Mario Marazziti co-founded the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002. He is known internationally as the spokesperson for the Community of Sant’Egidio, a progressive Catholic movement devoted to peacemaking and human rights, based in Rome and present in seventy countries. He is also a longtime a contributing writer to Corriere della Sera. In 2012 he was elected to the lower House of Parliament in Italy, where he pursues a broad human-rights portfolio. He lives in Rome.
Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs senior fellow Paul Elie is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own (2003) and Reinventing Bach (2012), both National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, and a contributor to The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Book Review. He posts pieces daily to everythingthatrises.com.