With this issue 334 we launch our new format for Open House Scotland and welcome our first guest editor, Anna Blackman.

Anna is a lecturer in Catholic Religious Education  at Glasgow University's School of Education and has taught widely in the areas of Catholic social thought, Christian ethics, Christian apologetics, and political theology.

Prior to her time at Glasgow, she lectured at the universities of Roehampton, Durham, Newcastle, and Tubingen, as well as working as a Research Associate in the area of Catholic social thought and practice at the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame.

She is uniquely placed, then, to edit our first 'themed' edition of Open House Scotland, dedicated in the main part to peacemaking.