b'P U LT E I N S T I T U T E forG L O B A L D E V E L O P M E N T 2021 - 2022A N N U A L R E V I E WSUSTAINABILITY The role of Catholic Rights-Based Waterpeacebuilders in addressing Governance global mining issuesWater-intensive industries like the beverage, agriculture, garment,From cellphones to computers to life-saving medical hydropower, and mining sectors can pose some of the largest threatstechnologies, the day-to-day lives of people across the globe to the rights of local and indigenous communities, especiallyare intertwined with materials produced by the global mining surrounding water. Yet, what does protecting associated rightsindustry. A new book by the Catholic Peacebuilding Network actually entailand how can corporate and government actors(CPN) makes the case that the Catholic community can make truly fulfill their ethical and legal obligations beyond currenta distinctive contribution by addressing mining issues through practices of monitoring violations? the lens of peacebuilding. The Pulte Institute, in partnership with faculty from Notre DamesThe book, Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Environmental Change Initiative, the Keough School of GlobalDevelopment, and Ecology (Routledge), grows out of a series day-to-day operations. The framework has been validated againstof conversations convened by CPN in response to concerns Affairs and industrial actor BHP, is producing a groundbreakingfive different historical and ongoing global water-intensivefrom Catholic Peacebuilding Network (CPN) partners around approach to water stewardship that clarifies the interpretationcontexts to prove its flexibility across industries. The team hasthe world about the ways mining is driving conflict in their of the human right to water in industrial contexts and explainsalso begun a series of consultations with key experts in the fieldlocal contexts, including around the issues of sustainability how to implement it. This approach uniquely brings together thewho can provide crucial feedback that will ultimately strengthenand development. often-siloed hydrological, political, and legal spheres to producethe framework and its approach. They plan to present their one comprehensive, multidimensional framework.framework at World Water Week 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden,Pulte Institute Director Ray Offenheiser has played a major This framework is the first to guide users in how to comprehensivelyin front of a multitude of relevant stakeholders, researchers, androle in addressing issues at the intersection of mining and anticipate, then implement, the human right to water in theirpolicymakers. Visit pulte.nd.edu/water-governance.development, including serving as president of Oxfam America for more than 20 years. He wrote a chapter in CPNs newest book on mining, focusing on the need for companies to move from operating selfishly, and with impunity, to negotiating and THE PROJECT TEAM receiving consent from local communities. It will involve a serious commitment to building trust and a shared sense of Ray OffenheiserTom Purekalpurpose with local communities about the long-term well-William J. Pulte Director andDiane DesiertoProgram Director, Innovationbeing and prosperity of a regionmov[ing] beyond being a Keough School Professor ofProfessor of Law andand Practice and Termtraditional extractive industry toward becoming a reliable the Practice Global Affairs Assistant Teaching Professor development partner, said Offenheiser. Marc MullerGeorges EnderleJed Youngs Assistant Professor of CivilJohn T. Ryan Jr. ProfessorPractice Lead Water and Environmental EngineeringEmeritus of InternationalStewardship To survive and thrive in the 21st century, the contemporary mining and Earth Sciences Business Ethics BHP industry must undergo a significant mindset shift from being a purely Ellis Adjei AdamsElizabeth Dolan Anne Dekkerextractive industry to true development partner prepared to embrace Assistant ProfessorInnovation and PracticeVice Presidentand ameliorate the long-term impacts of its presence and operations.of Geography andResearch AssociateEnvironment Environmental Policy BHP Ray Offenheiser, William J. Pulte Director, Pulte Institute for Global Development20 21'