Our Collective Wisdom is Strong! Wonderful Organizations

Albert Einstein Institution 

The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflict.

Our goals are to understand the dynamics of nonviolent action in conflicts, to explore its policy potential, and to communicate this through print and other media, translations, conferences, consultations, and workshops.

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American Friends Service Committee

Founded in 1917, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action.

Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, AFSC nurtures the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems.

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Amnesty International 

Amnesty International tells the powerful stories of the people they work with and mobilizes millions of supporters around the world to campaign for change and to stand in defense of activists on the frontline. 

Amnesty has grown from seeking the release of political prisoners to upholding the whole spectrum of human rights. Our work protects and empowers people - from abolishing the death penalty to protecting sexual and reproductive rights, and from combatting discrimination to defending refugees and migrants’ rights. 

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Beautiful Trouble

Beautiful Trouble is an extraordinary alliance of artists, trainers, and creative campaigners who continue to make, teach and celebrate game-changing creative activism through a training network. 

Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox, and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective.

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Better World Info

Better World Info is a central information hub covering topics related to our future, such as peace, human rights, the environment, climate change, one world issues, and social justice.

Better World is a non-profit participatory website providing a user-friendly, comprehensive internet directory with 325,000 curated links on global affairs. Better World Info recognizes the profound need for accurate information about the world's most pressing issues which will shape the future. 

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Catholic Peace Fellowship

The Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF) offers practical and pastoral support to military and veterans who are struggling with the contradiction between their personal participation in war and their consciences. 

Guided by a personalist philosophy, the Catholic Peace Fellowship works for peace before, during, and after the war through education, counseling, advocacy, and accompaniment.

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Community Peacemaker Teams

CPT places teams, spiritual communities, and individuals at the invitation of local peacemaking communities that are confronting situations of lethal conflict. 

CPT enlists spiritual communities and individuals in an organized, nonviolent alternative to war. CPT understands violence to be rooted in systemic structures of oppression. We are committed to undoing oppressions, starting within our own lives and in the practices of our organization.

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Common Dreams

Common Dreams publishes a diverse mix of breaking news, insightful views, videos, and press releases covering issues that resonate with progressives in every corner of the globe.

Common Dreams is a non-profit independent news-center created in 1997 as a new media model. Common Dreams works diligently to uncover and publish honest, independent news and information that you can rely on. Every day.

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East Point Peace Academy

East Point Peace Academy works to build peace warriors: leaders and active participants invested in creating, supporting and nurturing communities.

EPPA has a set of nine core commitments. Core commitments include: transparency, empowerment, genericity, and interdependence, fierce vulnerability, emergence, holistic thinking, longview, and disciplined practice.

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Fellowships of Reconciliation USA

Fellowship of Reconciliation USA (FORusa) is an interfaith peace fellowship leading the charge on today’s most pressing human and civil rights issues through advocacy, activism, and educational programs.

FORusa is the oldest and largest organization of its kind, promoting peace and active nonviolence with a diverse membership spanning many religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions.

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Friends Committee on National Legislation

FCNL is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to live values of integrity, simplicity, and peace as they build relationships across political divides to move policies of justice and environmental stewardship forward.

FCNL fields an expert team of lobbyists on Capitol Hill and works with a grassroots network of tens of thousands of people across the country to advance policies and priorities established by our governing General Committee.

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Global Exchange

Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic, and environmental justice around the world. They take a holistic approach to creating change and as an education and action resource center.

They advance their vision by working to ensure our members and constituents are empowered locally and connected globally to create a just and sustainable world.

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Greenpeace USA

Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.

Greenpeace wants you to join the fight to save the planet—the threat of global warming, destruction of ancient forests, deterioration of our oceans, and the threat of a nuclear disaster loom large.

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Horizons Project

History has shown that in times of increasing political violence and democratic decline around the world, diverse movements have formed across an ecosystem of actors to protect democracy, stand for non-violence and demand peace.

The Horizons Project recognizes the urgency for this kind of movement to come together now in the United States.

Our vision, mission and values represent our deep commitment to systems-level organizing with the existing ecosystem of social change: i.e. all those working for change with different priorities and from different vantage points across the ideological spectrum.

 

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International Campaign to Ban Land Mines

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is a global network of non-governmental organizations, active in some 100 countries, that works for a world free of landmines, where survivors can lead fulfilling lives.

ICBL seek to prevent all use, production, and trade of these antipersonnel landmines, and to ensure stockpiles are destroyed. ICBL denounce any use of these indiscriminate weapons and mobilize others to do so to further stigmatize them.

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International Center for Nonviolent Conflict

The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) focuses on how civil resistance movements can build their effectiveness and win rights, freedom, and justice.

ICNC's mission is educational. They develop and share knowledge and resources on civil resistance with interested recipients throughout the world. ICNC has a private operating foundation that runs a wide range of programs and also provides limited grant funding.

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International Peace Bureau

The International Peace Bureau is dedicated to the vision of a world without war. Their current programs center on Disarmament for Sustainable Development and the reallocation of military expenditure.

The IPB's 300 member organizations in 70 countries, together with individual members, form a global network, bringing together knowledge and campaigning experience in a common cause. IPB link experts and advocates working on similar issues in order to build strong civil society movements.

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The King Center 

Established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The King Center has been a global destination, resource center and community institution for over a quarter century.

Our mission is to empower people to create a just, humane, equitable and peaceful world by applying Dr. King’s nonviolent philosophy and methodology (Nonviolence365).

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Meta Peace Team

Meta Peace Team pursues peace through active nonviolence in places of conflict. 

MPT trains individuals in nonviolence and places violence reduction peace teams (when invited) in war zones and places of conflict where a there is a likelihood of violence.

