Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has challenged political and ethical reflections on peace and war. It would, however, be quite superficial to focus solely on this war in Europe and to overlook ongoing wars and other forms of structural violence all over the world. It is for this reason that Pope Francis has claimed since 2014 that we are going through a third world war but in installments. The war against Ukraine is just a part of this third world war fought piecemeal. This workshop takes this observation as a starting point to discuss the possibilities of peace in times of war. The participants come from different disciplines at the University of Innsbruck and include also a group of scholars who convened already in October 2020 in an online workshop at the Institute for Systematic Theology on “Sustainable Peace and Justice: Discussing Gandhi's concepts of Satayagraha and Sarvodaya” that was also the start of a research project on Gandhi’s concept of nonviolence that Louise du Toit, Ephraim Meir, Ed Noort, and Wolfgang Palaver conducted at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (South Africa) in 2021. This project resulted in a special issue of the journal “Religions” with the title “Nonviolence and Religion” that was published in 2022.

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