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Buddhist
Peace Fellowship
http://www.bpf.org/html/home.html
The mission of the
Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF), founded
in 1978, is to serve as a catalyst and agent for socially engaged
Buddhism. Our
aim is to help beings liberate themselves from the suffering that
manifests in
individuals, relationships, institutions, and social systems. BPF's
programs,
publications, and practice groups link Buddhist teachings of wisdom and
compassion
with progressive social change.
Links to current projects,
bibliographies, essays, education
and training, periodical.
Fellowship
of
Reconciliation
http://www.forusa.org/
Interfaith organization.
Articles, quotes, prayers, and
statements. Event calendar, news updates, youth peacemaker training,
and peace
internships, Register for nonviolence training, subscribe to their
magazine,
purchase merchandise, and network with others.
Interfaith Center
on
Corporate Responsibility
http://www.iccr.org/
"For thirty years the ICCR has
been a leader of the
corporate social responsibility movement. ICCR's membership is an
association
of 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish institutional investors,
including
national denominations, religious communities, pension funds,
endowments,
hospital corporations, economic development funds and publishing
companies.
ICCR and its members press companies to be socially and environmentally
responsible." Resources available for order on these issues: access to
health
care, contract supplier system, corporate governance, enabling access
to
capital, environmental justice, global warming, promoting human rights,
violence and militarization, & water and food.
Interfaith
Encounter
Association
http://www.interfaith-encounter.org/index.htm
Retreats and conferences for interfaith dialogue
and cross-cultural
study to promote peace in the Middle East.
Interfaith
Voices for
Peace and Justice
Interspirit.net/ifv.cfm
A communication network for peacemakers providing a
directory of more than 700 organizations actively seeking peace and
justice, a
division of those groups into 20 areas of concern, and ways to
communicate with
all groups in an area or the entire list.
Jewish
Peace Fellowship
http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/
Founded in 1941 to defend the
rights of conscientious
objectors Ð provides Shalom Newsletter, links to publications,
books, articles.
Topic areas: Middle East, capital punishment, war and peace, the draft,
and
conscientious objection.
Muslim
Peace Fellowship
http://www.mpfweb.org/
Web site under construction.
Soulforce
http://www.soulforce.org
"Soulforce is an interfaith
movement committed to ending
spiritual violence perpetuated by religious policies and teachings
against gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people. Local chapters have
formed
across the nation to support and carry out the nonviolent struggle for
justice
and equality that Soulforce volunteers are doing nationally, and at the
same
time, take that struggle for justice to the local level."
Resources: news, reports,
photos, press releases, booklets, videos,
archives, denominational update pages. See especially biblical,
medical,
psychiatric, and scientific evidence.
World
Conference of
Religions for Peace
www.wcrp.org/
"Religions
for Peace helps these communities unleash their enormous potential for
common
action. Some of Religions for Peace's recent successes include
mediating
dialogue among warring factions in Sierra Leone;
building a new climate of reconciliation in Bosnia and Kosovo;
organizing an
international network of religious
women's organizations; and launching an extraordinary
program to
assist the millions of children affected by Africa's AIDS pandemic, the
Hope for African
Children Initiative."
See Women's
Program for newsletter, and training program. Other programs include
conflict
transformation, children, development, disarmament and security, human
rights,
AIDS/HIV, and peace education.
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