Peace/Justice Groups (Religious)

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Comprehensive Sites

Wabash Center Internet Guide: War and Peace

http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/war-peace.htm

A thorough, annotated Web guide to Religion, with sites evaluated and selected for their quality and suitability for study and teaching purposes. This link takes you directly to their War and Peace page.

Fairgrove Conjureworks

http://www.conjure.com/religion.html

First launched in 1994, this somewhat unconventional site provides links to a large number of websites dealing with multi-faith and interfaith issues, service organizations, and peace movements.

Organizations

Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions

http://www.cpwr.org/

The mission of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is to cultivate harmony between the world's religious and spiritual communities and to foster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

Decade to Overcome Violence

http://www.overcomingviolence.org

The Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace (DOV) is an initiative of the World Council of Churches that calls churches, ecumenical organizations, and all people of goodwill to work together for peace, justice, and reconciliation at all levels: local, regional, and global.

Fellowship of Reconciliation

http://www.forusa.org/

Tracing its history to 1914, the fellowship is an interfaith and international movement with branches and groups in over 40 countries and on every continent. Today the membership of FOR includes Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, and people of other faith traditions, as well as those with no formal religious affiliation. Includes links to religious peace fellowships.

Interfaith Alliance

http://www.interfaithalliance.org/

This alliance, founded in 1994, works to promote interfaith cooperation around shared religious values to strengthen the public's commitment to the values of civic participation, freedom of religion, diversity, and civility in public discourse and to encourage the active involvement of people of faith in the nation's political life.

Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace

http://www.icujp.org/

Includes links to faith-based statements in opposition to war and injustice. ICUJP was founded in Los Angeles after 9/11 to support the work of religious leaders from Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish and other spiritual faiths and traditions who are working for an end to war and violence.

Life & Peace Institute

http://www.life-peace.org/

Founded in 1985 by the Swedish Ecumenical Council, this international and ecumenical center for peace research and action aims to further the causes of justice, peace and reconciliation through a combination of research, seminars and publications.

Churches for Middle East Peace

http://www.cmep.org/AboutCMEP.html

A coalition of 19 public policy offices of national churches and agencies, begun in 1984. Seeks to maintain an on-going dialog with the U.S. Government and the diplomatic community for the purpose of achieving and maintaining just and stable relationships throughout the Middle East.

 

Middle East Peace Dialogue Network

http://mpdn.org/

Supports 18 grassroots organizations engaging in Jewish-Arab dialogue, with links to their websites (when available).

Historic Peace Churches

Church of the Brethren

http://www.brethren.org/oepa/index.html

Relates to the "On Earth Peace" movement in the Church of the Brethren.

Mennonite Church USA

http://peace.mennolink.org/

Describes the work of the Peace and Justice Support Network of the Mennonite Church USA.

Mennonite Central Committee

http://www.mcc.org/

Homepage of the Mennonite Central Committee, the relief, service, and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches.

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

http://www.fum.org/about/peacepage.htm

Related to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the Friends United Meeting supports efforts in peacemaking and nonviolence.

Theology and Culture: Peacemaking in a Globalized World

http://www.peacetheology.org/who.html

Relates to the peace work of the Mennonite, Quaker and Brethren churches in the U.S.