PEACE RESOURCES

 

ORGANIZATIONS

American Friends Service Center

1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. This center is the base for all of the Quaker service committees.

Campaign for a Nuclear Free America
325 East 25th Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)

P.O. Box 15796, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Agency for Military and Draft Counseling. This organization works to prevent a military draft and gives military counseling to those desiring CO status. It also helps those desiring discharge upgrading.

Children’s International Summer Village

 
"CISV provides a range of unique, educational group activities, which develop cross-cultural understanding in children and youth from around the world. By encouraging respect for cultural differences and the development of self-awareness, CISV empowers each participant to incorporate these values into their lives as they become global citizens and strive for a more peaceful world."

 

Children’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
105 Brownell Street, New Haven, CT 06511

The Educational Film and Video Projects
1725 B Seabright Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 15062

The Global Ethic Foundation for intercultural research, education, and encounter

A think tank with aims to research and disseminate information on inter-cultural and inter-faith issues to work toward a global ethic.

Mennonite Central Committee
21 South 12th Street, Akron, PA 17501

National Peace Academy Campaign

1625 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 123, Washington, D.C. 20006. An organization working for the establishment of a United States Academy for Peace and Conflict Resolution on a par with the military academies.

The Nobel Peace Prize

Aside from humanitarian work and peace movements, the Prize has been awarded to a wide field of work including advocacy of human rights, mediation of international conflicts and arms control and disarmament. The site includes links to their Nobel Peace Center and Symposia.

Parents for Peace and Justice

4144 Lindell Boulevard, #400, St. Louis, MO 63108. This organization provides a newsletter, training workshops, books, puppets, filmstrips, videos, programs, and activities for parents and organizations.

Pax Christi

345 East 9th Street, Erie, PA 16503. A national center for the Roman Catholic peace witness.

Sojourners
Sojourners is a Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice. Box 29272, Washington, D.C. 20017

Union of Concerned Scientists
26 Church Street, Cambridge, MA 02238

The United Nations
Preserving world peace is a central purpose of the United Nations. Under the

Charter, Member States agree to settle disputes by peaceful means and refrain from threatening or using force against other States.

 

The United States Institute of Peace Its mandate established by Congress is “to support the development, transmission, and se of knowledgeto promote peace and curb violent international confict… through the widest possible range of education and training, basic and applied research opportunities, and peace information services on the means to promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts among the nations and people of the world without recourse to violence.”

 

World Federalist Association
418 7th Street, S.E., Washington D.C. 20003

 

BOOKS

 

Küng, Hans (1990) Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic, London: SCM Press, 158 pp. This is a remarkable manifesto for thinking people of faith. The Introduction to this book begins: No survival without a world ethic. No world peace without peace between religions. No peace between religions without dialogue between the religious.” Doesn’t that get the discussion going? This is a logical preamble toward world peace—or as much as can be obtained. See Global Ethic Foundation (above).

 

Küng, Hans, ed. (1995) Yes, To A Global Ethic, London: SCM Press, 239 pp. Here a remarkable group of world leaders respond to  Küng’s argument for a global ethic and add their own ideas.

 

 

Stassen, Glen, ed. (1998) Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War, Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 209 pp. During the 1990s some 23 American scholars, representing pacifists and just war advocates, collaborated to lay out a plan for individuals, grass roots groups, voluntary associations, and religious organizations could work together for peace. The ten practices are laid out in ten chapters are make excellent places from which to carry on discussion.

 

 

Woodbery, J. Dudley, Osman Zümrüt, and Mustafa Köylü, eds. (2005) Muslim and Christian Reflections on Peace: Divine and Human Dimensions, University Press, 172 pp. “This book presents biblical and qur’anic analyses of human nature which lie at the heart of conflicts.” The New Testament account of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus as the divine response to human evildoing as the divine response to human violence and evildoing” is explained as a legitimate interpretation of the Qur’an by some Muslim scholars. This book provokes reflection on how diverse religions can find

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