Eli's most recent book is “A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence (2020), along with a previous book entitled “Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy,” (2012). He has numerous journal articles such as "The Gospels Draw us Further: A Just Peace Ethic,” “Breaking Out: The Expansiveness of Restorative Justice in Laudato Si,’” “Good Practices of Unarmed Civilian Protection: Case Study in Israel and Palestine,” "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Toward a More Just U.S. Society," and "Will You Really Protect Us Without a Gun?: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping in the U.S." He has also written a number of articles in America, National Catholic Reporter, The Hill, Responsible Statecraft, Waging Nonviolence, and Huffington Post.
From 2012-2020, he also served as the Director of Justice and Peace for the CMSM, which is the leadership conference of the U.S. Catholic men’s religious orders. This enabled him direct advocacy and strategic campaign leadership experience influencing U.S. policy. From 2020-2022 he served as the Federal Policy Senior Advisor for the Catholic Labor Network. He presently serves as a Just Peace Fellow with Franciscan Action Network, and serves on the steering committee of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International. Eli has been formed by multiple trips to Ukraine in interfaith solidarity and advancing nonviolent peacebuilding (2022), trips to Haiti working with people who are poor, working with people living on the streets in Boston and DC, and monitoring the Palestinian Elections in 2006 with the Nonviolent Peaceforce. He also coordinates the DC Peace Team which offers training in nonviolent communication, restorative justice, bystander intervention, trauma awareness, anti-racism, meditation, along with providing unarmed civilian protection deployments (2011-present).
Academic Appointment(s)
- Secondary
- Adjunct Lecturer, College - Department of Theology and Religious Studies