Policing for Peace
Daniel Edward Young Thursday, 4 June 2009
Gerald W. Schlabach, ed., Just Policing, Not War: An Alternative Response to World Violence (Michael Glazier/Liturgical Press, 2007). 255pp. $27.95.
In Just Policing, Not War, Gerald Schlabach assembles a team of contributors to break the impasse between the just war and pacifist positions in general and the Catholic and Mennonite traditions in particular. Schlabach, a professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas (MN), himself symbolizes this hoped-for convergence; he was a Mennonite theologian who was received into the Catholic Church a few years ago. The book itself is dedicated to John Howard Yoder and John Paul II. The two core chapters are written by Schlabach, setting forth what he calls the "just policing" proposal, and the other contributors set the stage or elaborate upon implications of this proposal.
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