Publications
Featured Books
Peace Weavers:
Methodologies of Peace Building in Africa
The Peace Weavers initiative is an attempt to develop various methodologies of social transformation in Africa at both national and international levels. The collection of practitioners and scholarly articles focus on five major themes: Advocacy and networking, the role of religion in peace-building, multi-dimensional approaches to peace building, economic justice, and spirituality of peace building and reconciliation. Available at Catholic and selected bookshops in Africa. (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2008).
Making Choices for Peace: Aid Agencies in Field Diplomacy
This book focuses on field diplomacy, which is defined by the role that humanitarian organisations working in conflict settings can play in transforming various factors that lead to conflict and subsequently necessitate aid. The book seeks to bridge philanthropic gaps between complexities in aid delivery, peace building, and psychosocial and spiritual response to personnel management in conflict settings.
The book includes interviews from Gustavo Gutierrez, Hizias Asefa, John Paul Lederach and John Prendergast.
The book is published by the Paulines Publications Africa in Nairobi, and is available online at www.paulinesafrica.org. The cost is $10 exclusive of postage. Orders for course work could be made in advance to limit the amount of postal charges. You can also send an email to: distribution@paulinesafrica.org.
Faith Doing Justice: A Manual for Social Analysis, Catholic Social Teachings and Social Justice
Whether we are Christians or not, we all confront the problems and challenges of violence, ethnicity, corruption, HIV/AIDS, poverty, lack of social infrastructure, unemployment, violation of human rights, you name it. How we respond to the demands of these encounters and experiences can benefit immensely from the Catholic tradition of social doctrine and the more secular tool of social analysis.
This short introductory manual is an attempt to complement the many fine yet large and complex books on social analysis, Catholic social teachings and social justice. It covers three areas: social analysis; Catholic Social Teachings and social justice. There is an important link among them and bringing them together will help the reader form an integrated understanding of faith that is linked to action.
This is a manual for formation. It aims to generate reflection and action on social, political, economic and ethical issues that affect people in their ordinary lives. Although based on a specifically Catholic tradition of social doctrine, this manual is meant for all people who feel called to action on behalf of peace and justice.
The book is published by Paulines Publications Africa in Nairobi and is available online at www.paulinesafrica.org. The cost is $6 exclusive of postage. Orders for course work could be made in advance to limit the amount of postal charges. You can also send an email to: distribution@paulinesafrica.org.
E.O. Opongo, SJ, is the Director of Jesuit Hakimani Centre and the Programme Director of JHC’s Peace building & Reconciliation programme.
A.E. Orobator, SJ, is Professor of Ecclesiology at Hekima College, Jesuit School of Theology in Nairobi. He is also the Rector of Hekima College (www.hekima.ac.ke ). His other books are The Church as Family: African Ecclesiology in its Social Context (2000); and From Crisis to Kairos: The Mission of the Church in the Time of HIV/AIDS, Refugees and Poverty (2005).
Books
Nairobi Basic Needs Basket 2006
JHC has been monitoring the cost of living in 16 informal settlements in Nairobi in a household survey since 2004. The purpose of the survey is:
- Gather evidence of instances of economic injustices and advocate for just economic relations.
- Enhance the understanding of poverty trends and poverty dynamics in specific informal settlements in Nairobi
- Diversify poverty measurement to include non-money metric measurements such as food consumption and asset based measurements
- Study the relationships among poverty, disease epidemics especially malaria and social human capital in general
- Assess the responsiveness of poverty to economic growth and income distribution
- Examine various dimensions of poverty in the context of economic policy reforms, including labour markets reforms
- Inform policy makers, donors, the corporate private sector and civil society of the status of poverty in Nairobi’s informal settlements
The findings are published annually as The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket
Previous Nairobi Basic Needs Basket Publication
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Nairobi Basic Needs Basket 2005 |
AJAN Publications
- AJAN, Linked for Life: African Jesuit AIDS Network (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2007)
- Robert J. Vitillo, Pastoral Training for Responding to HIV-AIDS (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2007)
- Ghislain Tshikendwa Matadi SJ, Suffering, Belief and Hope: The Wisdom of Job for an AIDS-stricken Africa (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2007)
Other Related Publications in which JHC made a contribution
- Kenya’s Public Debt: A Trainer’s Manual, Catholic Economic Justice (Nairobi, 2006)
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Aa.Vv., Women, Violence and Conflict Resolution: Perspectives from Eastern Africa (Harare: African Forum for Catholic Social Teaching, 2007) |
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Kenya Episcopal Conference This We Teach and Do: Catholic Church and AIDS in Kenya, Vol. 2: Inventory (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2007) |
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Kenya Catholic Secretariat Inventory of the Church’s Response to HIV & AIDS in Kenya (Nairobi: Kenya Episcopal Conference, 2006) |
The books published by Paulines Publications Africa are available or can be ordered for at Paulines Bookstores in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Lusaka, Lagos and Johannesburg (www.paulinesafrica.org).