PEACE TEAM PARTNERS
These are organizations that have been identified as potential partners for events and activities as well as resources for our churches. This list is by no means comprehensive. Please let us know of any organizations that you are working with or should be added to our list. Thank you!
RELIGIOUS GROUPS: (Peace oriented)
Ahmadiyya Islam
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam was created under divine guidance with the objective to rejuvenate Islamic moral and spiritual values.
http://www.alislam.org/introduction/index.html
Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Established for meaningful learning rooted in Torah and tradition, Kabbalah and Hasidism combined with a modern consciousness that is politically progressive, egalitarian and environmentally aware.
https://www.aleph.org/
American Friends Service Committee
This organization was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers) in 1917. They carry out service, development and peace programs throughout the world. 888-588-2372
http://www.afsc.org
American Muslim Voice
Our mission is to protect and preserve civil liberties and constitutional rights for ALL.
www.amuslimvoice.org
Bahá'í
The Bahá'í vision of a united, peaceful world reflects an understanding that humanity is approaching its maturity and is able to create a global society founded on justice and expressing trust, collaboration, and compassion.
http://www.bahai.org/
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Wisdom and compassion for social change.
www.bpf.org
CaoDai
CaoDai is a universal faith with the principle that all religions have one same divine origin, which is God, or Allah, or the Tao, or the Nothingness, one same ethic based on LOVE and JUSTICE, and are just different manifestations of one same TRUTH.
http://www.caodai.org/pages/?pageID=1
Church of the Brethern
Peace Mission: Developing leadership for peace in each new generation. Nurturing spirit-filled discipleship and active response to violence. Teaching and leading healthy, faithful responses to conflict.
http://www.brethren.org/oepa/
Mennonite Church USA
The mission of Peace and Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church USA is to proclaim and promote God's desire for justice, Christ's call to peacemaking , and the Spirit's reconciling work.
http://peace.mennolink.org/
Pax Christi USA
Pax Christi strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence.
www.paxchristiusa.org
The Religious Society of Friends
Religious witness for PEACE since 1660.
http://www.quaker.org/
Unitarian Universalists
Unitarian Universalist religious principles call us to strive for a world community with peace, liberty and justice for all.
http://www.uua.org/visitors/justicediversity/9536.shtml
INTERFAITH GROUPS & RESOURCES:
Abraham Path Initiative
The Abraham Path will become a place of meeting — inspiring respect and building friendship between people of different faiths and cultures.
www.abrahampath.org
The Association for Global New Thought
Planetary healing through self-realization and spiritually-motivated activism is the new promise of these teachings.
http://www.agnt.org/
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.
www.amnesty.org
American Ethical Union
Ethical Culture is a humanistic religious and educational movement inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society.
www.aeu.org
Another Mother for Peace
Another Mother for Peace is a non-profit, non-partisan association dedicated to eliminating the use of war as a means of solving disputes among nations, people and ideologies.
www.anothermother.org
Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education
Dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of violence that leads to scientifically based violence prevention programs and widely applicable violence prevention policy.
http://msass.case.edu/begun/
Business for Social Responsibility
Through advisory services, convenings and research, BSR works with corporations and concerned stakeholders of all types to create a more just and sustainable global economy.
www.bsr.org
The Center for Nonviolent Communication
A global organization helping people connect compassionately with themselves and one another throughNonviolent Communication language, created by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
www.cnvc.org
Code Pink
People who want to influence a shift in the focus of world society and governments from militarism to life affirming endeavors.
www.codepink4peace.org
Communities of Peace Foundation
Our mission is to provide a format for people to identify themselves as peacemakers at the earliest possible age, a means to evoke each person's intrinsic nature, and a platform for participants to contribute their unique positive contributions of peace into the community.
www.communitiesofpeace.org
The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
strives to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
www.parliamentofreligions.org
Department of Peace
Our goal is to take the field of peacebuilding from the margins of the political and societal dialogue and bring it to its rightful place: Central to our policymaking, investment and understanding.
www.thepeacealliance.org
Earthstewards Network
The Earthstewards Network is a nonprofit international organization devoted to bringing positive change to our planet through the grassroots efforts of people like you.
www.earthstewards.org
Fellowship of Reconcilliation
We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change.
www.forusa.org
Global Exchange
Building people to people ties.
www.globalexchange.org
Global Youth Action Network
Our mission is to facilitate youth participation and intergenerational partnership in global decision-making; support collaboration among diverse youth organizations; and provide tools, resources, and recognition for positive youth action.
