John Paul II Justice & Peace Centre is a Catholic-based organization located in Uganda. It was founded in 2006, and officially commissioned by Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala, then Archbishop of Kampala in November 2007. It was initially co-founded by a consortium of five religious congregations: Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC), Missionaries of Africa (M.Afr), Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM), Comboni Missionaries (MCCJ) and Society of Jesus (SJ). This consortium grew to seven when the Comboni Sisters and Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa joined in 2008 and 2015, respectively. The founders were drawn by the deteriorating state of social justice in many rural and urban communities, including rising economic inequalities and poverty, domestic violence, and human rights violations. Furthermore, there was urgent need for post-conflict peacebuilding, through forgiveness and reconciliation in northern Uganda, following the successful 2008 Juba peace talks that brought an end to the two-decades long war between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Hence, the founders chose the motto “Faith Doing Justice.” The organization operates with the vision “to build an empowered people of God living in a just and peaceful Uganda,” driven by the mission “to promote awareness and creative response to issues of justice and peace in Uganda.” It has three key thematic areas: human rights and good governance; peace and peaceful dispute resolution; and integrity of creation (ecology). Currently, it is involved in various activities, including research and publication, advocacy against human trafficking, conflict transformation and development programs in refugee-affected areas in West Nile region in north-western Uganda; promoting integral ecology and environmental stewardship, and advocacy for good governance through civic education.