IGWEBUIKE: African Journal of Arts and Humanities

The issue of lack of relative peace and social justice is very much evident in our society, especially in the domain of African political and religious congruence where there are motivated violence and conflicts. And, it is the very nature of the human person to desire peace and justice. In fact, this is one of clauses of the justification of the establishment of law and the institution of government in human society. It is on the value for the attainment of harmonious living amongst humans that issues of peace are envisaged for the realization of Integral Human Development (IHD). But, the contrary is highly witnessed, all because of conflicting of human interests. In all these, without the value of peace and justice there will be no authentic development. This paper poses to ascertain the relevance of building national development policies and strategies for the attainment of peace and justice on the values of human ‘Charity in Truth’ in the catholic Social Teaching. In an attempt to contextualize the thesis, an evaluation is made on the church’s Africentric concern for the realization of IHD. It concludes to ascertain that the Catholic Social Teaching has the aim for the holistic formation of the human person that guarantees healthy living and positive symbiosis amongst the ecology of existence, and it must be preached to order to curtail the negative waves of contemporary developmental demands and interests.

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