The Justice and Peace Commission, as a pastoral structure of evangelization, has as aim to help in building up a just and peaceful society by promoting all that enhances the dignity of the human person, combating and denouncing all that degrades and destroys the human person, and by resolving conflicts (PPP*, Pg. 75).

It came into being after the fathers of Second Vatican Council had proposed the creation of a body of the Universal Church whose role would be “to stimulate the Catholic Community to foster progress in needy regions and social justice on the international scene”.