Nº 110, 2013/1 Promotio Iustitiae GLOBAL IGNATIAN ADVOCACY NETWORKS (GIAN) A theological foundation for Ignatian advocacy José M. Segura SJ Cycle of the mission in the Society of Jesus Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat Global Ignatian Advocacy Networks (GIAN), an introduction EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES OF THE NETWORKS Ecology Right to quality education for all Governance of natural and mineral resources Migrants and displaced people Peace and human rights With passion for environmental justice Social Coordinators of the Conferences POSITION DOCUMENTS OF THE NETWORKS Right to quality education for all Governance of natural and mineral resources Migrants and displaced people Peace and human rights Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat Society of Jesus Editor: Patxi Álvarez SJ Consultant Editor: Suguna Ramanathan Publishing Coordinator: Concetta Negri Promotio Iustitiae is published by the Social Justice Secretariat at the General Curia of the Society of Jesus (Rome) in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Promotio Iustitiae is available electronically on the World Wide Web at the following address: www.sjweb.info/sjs. There you will be able to find all the issues since 1992. If you are struck by an idea in this issue, your brief comment is very welcome. To send a letter to Promotio Iustitiae for inclusion in a future issue, please write to the fax or email address shown on the back cover. The re-printing of the document is encouraged; please cite Promotio Iustitiae as the source, along with the address, and send a copy of the re-print to the Editor. Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat 2 Contents Editorial ................................................................................. 4 A theological foundation for ignatian advocacy ............................ 6 José M. Segura SJ Cycle of the mission in the Society of Jesus .............................. 13 Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat Global Ignatian Advocacy Networks (GIAN), an introduction ....... 22 EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES OF THE NETWORKS Ecology ................................................................................ 25 Right to quality education for all .............................................. 28 Governance of natural and mineral resources ............................ 31 Migrants and displaced people ................................................ 34 Peace and human rights ......................................................... 37 With passion for environmental justice ..................................... 40 Social Coordinators of the Conferences POSITION DOCUMENTS OF THE NETWORKS Right to quality education for all .............................................. 50 Governance of natural and mineral resources ............................ 62 Migrants and displaced people ................................................ 71 Peace and human rights ......................................................... 81 Promotio Iustitiae, n° 110, 2013/1 3 Promotio Iustitiae, n° 110, 2013/1 Editorial Patxi Álvarez SJ The last two years have seen the development within the Society of what we call the Global Ignatian Advocacy Networks (GIAN). The five existing networks are centered on Ecology, Right to Education, Management of Natural Resources and Minerals, Migration, and Peace and Human Rights. Our networking around these five themes allows us to coordinate our work at an international level in areas where justice and the life of the poor are at stake. These themes are all important areas in which Jesuits are working, but that is not the only reason why they were chosen for this type of networking. They have been chosen because in different parts of the world the Society has developed initiatives and institutions that respond to these concerns and that are seeking to coordinate their efforts. As a result, we can now hope for a type of collaboration that will produce to a more effective apostolic response. The networks aspire to have at the international level a united public voice that defends the victims. This is a challenge quite suited to the Society’s vocation of universality. This issue is entirely dedicated to the Global Ignatian Advocacy Networks. The first text is a short document that explains the meaning of these networks and serves as a letter of introduction for them. The following article by José María Segura SJ offers a theological grounding for Ignatian advocacy. Segura has been reflecting on this concept over the last two years in the course of writing his theology dissertation, a part of which we present here in edited form. The second article has been prepared by the Secretariat itself. In order to develop properly, these networks require the participation of diverse apostolic sectors: university research, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social ministry, education, etc. Such collaboration among diverse sectors has need of a model that allows the diversity of their contributions to be preserved even while the full richness of the contributions is extracted. This article on the cycle of mission proposes a possible model of collaboration applicable to thematic networks that develop at the level of Provinces, Conferences, or the Society as a whole, as is the case with the GIANs. There then follow the executive reports drawn up by each of the networks. Each report briefly describes the nature of the network: its object, its finality, its plans for future actions, and possible contact persons. We believe these executive reports provide a handy tool for making the five networks known. The last five articles contain the position documents of all the networks except Ecology. Prepared over the last two years, the documents enunciate the initial consensus of the networks with regard to the apostolic challenge they are addressing. Each document Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat 4 contains a description of the phenomenon, an interpretation of it from a faith perspective, and a taking of position. The documents aim to be working instruments for individual and communal discernment in the Society regarding these themes. Perhaps they will serve as material for some community meetings or for formation sessions in our apostolic works. In the case of Ecology, the position document has already been published in a special issue of Promotio Iustitiae under the title “Healing a Wounded World,” a text that has been enthusiastically received. The article was the fruit of information gathered from many provinces. It was elaborated on the basis of reports from each of the Conferences and offers a synthesis of the work being done in all of them. We think that it offers a panoramic view of our present response to the ecological crisis and that its rich content will encourage us to continue to probe deeper into the problematic. Without a doubt, this issue number 110 of Promotio Iustitiae is the fruit of much collaboration, and we hope it will serve as a useful instrument for personal, communal, and institutional discernment. Original in Spanish Translation by Joseph Owens SJ Promotio Iustitiae, n° 110, 2013/1 5 Promotio Iustitiae, n° 110, 2013/1 A theological foundation for Ignatian 1 Advocacy José María Segura SJ We work for an incarnated advocacy, our struggle has names and surnames Rafael Jiménez, Advocacy Adviser at Centro Bonó Dominicana 1. Incarnation and Creation According to the narrative in Genesis, God created in otherness: the human being was created as a being other than God and yet capable of entering into personal relationship with God. Created in God’s image as free collaborators with God, human beings were appointed as stewards of creation. In order to let human beings deploy their creative power and exercise their mission of stewardship, God in effect steps back and “rests.” In creating, God disempowers Godself to let human beings become “empowered” by exercising their freedom. God shares the power of being, freely renouncing omnipotence in order to give responsibility to human beings. This is the greatest example and the best paradigm of empowering and of accompanying that Ignatian Advocacy (IA) could possibly find. Following God’s example as related in the Genesis story, IA attempts to be both companion and collaborator in the processes by which its beneficiaries acquire the capacities they need, and it does so without substituting for their efforts or trying solve their problems from above. In doing advocacy from this theology perspective, it is important to note that, since all power comes from God, it is in principle something good (St. Thomas). The problem, Rahner would say, is that it can be subject to misuse. In this regard, the aim of IA is to transform those structures of power that foster unequal relations, that is, structures that favor the powerful over the powerless. Finding its model in the theology of creation, IA seeks to modify the imbalances in power relations by empowering the persons on whose behalf it does advocacy. I propose here a broad understanding of Incarnation. In this conception, creation as self- communication of God is part of the Incarnation and finds its fullness in Christ as the supreme expression of God’s self-communication. In this understanding of Incarnation, God 1 This article is an adaptation from “Accompanying. A core feature of the Ignatian way of doing Advocacy,” thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the S.T.L. Degree for Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. It was co-mentored by David Hollenbach S.J. and Meg Guider O.S.F. Social