MPT has (and is recruiting for) teams in Palestine, the U.S./Mexico Border, and other international sites as well as fielding Domestic Teams within the borders of the United States.

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Metta Center for Nonviolence

The Metta Center is an organization that is committed to the promotion of nonviolence through educational resources. The Center believes that every person has an "innate capacity for nonviolence," and the ability to cultivate transformations on a personal and global scale.   

Guided by the core values nonviolence which include: responsibility, human dignity, compassion, respect for all life.

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M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence is a nonprofit that is dedicated to putting nonviolence in the hands of the people. The Gandhi Institute works with peacemakers in areas like: racial justice, environmental sustainability, restorative practices, and nonviolent education.

By serving as a physical manifestation of Gandhian principles, the goal is to create a just world for all. The Institute seeks to advance the cause of peacemaking regionally, by starting at the local levels.

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National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund

The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund, a national non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, advocates for U.S. federal legislation that would enable conscientious objectors to war

to have their federal income taxes directed to a separate fund which would be used for non-military purposes alone. The Campaign advocates for statutes that establish a means by which the income tax payments of designated conscientious objectors can be directed to non-military purposes.

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Nonviolence.com

Non-Violence inspires, motivates, and engages young people to understand how to solve conflicts peacefully. And Non-Violence meets them where they hang out – at their schools, sports clubs, on the streets, and on the Internet.

Non-violence's educational approach is based on two non-formal education methods - interaction and creativity that focuses on two areas: Education and Raising Awareness.

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Nonviolent Peaceforce

Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is a global civilian protection agency (NGO) based in humanitarian and international human rights law. Our mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side by side

with local communities, and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity. NP envisions a worldwide culture of peace in which conflicts within and between communities and countries are managed through nonviolent means.

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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

NAPF is a part of the international campaign against nuclear weapons, educating and training people to solve the most dangerous issues of our time.

NAPF develops and publicizes education programs in peace literacy, offering tangible tools to the younger generations to navigate crises, embrace struggles, and cultivate world-changing strengths.

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On Earth Peace

OEP is a nonprofit organization developing leaders for justice and peace. OEP helps individuals and community groups who are ready to use active nonviolence to respond to conflict, injustice, and violence.

OEP has an open welcome policy. It is in direct alignment to the values, vision, and mission that guides their work.

 

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Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service

Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service’s mission is to cultivate social change end peace through nonviolent action. Pace e Bene, “Peace and all Good,” is an Italian greeting from St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi. The converted greeting speaks to the organizations values as they promote nonviolence in an effort to create a just world for all.   

Although originally started by Franciscan Friars Pace e Bene is now non-denominational.    Pace e Bene  is known for its worldwide trainings, resources, and organizational achievements.

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Pax Christi USA

A section of Pax Christi International, Pax Christi USA (PCUSA) is a Catholic membership organization that rejects war, preparation for war (disarmament and demilitarization), every form of violence and domination, and personal and systemic racism.

PCUSA is a peace and justice movement that seeks to model the Peace of Christ in their witness to the mandate of the nonviolence of the Cross. PCUSA advocates and provides leadership for reconciliation with justice, inclusiveness, economic and interracial justice, human rights, and care of creation.

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Peace Action

Peace Action is the nation’s largest grassroots peace network that mobilizes communities across states to campaign for global democracy and nonviolence and move forwards peace legislations.

Peace Action organizes its network to place pressure on Congress and the administration through write-in campaigns, internet actions, grassroots lobbying, and direct action. 

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Resource Center for Nonviolence

The Center provides resources for critical reflection and  constructive action, leadership development, and individual and group empowerment by encouraging diverse groups and 

individuals to address social problems by life-affirming, nonviolent means. Recognizing the need to build a more caring and just society, the Resource Center for Nonviolence strives to promote awareness of the inter-connectedness of all of life and of an underlying unity between all persons.

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The Satyagraha Institute 

Satyagraha Institute works to promote the understanding and practice of satyagraha as a way of life and a method for social change through their Nonviolence trainings for leaders.

The Institute seeks to produce the premiere training opportunity for exploring how to create social change using the principles and tools of satyagraha.

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United for Peace

The United for Peace network operates with an all-volunteer Coordinating Committee that makes decisions by consensus concerning how to respond to evolving challenges to peace and justice at home and abroad, 

the critical issues we work to address, and the on-going national campaigns we encourage member groups to support. UFPJ was founded, in 2003, to build a coalition of local and national peace and justice organizations to prevent the War on Iraq. 

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Veterans for Peace

Veterans For Peace is a global organization of Military Veterans and allies whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices.

Veterans for Peace's network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes: educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars.

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Waging Nonviolence

Waging Nonviolence is an independent, non-profit media platform dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world.

Waging Nonviolence believes that when ordinary people organize they have incredible power and are the drivers of social change — not politicians, billionaires, or corporations.

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War Resisters International

War Resisters' International (WRI) is a global pacifist and antimilitarist network with over 90 affiliated groups in 40 countries who strive for a world without war. 

WRI remains committed to their 1921 founding declaration that "War is a crime against humanity. We are therefore determined not to support any kind of war, and to strive for the removal of all causes of war".

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War Resisters League

War Resisters League is the US's oldest secular pacifist organization, working to sow and grow seeds of peace and liberation through education, organizing, strategy, and direct action.

It holds campaigns, training, and workshops against police militarization support organizations led by the youth of color and publishes handbooks for nonviolent movements.

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World House Global Network

The World House Global Network is a collection of nonviolence practitioners. WHGN connects organizations committed to the nonviolent struggle for human rights. The organization operates in the tradition of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Affiliated with Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. The WHGN has offices in the U.S., India, South Africa, and more. The wild reach of the network continues to promote WHGN's message of peace and justice.

 

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