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Calling all peacemakers
People of all faiths have roles to play.
A founding member of Doctors Without Borders, a Jesuit who directs a center for human rights in India, and a historian of religion with particular expertise in Hinduism say peacemaking is a vocation. Would you answer the call?
 Through interreligious
dialogue, participants hoped to foster an awareness of the need for people of all faiths to promote justice and peace.
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That question was top of mind for the students, faculty, alumni and staff who gathered for Justice and Mercy Will Kiss: A Conference on the Vocation of Peacemaking in a World of Many Faiths. Through interreligious dialogue, participants hoped to foster an awareness of the need for people of all faiths to promote justice and peace worldwide. The three-day conference was sponsored by Marquette’s Manresa Project, a program that provides students with plenty of opportunities to discern their gifts and talents for meeting world needs. The project is funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc.
The conference was certainly on topic. Marquette has committed the entire year to a discussion of human rights issues. The theme for the year is Human Dignity, Human Rights: A Call to Service and events include faculty lectures across academic disciplines, a film series, Soup with Substance events, performing arts productions, awarding of the Opus Prize (see story page 12), and presentations by university guests on issues of human rights in the context of Marquette’s Catholic, Jesuit mission.
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