“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Blessed are the peacemakers.”
— Sermon on the Mount
This listing of organizations includes groups that focus on: human rights, nonviolence, nonviolent social action, violence prevention (including gun violence), peace and justice, peacebuilding, preventing or stopping war and genocide, restorative justice, conflict resolution, nuclear safety (weapons of mass destruction, disarmament), and peace and human rights in the Middle East/Israel/Palestine. This is not a comprehensive list of organizations; if you know of other groups that you would recommend to others, please mention them in the Comments.
My hope is that more of these organizations will work together and collaborate, to broaden their reach and amplify their impact, nationally and globally.
Human Rights Groups
- Human Rights Watch
- Amnesty International / Amnesty International USA
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Foundation
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Humanity United
- Global Witness
- Survival International
- UN Human Rights
- ACLU
- Doctors Without Borders
- Also see: Law Groups and Legal Frameworks for the Common Good
Nonviolence Groups
(Nonviolent Action and Violence Prevention)
- Waging Nonviolence
- The King Center: The Center for Nonviolent Social Change
- Nonviolent Action Lab, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
- Global Nonviolent Action Database, Swarthmore
- Metta Center for Nonviolence
- Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Nonviolence International
- Campaign Nonviolence (Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service)
- Nonviolence Institute
- Book: Looking for Revolution, Finding Murder
- Futures Without Violence
- Life After Hate
- National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
- End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI)
- National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Gun violence prevention:
- Advance Peace
- Brady United Against Gun Violence
- Everytown for Gun Safety
- Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
- March for Our Lives
- Sandy Hook Promise
- Newtown Action Alliance
- Giffords
- States United to End Gun Violence
- Guns Down America
- Disarm Domestic Violence
- Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence
- Students Demand Action
- Keep Guns Off Campus
- Youth Over Guns
- End Family Fire
- Change the Ref
- Survivors Empowered
- Violence Policy Center
- Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy
- Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions
- The Trace
- Gun Violence Archive
Peace Groups
- Alliance for Peacebuilding
- The Carter Center
- The Costs of War Project, Brown University Watson Institute
- The Elders
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) / Quakers: Peace and nonviolence info
- Genocide Prevention Program, George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
- Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)
- ICT (Information and Communications Technology) 4Peace
- Institute for Human Education
- International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
- International Peace Institute
- International Peace and Conflict Resolution program, American University
- Interpeace
- Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Peace Action
- Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Peace Corps
- Peace Development Fund
- Peace & Justice Studies Association (PJSA)
- Peace Science Society (International), University of North Texas
- Peacemakers Network (Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers)
- Peacemakers Trust
- Principles for Peace Foundation
- Promoting Enduring Peace
- Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
- Restorative Justice Exchange
- Saferworld
- Search for Common Ground (SFCG)
- UN Peacebuilding
- UN Peacekeeping
- Unitarian Universalist Peace Ministry Network
- Veterans for Peace
- War Resisters’ International
- We are Dissenters
- Win Without War
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
- World Beyond War
- Conflict Management and Peace Science journal
Nuclear Safety & Anti-Nuclear Groups
- Council for a Livable World
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
- Ploughshares Fund
- Global Zero
- Nuclear Threat Initiative
- NuclearBan.US
- Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
- Back from the Brink
- Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
- The William J. Perry Project
- Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
- Arms Control Association
- Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Outrider
- Nuclear Hotseat
- Exchange Monitor
- DiaNuke.org
- Beyond Nuclear
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
- Mothers for Peace (Cal.)
- Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
- Citizens Awareness Network
- SRS Watch (So.Car.)
- Clean Futures Fund
- Fairewinds Energy Education
Israel/Palestine, Middle East Peace & Human Rights Groups
- Standing Together
- Peace Now (Israel)
- The Parents Circle – Families Forum (PCFF)
- Physicians for Human Rights, Israel
- Breaking the Silence
- B’tselem
- Adalah
- Gisha
- Combatants for Peace
- Haaretz
- +972 Magazine
- Based in the U.S.:
- Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP)
- Foundation for Middle East Peace
- Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council
- Center for Jewish Nonviolence
- J Street
- IfNotNow
- American Friends of Combatants for Peace
- New Jewish Narrative
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- T’Ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
- Rabbis for Ceasefire (RodFeiShalom)
A couple of peacebuilders I recommend following online: Bernice King and Ami Dar.
I’ll add more people and organizations to this list over time. I also plan to provide a list of groups that address extremism and political violence, but that could be a separate post.
Lastly, click the following link for some quotations on peace and power.
True peace requires awareness, restraint, strength, and effort. May we all become peacemakers and peacebuilders, starting in our own lives and relationships and expanding that skill out into our communities and world.
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