Torture, Terrorism, and Security Event

On April 6, 2006, the Program in Catholic Studies offered a panel presentation, followed by an open discussion with the speakers in the Ignatian College Commons.

The Panelists:
Rev. John Perry S.J.
John Perry is a Canadian Jesuit who has taught religious studies at the University of Manitoba since 1998. He holds a doctorate in theology from Regis College in Toronto and specialized during these studies in 17th century Catholic thinking on the salvation of non-Christians. Of late he has been conducting research on torture and its connection with family violence. He is the author of: Torture: Religious Ethics and National Security, which is an intellectual study of the history and meaning of torture and the clarification of what makes it immoral from an especially Christian perspective.

Dr. Albert C. Pierce
Dr. Pierce became the first University Professor of Ethics and National Security at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. From August 1998, he had served as the founding director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. From February 1985 until he assumed his duties at the Naval Academy, he had been Professor of Military Strategy at the National War College in Washington, D.C., where he taught courses in military strategy, the use of military force, civil-military relations, ethics, French security policy, and national security policymaking. Among his publications are Ethics and the Future of Conflict, co-edited with Anthony F. Lang, Jr. and Joel H. Rosenthal (Prentice Hall Studies in International Relations, 2004); and Strategy, Ethics, and the "War on Terrorism" (Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2003).

To read the text of Dr. Pierce's lecture, click here: Lecture

For more information please contact:
Carolyn Arnold
Coordinator
(203) 254-4000 ext. 3415

Dr. Al Pierce

Rev. John Perry S.J.