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Alternative
to Violence
Project
www.avpusa.ogr/ AVP is a
nationwide
and worldwide association of volunteer groups offering experiential
workshops
in conflict resolution, responses to violence, and personal
growth. AVP is
dedicated to reducing the level of violence in our society. Our goal is
to
reduce the level of violence by introducing people to ways of resolving
conflict that reduce their need to resort to violence as the solution.
The
Alternatives to Violence Project is designed to create successful
personal
interactions and transform violent situations. We're dedicated to
teaching the
same non-violent skills and techniques that were used by Mohandas
Gandhi and
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We do our training where violence is
found. Our workshops target: Prisons, Communities, and
Schools.
American
Academy of
Pediatrics
www.aap.org/
Search by topic, such as media
guidelines or violence. See "Parenting Corner".
Amnesty
International
www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement
of people
who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AIÕs
vision is of a
world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in
the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this
vision, AIÕs
mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and
ending
grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of
conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the
context
of its work to promote all human rights. AI is independent of any
government,
political ideology, economic interest or religion. It does not support
or
oppose any government or political system, nor does it support or
oppose the
views of the victims whose rights it seeks to protect. It is concerned
solely
with the impartial protection of human rights.
Brady
Campaign
www.bradycampaign.org
The Brady Campaign works to
enact and enforce sensible gun
laws, regulations and public policies through grassroots activism,
electing
pro-gun control public officials and increasing public awareness of gun
violence.
The
Carter Center
www.cartercenter.org
See information on their human
rights and peace programs.
Center
for Disease Control
and Prevention Ð Division of Violence Prevention
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm
Authoritative data and important links to resources
related
to all aspects of violence Ð sexual violence, youth violence,
violence against
the aging, child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, suicide and
parenting.
Child
Welfare League of
America
www.cwla.org
Authoritative data and important links to resources
related
to all aspects of child welfare. See Child Youth and Family and
advocacy links.
Children's
Defense Fund
Childrensdefensefund.org See Section on Engaging Faith
Communities.
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to
Leave No
Child Behind and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe
Start, and a Moral
Start in life and successful
passage to adulthood with the
help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong,
effective voice
for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for
themselves. CDF pays particular attention to the needs of poor and
minority
children and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the
needs
of children and encourages preventive investment before they get sick
or into
trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. CDF began in
1973 and
is a private, nonprofit organization supported by foundation and
corporate
grants and individual donations.
Conflict
Research
Consortium
conflict.colorado.edu/
Comprehensive Gateway to the
Websites of the University of
Colorado Conflict Research Consortium - data, articles, research,
simulations, online
courseware, links.
The National Jobs
for All
Coalition
http://www.njfac.org/
The National Jobs for All Coalition is a movement committed to building
a new movement for full employment at livable wages to help create a
good and
just society. This goal unites a diverse group of otherwise divided,
single-issue constituencies.
The
Martin Luther King,
Jr. Center's Nonviolence or Nonexistence Online Course
www.thekingcenter.org/
Click on e-learning to access:
Realizing the Dream:
Nonviolence or Nonexistence. Select the Beloved Community Network to
learn
about the six principles and six steps of nonviolence and to locate
opportunities to serve.
Nobel
Peace Prize Winners
http://nobelprize.org/peace/
Useful for children's
sermons, worship or Sunday School
preparation.
Peace
Magazine
http://www.peacemagazine.org/
Peace
Magazine is
published by Canadian Disarmament Information Service (CANDIS) -- a
nonprofit
organization.
Southern
Poverty Law
CenterÕs Teaching Tolerance
www.teachingtolerance.org
Sections for parents, teachers, youth, children.
Curricula,
magazine, online links, videos, and more. Tolerance.org is a principal
online
destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating,
in
hate's stead, communities that value diversity. ItÕs about
transforming self,
home, school, workplace or community.
United
States Institute of
Peace
www.usip.org/
Library resources, data,
publications, fellowships, policy
research, oral histories, education and training, interfaith dialogues.
See Religion
and Peacemaking.
Victim-Offender
Reconciliation Program Information and Resource Center
http://www.vorp.com/
Victim-Offender Mediation
Programs (VOMP), also known as
Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs (VORP) bring offenders
face-to-face
with the victims of their crimes with the assistance of a trained
mediator,
usually a community volunteer. Crime is personalized as offenders learn
the
human consequences of their actions, and victims (who are largely
ignored by
the criminal justice system) have the opportunity to speak their minds
and
their feelings to the one who most ought to hear them, contributing to
the
healing process of the victim. Offenders
take meaningful responsibility for their actions by mediating a
restitution
agreement with the victim, to restore the victims' losses, in whatever
ways
that may be possible. Restitution may be monetary or symbolic; it may
consist
of work for the victim, community service or anything else that creates
a sense
of justice between the victim and the offender.
Violence
Policy Center
http://www.vpc.org/
The Violence Policy Center
(VPC), a national non-profit
organization based in Washington, DC works to stop this annual toll of
death
and injury through research, advocacy, education, and litigation. The
VPC
approaches gun violence as a public health issue, advocating that
firearms be
held to the same health and safety standards that virtually all other
consumer
products must meet. Guns and tobacco are the only two consumer products
for
which there is no federal oversight for health and safety. Each year,
more than
28,000 Americans die in gun suicides, homicides, and unintentional
shootings as
a result of the ready availability, and accessibility, of specific
classes of
firearms. Gun violence is more than a crime issue; it is a broad-based
health
crisis of which crime is merely the most recognized aspect.
The
World's Dispute
Resolution Channel: mediate.com
mediate.com
Mediate.com
is the most visited
conflict resolution web site in the world. Locate mediators in your
region, get
training, access articles, products, and services.
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