www.youthlink.org
Institute of HeartMath
Empowering Heart Based Living.
http://www.heartmath.org/index.php
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
The mission of IMTD is to promote a systems-based approach to peacebuilding and to facilitate the transformation of deep-rooted social conflict through education, conflict resolution training and communication.
www.imtd.org
IMS Interfaith Mission Service
People and communities of faith serving together to promote religious, racial, and cultural harmony; respond to human needs; and facilitate communication within the community.
www.interfaithmissionservice.org
Michigan Peace Teams
We offer nonviolence training workshops and provide opportunities to join peace teams.
www.michiganpeaceteam.org
National Women’s Studies Association
Leading the field of women’s studies in educational and social transformation.
www.nwsa.org
New Songs for Peace
This UNESCO-endorsed project is intended to encourage people to think about peace, talk about peace, and write a new song that we will collect and self-publish in a book.
www.newsongsforpeace.org
One Percent
One Percent is dedicated to uniting people of all faiths in an effort to create a more peaceful and non-violent environment.
http://www.whenonepercent.org/about-one-percent.html
Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service
Fostering a just and peaceful world through nonviolent education, community building and action.
www.paceebene.org
Pachamama Alliance
AWAKENING THE DREAMER,CHANGING THE DREAM
http://www.awakeningthedreamer.org/
Pathways to Peace
Pathways To Peace is an international Peacebuilding, Educational and Consulting organization.
www.pathwaystopeace.org
Peace Action
We give ordinary people the tools to change the world.
www.peace-action.org
Peace Journey
The Peace Journey guides global friendships among children of the world through technology and education.
www.peacejourney.com
Peace One Day
Established an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace, POD’s main aim is to raise awareness of Peace Day on September 21 each year.
www.peaceoneday.org
Peace Trees Vietnam
PeaceTrees Vietnam was founded in 1996 to renew relationships with the people of Vietnam and promote a safe, healthy future for its children.
www.peacetreesvietnam.org
Physicians for Social Responsibility
PSR is the medical and public health voice working to prevent the use or spread of nuclear weapons and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment.
www.psr.org
The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
Our mission is to help Americans engage with the realities of religious diversity through research, outreach, and the active dissemination of resources.
http://www.pluralism.org/
Restorative Solutions, LLC
Dedicated to inspiring and supporting individuals, organizations and communities to embrace restorative community justice values and principles.
www.restorativesolutions.us
S.A.R.A.H. –Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope
A group of interfaith women committed to making a difference through collaboration, discussion, understanding and community service.
www.sarah4hope.org
The Unity-and-Diversity World Council
The Purpose of the UDC is to establish and sustain a worldwide coordinating body of individuals, groups, and networks -- to foster the emergence of a new person and civilization based on the dynamic integration of diversity among all peoples and all life.
www.udcworld.org/background.htm
Tikkun Community
We are a community of people from many faiths and traditions, called together by TIKKUN magazine and its vision of healing and transforming our world.
www.tikkun.org
United Communities of Spirit
A global interfaith network, linking people of diverse faiths and beliefs who want to work with others to build a better world.
http://origin.org/ucs/home.cfm
United Religions Initiative
The purpose of the United Religions Initiative is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.
http://www.uri.org
Veterens for Peace
We draw on our personal experiences and perspectives gained as veterans to raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war - and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives.
www.veteransforpeace.org
Wholistic Peace Institute
The Institute was formed to bring to bear the “creativity and the unique knowledge” of the Nobel Peace Laureates to solving the world’s most violent prone and dangerous problem areas.
www.wholisticpeaceinstitute.com
The Wisdom Pages
The Wisdom Pages is a unique website to encourage vital understanding across the fault lines of different ideological beliefs and opinions, encompassing both religious and scientific approaches to knowledge. Our goal is the advancement and discovery of underlying wisdom in a spirit of harmony and goodwill.
www.thewisdompages.co.uk
We the World
A place where the many movements for social change come together in an ongoing mass public education and mobilization campaign for -Peace On Earth and Peace With Earth.
http://www.wetheworld.org/wtw2/index.php4
World Peace Prayer Society
Our Mission is Simple, to spread the Universal Peace Message and Prayer, May Peace Prevail On Earth, far and wide to embrace the lands and people of this Earth.
www.worldpeace.org
Youth for Environmental Sanity
YES! is a nonprofit organization that connects, inspires and empowers young changemakers to join forces for a thriving, just and sustainable way of life.
www.yesworld.org