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Active Nonviolence & Peacemaking

Institute for Peace and Justice
Many resources for educators, families and children about nonviolence. Their "Pledge of Nonviolence" can be adapted for children, families, schools and churches. Materials that focus on the principles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) is a coalition of local, regional, and national groups supportive of war tax resistance.
Nonviolent Peace Force
Nonviolent Peace Force's mission is to energize and train an international nonviolent peace force that can be sent into conflict areas to secure human rights and prevent atrocities, allowing local organizations to work nonviolently towards peace.
Pace a Bene
A Franciscan service in active nonviolence
The Peace Alliance
The Peace Alliance is leading the campaign to establish a United States Department of Peace in the President's Cabinet by supporting the U.S. House of Representatives bill, H.R. 808. This historic measure will augment current problem-solving options, providing practical, nonviolent solutions to the problems of domestic and international conflict.

Peaceful Tomorrows
This organization was formed by family members of those who lost their lives on 9/11. The founders wanted to honor family members and turn their grief into action for promoting peace.

SOA Watch
United for Peace and Justice
United Nations
United Nations Association-Iowa Division
UNA-USA
The UNA of the USA is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to enhancing U.S. participation in the United Nations system with its agenda of education, public research, and substantive policy analysis.

Amnesty International
Bread for the World
A nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers.

Catholic Relief Services
Corporate Accountability International
Urging the boycott of tobacco companies that market to young people; opposition to the privatization of water and diminishment of public water systems; and air pollution by oil, coal and other industries.

Franciscans International
Human Rights Watch
An independent non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.

Iowa Catholic Conference
L'Arche
L'Arche is an international federation of communities in which people with a developmental disability and assistants live, work, pray and share their lives together.

Methodist Federation for Social Action
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
NETWORK
Pax Christi
Peace movement involved in the fields of demilitarization and security, human rights, ecology, economic justice and reconciliation.

Campaign to End the Death Penalty
The Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty
Formed as an invitation by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to work towards abolishing the death penalty in the United States.

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)
is the first place to look when you need news, updates, facts and figures about the death penalty. DPIC is widely cited by major media.