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- 20/20 Vision (Washington, DC) - grassroots activist organisation for busy people, which empowers citizens to speak out
for a clean environment and a world free of weapons of mass destruction
- Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign - project of the United Nations Association of the USA, aimed at engaging individuals,
community groups and businesses in the United Nations' effort to remove landmines around the world
- Alan Guttmacher Institute (New York, NY) - nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research,
policy analysis and public educationwhose mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the
United States and throughout the world
- Center for Defense Information (CDI) (Washington, DC) - military research organization committed to independent
research on the social, economic, environmental, political and military components of global security, providing objective
analysis, independent of government or defense industry funding, educating the public and inform policymakers about issues
of security policy, strategy, operations, weapon systems and defense budgeting, and producing creative solutions to the
problems of today and tomorrow
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) (Washington, DC) - policy organization working at the federal and state
levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals
- Council for a Livable World (Washington, DC) - focusses on halting the spread of weapons of mass destruction, opposing
a national missile defense system, cutting Pentagon waste and reducing excessive arms exports
- Federation of American Scientists (FAS) (Washington, DC) - nonprofit organization that combines the scholarly resources
of its member scientists and informed citizens with knowledge of practical politics to undertake policy analysis and
advocacy on issues relating to national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, information
technology, and energy
- Fund For Peace (FFP) (Washington, DC) - organization whose mission is to prevent war and alleviate the conditions that
cause war, by promoting education and research for practical solutions and consistently advocating the promotion of social
justice and respect for the principles of constitutional democracy
- Global Exchange (San Francisco, CA) - international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental,
political and social justice, by increasing the US public's global awareness while building partnerships worldwide
- Interfaith Alliance (Washington, DC) - non-partisan, clergy-led grassroots organization dedicated to promoting the
positive, healing role of faith in civic life and challenging intolerance and extremism
- Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute (ICRI) (Bloomington, IN) - dedicated to the understanding and expansion of conflict
and dispute resolution in public and private arenas, with research underwritten by the United States Postal Service, the
National Institutes of Health, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, and the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation
- National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) (Washington, DC) - works for world peace, understanding and well-being, by
educating the public about other countries and cultures, mobilizing the Peace Corps community, supporting the Peace
Corps and its policies and programs, and promoting domestic and international community service
- National Peace Foundation (NPF) (Washington, DC) - independent organisation whose mission is to strengthen the
foundations for peacebuilding, peace education and conflict resolution by promoting democratic justice through
partnerships, intercultural exchanges and citizen networks
- Nonviolence Web (Philadelphia, PA) - media organisation that acts as a source of up-to-minute news and commentary on
peace and nonviolence and as a guide to the contemporary peace movement in the U.S.
- Nuclear Control Institute (NCI) (Washington, DC) - independent research and advocacy center specializing in problems of
nuclear proliferation by monitoring nuclear activities worldwide and pursuing strategies to halt the spread and reverse the
growth of nuclear arms
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service/World Information Service on Energy (NIRS/WISE) (Washington, DC) -
information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive
waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues
- Pax World Service (Washington, DC) - non-profit philanthropic organization that works toward a more just and equitable
world by initiating and supporting innovative, catalytic programs that encourage peacemaking and reconciliation, citizen
diplomacy, sustainable development, and strengthening civil society, and by working in partnership with community-based
organizations in emergency relief, post-conflict rehabilitation, micro-enterprise, and development of civil society
- Peace Corps (Washington, DC) - U.S. government sponsored service with more than 7,300 volunteers serving in 70
countries, working to bring clean water to communities, teach children, help start new small businesses, and stop the
spread of AIDS
- Peace Development Fund (PDF) (Amherst, MA) - public foundation that provides grants, training and other resources in
partnership with communities, organizations, trainers and donors in order to strengthen a broad-based social justice
movement that embodies, embraces and honors many cultures to create the new systems and institutions essential to
building a peaceful, just and equitable world
- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) (Philadelphia, PA) - carries out service, development, social justice, and
peace programs throughout the world, based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of
love to overcome violence and injustice
- Peace Studies Association (PSA) (Richmond, IN) - organization of individuals and of college and university academic
programs for the study of peace, conflict, justice and global security
- Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA) (Cambridge, MA) - seeks to adapt security policy to the challenges and
opportunities of the post-Cold War era by promoting consideration of the broadest range of defense options and the
development of "transitional security policy", which would serve to create conditions favorable to the advent of regional and
global cooperative security regimes
- Randolph Bourne Institute (RBI) - nonprofit educational foundation that seeks to promote a non-interventionist foreign
policy for the United States as the best way of fostering a peaceful, more prosperous world
- SERVAS United States (New York, NY) - worldwide cooperative cultural exchange network composed of member
hosts and travelers working together to foster peace, goodwill and mutual respect
- Shundahai Network (Las Vegas, NV) - nonprofit organization of nuclear disarmament activists which has evolved into an
international network of activists and organizations bridging the gap between the environmental, peace and justice and
indigenous land rights communities, and opposing all nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production
- Small Arms Survey (Geneva) - independent research project which serves as the principal international source of public
information on all aspects of small arms, and as a resource centre for governments, policy makers, researchers, and
activists
- U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) (Boston, MA) - coalition of more than 500 U.S.-based human rights,
humanitarian, faith-based, children's, peace, disability, veterans', medical, development, academic, and environmental
organizations dedicated to a total ban on antipersonnel landmines, and one of 90 country campaigns that form the
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
- Veterans for Peace (VFP) (St Louis, MO) - national non-profit organisation of men and women veterans from World War
II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War and other conflicts, as well as peactime veterans, whose collective experience tells that
wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent
- Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) (Washington, DC) - international humanitarian organization that
addresses the causes, conduct and consequences of war through programs of advocacy and service for victims of conflict
around the world.
- Welfare Law Center (New York, NY) - works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income
support, including public funding provided on the basis of need, is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet
basic needs and foster healthy human and family development
- Women In International Security (WIIS) (Washington, DC) - international, nonpartisan educational networking
organization dedicated to increasing the role of women in foreign and defense affairs by raising their numbers and visibility,
offering a comprehensive set of programs designed to foster and promote women leaders in all sectors - government,
business, think tanks, academia and the media
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