Non-Violence Links

Center for Nonviolent Communication:
Selected web links on spirituality and nonviolence

Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America www.bpfna.org

The Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America gathers, equips and mobilizes Baptists to build a culture of peace rooted in justice. We labour with a wonderful array of peacemakers to change the world.

Buddhist Peace Fellowship www.bpf.org

The mission of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF), founded in 1978, is to serve as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism. Our purpose 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.

Center on Conscience and War http://nisbco.org/about_ccw.htm

CCW, founded in 1940 by a group of religious bodies, works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors.  The Center is committed to supporting all those who question participation in war, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, documented or undocumented immigrants--or citizens in other countries.

Center for Nonviolent Communication http://cnvc.org/

A global organization helping people connect compassionately with themselves and one another through Nonviolent Communication.  Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is sometimes referred to as compassionate communication. Its purpose is to strengthen our ability to inspire compassion from others and to respond compassionately to others and to ourselves. NVC guides us to reframe how we express ourselves and hear others by focusing our consciousness on what we are observing, feeling, needing, and requesting.  Their website includes how to teach and learn NVC.

Central Committee for Conscientious  Objectors www.objector.org

The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.

The Complete Site on Mahatma Gandhi   http://mkgandhi.org/

A comprehensive website, hosted in India, dedicated to preserving the memory, writings, and teachings, of Mahatma Gandhi.

Educators for Nonviolence www.efnv.org

EFNV comprises educators, students, and others who share this ideal and are interested in working together to make high quality curricula and other resources available to encourage the integration of the ideas and methods of nonviolence into any type of education system.

Fellowship of Reconciliation http://forusa.org/

FOR is a large international interfaith organization which seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. FOR educates, trains, builds coalitions, and engages in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.

Jewish Peace Fellowship www.jewishpeacefellowship.org

Jewish Peace Fellowship is a Jewish voice in the peace community and a peace voice in the Jewish community. We are a nondenominational Jewish organization committed to active nonviolence as a means of resolving conflict, drawing on Jewish traditional sources within the Torah, the Talmud and contemporary peacemaking sages like Martin Buber, Judah Magnes and Abraham Joshua Heschel.

The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence www.gandhiinstitute.org

The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence was founded in 1991 by the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, and his wife, Sunanda.  Many of the Institute’s educational programs are aimed at conflict prevention, anger management, diversity training, and relationship- and community-building.

METTA Center for Nonviolent Education www.mettacenter.org

The METTA Center for Nonviolence Education works to inspire and support the study and practice of nonviolence. By providing resources and other educational activities, we empower ourselves and others to enliven the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and all those who have blazed a trail to the "beloved community" and a nonviolent future for humanity.

Muslim Peace Fellowship www.mpfweb.org

The Muslim Peace Fellowship (Ansar as-Salam) is a gathering of peace and justice-oriented Muslims of all backgrounds who are dedicated to making the beauty of Islam evident in the world.

National Center for Congregational Justice www.NCCJ.org.

To transform communities to provide fuller opportunity and to be inclusive and just through institutional change by empowering leaders.  NCCJ's programming facilitates community and interfaith dialogues, provides workplace consultations, youth leadership development, seminarian and educator training.

Nonviolent Action Handbook by Sanderson Beck www.san.beck.org/NAH1-Nonviolence.html

A great primer of roughly 12 pages on nonviolent action--both its history and in particular how to do it and what attitudes are necessary.

Pax Christi USA www.paxchristiusa.org

Pax Christi USA strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society. Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation.

Peace Power www.calpeacepower.org

Our publication will promote a greater understanding of Principled Nonviolence and Conflict Transformation at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and paradigmatic levels. We will positively and conscientiously communicate with audiences of different levels of familiarity with our subject matter. We seek to inspire hope by showing a way out of the pattern of war, injustice, and the logic of humiliation. We seek to facilitate new understandings between people, empower people to incorporate peaceful principles in their work for social change, and contribute to the creation of a nonviolent future.

PeaceWork Magazine www.afsc.org/peacework/

Peacework is a monthly journal published since 1972 by the New England Regional Office of the AFSC. Originally it covered resistance to military conscription and war tax resistance, but its outlook has broadened:  today it covers the full range of "Global Thought and Local Action for Nonviolent Social Change," with a special focus on the northeastern United States.

The Search for Common Ground www.SFCG.Org

Our mission is very ambitious: to transform the way the world deals with conflict. We emphasize cooperative solutions, pursued on a realistic scale and with practical means. Current problems - whether ethnic, environmental, or economic - are simply too complex and interconnected to be settled on an adversarial basis.

Soul Force www.Soulforce.org

The purpose of Soulforce is freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance.  See especially "Take the Journey" section for steps to embodying a spiritual politics.