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The Institute of Anthropology (IADC), an academic institute of the Pontifical Gregorian University, seeks to promote safeguarding measures and the protection of children and vulnerable people through formation, education and interdisciplinary research.
Mission
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“We must recover our understanding of what it means to be human and the good that is our end. Safeguarding is more than simply protecting.”
– FR. HANS ZOLLNER SJ, DIRECTOR
“We must recover our understanding of what it means to be human and the good that is our end. Safeguarding is more than simply protecting.”
– FR. HANS ZOLLNER SJ, DIRECTOR

Programmes

  • Sr. Loredana Sesatty

    From Mexico
    "As an IADC alumna serving in Israel/Palestine, a holy yet deeply wounded land, the program helped me to integrate psychology, spirituality, social justice and safeguarding in a practical way. Today I work as a Comboni Sister and psychologist in a counseling center in Bethlehem".

  • Sr. Toyin Abegunde

    From Burkina Faso
    "My passage in IADC has changed my life and my orientations in matters of safeguarding. Coming back, to Burkina Faso my first job was to share and communicate and share my experience with my local leaders. We particularly worked with our pupils in the school on the needs to create boundaries and how to keep themselves safe from abuses".

  • Sr. Danielle Victoria Lussier

    From USA
    Studying safeguarding at the IADC was both difficult and deeply meaningful for us as religious sisters dedicated to a mission that involves safeguarding. We were deeply heartened that the program focuses on safeguarding, not just as policies and procedures, but rather on living in a way that protects and safeguards the sacredness of our own and others' vulnerability.

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