Institute for Theology and Peace

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The Institute for Theology and Peace (ITHF - proper spelling ithf) in Hamburg is a scientific institution of the Roman Catholic Church sponsored by the German military ordinariates .

The ITHF was largely founded in 1978 by Ernst Josef Nagel , built up and shaped over almost two decades. Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven has headed the ITHF since 1995 . Bernhard Koch has been deputy head since 2014.

Tasks and objectives of the institute

The focus of research and documentation is the political and social discussion of questions of peace from theological and ethical perspective. The overarching research goal is to make a significant contribution to the conception of an ethically justified peace order. The institute's task is to research the ethical foundations of the human peace order and to incorporate it into the current peace policy discourse .

The institute pursues the goal of developing a rational peace ethic that puts politics in the service of peace and people. The institute works on two levels of research: tradition and the present. On the one hand, orientation is sought in the theological and philosophical tradition, on the other hand, one deals with the research area of ​​the current problem areas of peace and security policy with projects on torture, the fight against terrorism as well as crisis and conflict areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq or Congo.

The institute offers training for military chaplains . In 2010 the center for ethical education in the armed forces (zebis) was established at the institute for this purpose . In this center, the military chaplains are trained for their task of ethical education for soldiers.

The institute's staff are active in a large number of church, ecumenical and scientific commissions and bodies, such as the German Commission Justitia et Pax , the German Peace Research Foundation (DSF), the working groups of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) and the Working Group of Christian Churches (ACK). In this way the Institute fulfills its obligation to advise the Church. It also contributes to the development and continuation of an ecumenical doctrine of peace.

The library contains 190,000 titles.

Research projects

  • tradition
  • Counter-Terrorism Ethics (project leader: Hajo Schmidt)
  • Peacebuilding, e.g. B. in Afghanistan
  • Islamic Peace Ethics (project leader Heydar Shadi)
  • Limit violence. On the further development of international humanitarian law (project leader: Bernhard Koch)
  • Normative foundations of EU security policy from a Catholic perspective (project leader Marco Schrage)
  • Cyberethics / Cyberwar (project leader Philipp v. Wussow)

Publications

  • "Theology and Peace" series (until 2013, 44 volumes, Kohlhammer-Verlag)
  • Series "Contributions to Peace Ethics" (until 2011, 44 volumes, Kohlhammer-Verlag)
  • both series are continued in the series "Studies on Peace Ethics" at Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft and Aschendorff Verlagsgesellschaft
  • "Political Philosophy and Legal Theory" series (Frommann-Holzboog-Verlag)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Helmut Zenz: Ernst Josef Nagel (1931–2001) - Catholic Peace Ethicist , accessed on December 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Peace ethical tradition - ITHF. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Current problem areas - ITHF. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Online catalog of the library
  5. ↑ http://www.ithf.de/index.php/de/publikationen