Peace Building and Engineering

In this month's podcast we are delighted to introduce Lilian Maruti, engineer and community developer in Nairobi, Kenya. Lilian embodies the essence of ESJP as she speaks of her transformational journey from construction engineer to Non Profit Director and community developer, turning construction waste into housing in the depths of Kibera. If anyone would like to support the work of Paragon Institute of Sustainable Development Kenya, and their urgent need to build local housing before the floods come, contact ESJP podcast co-host Caroline Baillie @ [email protected]. Just $600 will save a family's home from collapsing on the children's beds.

How are peace building and engineering connected? How can you start a career in engineering and use your skills to help countries create peace? This episode of the ESJP podcast invites us into the amazing world of Jerry McCann, peace engineer, ESJP advisor and all round inspirational human being.

A conversation with Professor Camilo Andres Navarro Forero, Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering and Sciences at the Technologico de Monterrey, Mexico. Learn about how Camilo connects his engineering work to peace building in latin America. We caught up with Camilo in Bogota, where he comes from, but he has just moved to Monterrey, which is wonderful timing as that is where our ESJP conference will be held in August 2026!

ESJP would not exist without George Catalano. In 2024 he attended an 'Engineering and Social Justice' meeting run by cohost Caroline Baillie, in Kingston, Canada. Two years later he decided to run the next one. This one was called "Engineering, Social Justice and Peace'. And George really did add the peace to ESJP. Listen to hear more from our beloved cofounder.

Caroline Baillie, cohost of our ESJP podcast series takes us on a visit to the Pope's summer palace in Rome where she took part in the Inaugural meeting of the Global Alliance for Integral Ecology/ Laudato si', launched by the University of Notre Dame and the Vatican’s Laudato Si’ Center for Higher Education based at Castle Gondolfo.

Do you ever worry about the amount of trash you create? Want to share your used toys and clothes but don't have a place to take them? Diane Cohen has created a huge system of reuse and repair across her city, including deconstructing and repurposing building materials and repairing electronic goods. This may help to reduce the waste going to landfill but she tells us it is actually all about community and relationships. Find out more in our interview with Diane for the latest podcast in our Engineering, Social Justice and Peace network series (esjp.org).

Welcome to our ESJP podcast series! In this first episode, host Saskia van Beers invites her co-host Caroline Baillie, and two other ESJP founders, Chris Byrne and Katy Haralampides to share the story of how ESJP began and what it means to them. ESJP was formed in 2004 and is a network of practitioners, community members, and academics dedicated to Social Justice and Peace in relation to the profession of engineering and engineering education. You can find out more about ESJP at https://esjp.org/