Peacemaking, Nonviolence, Justice, and Anti-War Resources
Peacemaking Resources
Pax Christi, USA strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing the call of Christian nonviolence. PAX Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation.
Peace Action Organization is the nation's largest grassroots peace network. They organize their grassroots network to place pressure on Congress and the Administration through write-in campaigns, internet actions, citizen lobbying, and direct action.
Peaceful Tomorrows was founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who have united to turn grief into action for peace. They develop and advocate nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice in hopes of breaking the cycles of violence engendered by war and terrorism.
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research is an independent think tank, a global network, and a website for peace by peaceful means. It promotes conflict-mitigation and reconciliation in general and in selected conflict regions through meticulous on-the-ground research, active listening, education, and advocacy.
United for Peace Coalition is a coalition of more than 1400 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.
The United States Peace Index measures the level of peacefulness in all 50 US states over the last 20 years. The USPI aims to prove a more localised view of peace within the U.S. and to determine what conditions are associated with peace at the state level.
Nonviolence Resources
Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence is a nonprofit that works to relaize the vision of its historic namesake. The Institute helps individuals and communities develop the inner resources and practical skill needed to achieve a nonviolent, sustainable, and just world.
MLK Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolent Peace Force encisions a world in which large-scale unarmed civilian peacekeeping using proven nonviolent strategies is recognized as a viable alternative in preventing, addressing, and mitigating violent conflicts worldwide. Their mission is to promote, develop, and implement unarmed civilian peacekeeping as a tool for reducing violence and protecting civilians in situations of violent conflict.
Pace e Bene Nonviolent Service collaborates with international, national, and local orgnaizations, religious communities, and movements taking nonviolent action to: foster just and lasting peace; champion human rights; challenge the violence of poverty and multiple forms of oppression; and strengthening spiritually-based initiatives for justice and peace.
Justice Resources
School of the Americas Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas through vicils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protests, as well as media and legislative work.
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is a civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage.
Fellowship of Reconciliation, New York is an organization that recognizes the essential unity of all creation and explores the power of lvoe and truth for resolving human conflict. While it has always been vigorous in its opposition to war, the Fellowship has insisted equally that this effort must be based on a commitment to the achieving of a just and peaceful world community.
War Resisters League, New York has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Today they challenge military recruitment and war profiteering, organize nonviolent direct action, and offer on-the-ground tools to end the current war and all wars.
Antiwar.com is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and has become the Internet newspaper for growing an international anti-war movement.
Anti-War Resources
Fellowship of Reconciliation, New York is an organization that recognizes the essential unity of all creation and explores the power of lvoe and truth for resolving human conflict. While it has always been vigorous in its opposition to war, the Fellowship has insisted equally that this effort must be based on a commitment to the achieving of a just and peaceful world community.
War Resisters League, New York has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Today they challenge military recruitment and war profiteering, organize nonviolent direct action, and offer on-the-ground tools to end the current war and all wars.
Antiwar.com is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and has become the Internet newspaper for growing an international anti-war movement.