in Ukraine and Palestine.
Eli is on the steering committee for the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International, and is the co-founder and Director of Programs for the DC Peace Team.
Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore is a region of Pax Christi USA, a national section of Pax Christi International. Rooted in the Gospel and Catholic Social Teaching, we witness to Jesus’ teaching and example of nonviolence, rejecting war and affirming the sacredness of human life and the dignity of the human person.