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Organisations active in the promotion of peaceful solutions to global problems
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- Peace Groups
- Coalition for Global Solidarity (ICL-Praxis for Peace) - global network of practitioners and scholars working for peace and
development by peaceful means
- Hague Appeal for Peace (New York, NY) - international network of peace and justice organizations dedicated to sowing the
seeds for the abolition of war through the implementation of the Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century, a set
of 50 recommendations developed at the Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in 1999, the largest international peace
conference in history
- International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) (Dortmund, Germany) - non-profit,
non-governmental organization concerned about the impact of science and technology on society
- International Peace Bureau (IPB) (Geneva, Switzerland) - the world´s oldest and most comprehensive international peace
federation, bringing together people working for peace in many different sectors, including only pacifists and women´s, youth,
labour, religious and professional bodies
- International University of Peoples' Institutions for Peace (Italy) - promotes a global culture of peace in the spirit of UNESCO
- Lawyers Without Borders, Inc. - conflict resolution, mediation, peacemaking, human rights and government building
- Life and Peace Institute (Sweden) - aims to further the causes of justice, peace and reconciliation through a combination of
research, seminars and publications
- National Peace Foundation (NPF) - promulgate peacebuilding and conflict resolution at every level, from the community, to the
regional, to the national and international
- Network of Communities for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (United States) - promotes non-violent approaches to the
resolution of conflict
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) - pursues the goal of creating a safer, more secure world
through a variety of programs that address issues of violence, weapons of mass destruction, international law, the constructive
uses of science and technology, education and youth empowerment
- Pax Christi International (Brussels, Belgium) - non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale
on a wide variety of issues in the fields of human rights, security and disarmament, economic justice and ecology
- United Religions Initiative (URI) (United Kingdom) - promotes enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated
violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) (Geneva) - non-government organisation with national sections
in 37 countries, which aims to bring together women of different political beliefs and philosophies who are united in their
determination to study, make known and help abolish the causes and the legitimization of war; to work toward world peace,
total and universal disarmament, the abolition of violence and coercion in the settlement of conflict and its replacement in every
case by negotiation and conciliation; and to support the civil society to democratise the United Nations system
- World Association for the School as an Instrument of Peace (EIP) (Geneva) - international non-governmental organisation that
carries out its activities in the area of human rights and peace education, working to heighten an awareness within educational
circles, governmental authorities and public opinion and to develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge that enhance human
rights, fundamental freedoms and non-violent conflict resolution
- World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP) (New York, NY) - international coalition of representatives from the world's
great religions who are dedicated to achieving peace ande respecting cultural differences while celebrating our common
humanity
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- Arms Control
- Abolition 2000 (Erie, PA, USA) - global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework
by providing groups concerned with nuclear issues a forum for the exchange of information and the development of joint
initiatives
- Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (CADU) (Manchester, UK) - focuses specifically on trying to achieve a global ban on the
manufacture, testing, and use of depleted uranium weapons
- Desert Concerns (Cambridge, UK) - aims to give grassroots support to communities suffering from the radiological and
toxicological effects of war
- International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) (London, UK) - global network of civil society organisations working to stop
the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW) by raising awareness among policymakers, the public and
the media about the global threat to human security caused by small arms and promoting the work of NGOs to prevent small
arms proliferation through national and local legislation, regional agreements, public education and research
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) (Washington, Paris) - calls for an international ban on the use, production,
stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines, the signing, ratification, implementation, and monitoring of
the mine ban treaty, increased resources for humanitarian demining and mine awareness programs, and increased resources for
landmine victim rehabilitation and assistance
- International Humanist and Ethical Union (London) - international NGO working to promote the interests of humanists,
rationalists, secularists, ethical culturists, atheists and those with a Laique orientation
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (USA) - global federation of national medical organizations
in more than 60 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war, seeking to
prevent all wars, to promote non-violent conflict resolution, and to minimize the effects of war and preparations for war on health,
development, and the environment
- Military Toxics Project (Lewiston, ME, USA) - aims to unite activists, organizations, and communities in the struggle to clean
up military pollution, safe-guard the transportation of hazardous materials, and to advance the development and implementation
of preventative solutions to the toxic and radioactive pollution caused by military activities
- People against Landmines
- United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (Geneva) - international security, the armaments race and disarmament,
particularly in the nuclear field, aimed at greater security for all States
- Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control (Washington, DC) - private, non-profit, non-partisan foundation that carries out
research and public education designed to inhibit the spread of nuclear weapons, chemical/biological weapons and long-range
missiles
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- Conflict Resolution
- Albert Einstein Institution (Boston, USA) - advances the study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict by defending
democracy, opposing oppression and reducing reliance on violence
- Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management (Berlin) - studies and analyses ethno-political conflicts in
Europe
- Centre for the Investigation of Peace (Centro de Investigación para la Paz) (Spain) - investigates global conflicts and offers
alternatives
- Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (University of Sydney, Australia) - promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching on the
causes of conflict and the conditions which affect conflict resolution and peace
- Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (USA) - programs, activities, and publications in peace, war, social justice, arms control,
global issues, and conflict resolution
- Centre for Peace and Development Studies (Ireland) - studies conflict and its resolution in Ireland and elsewhere, to understand
how conflict develops and how it is most effectively resolved
- Center for War/Peace Studies (CW/PS) (New York, NY) - non-profit organization whose central objective is to establish an
international political and legal system that will make possible the abolition of war
- Conflict Management Group (CMG) (Cambridge, MA, USA) - contributes to the reduction and prevention of the violence that
leads to human rights abuses and impoverishment by improving the negotiating skills of those coping with international conflict
- Conciliation Resources (CR) (London) - multi-racial and international organization which serves as an international resource for
local organizations pursuing peacebuilding and conflict resolution initiatives, with the aim of supporting the sustained activities of
those working at community or national levels to prevent or transform armed conflict into opportunities for social, political and
economic development based on more just relationships
- Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (Fairfax, VA, USA) - analysis of conflict between and within nations and ethnic,
religious, and identity groups
- Institute of World Affairs (Washington, DC) - non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to international understanding and the
peaceful resolution of conflict, conducting a range of programs designed to prevent violent conflict and to advance post-conflict
peacebuilding, and operating several long-term development and post-conflict reconciliation projects in the Middle East, West
Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean
- International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) (Washington University, MO, USA) - aims to encourage scholars and
practitioners to develop and disseminate theory, research and experience that is useful for understanding and improving conflict
management in family, organizational, societal, and international settings
- Peace Research Information Unit Bonn (PRIUB) (Bonn, Germany) - national and international advice, information, and service
centre covering the whole field of research into peace and conflict
- Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) (Germany) - independent foundation for public justice whose work is directed towards
identifying the causes of violent international and internal conflicts, carrying out research into the conditions necessary for
peace, and spreading the concepts of peace, with research results converted into practically orientated options for action that
find their way into the public debate
- Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA) (Cambridge, MA, USA) - promotes consideration of the broadest range of defense
options, focussing on the development of "transitional security policy", which would serve to create conditions favorable to the
advent of regional and global cooperative security regimes
- Saferworld (London) - independent foreign affairs think tank working to identify, develop and publicise more effective approaches
to preventing armed conflict
- Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Peace Research (Kiel, Germany) - independent academic institution which carries out basic and
application-oriented academic work in topics relevant to the maintenance of peace, with the aim of improving the state of
knowledge on the conditions leading to integration, non-violence, and justice in the international system as well as in individual
societies
- Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF) (Lund, Sweden) - independent think-tank whose mission is
peace through learning to handle conflicts with ever less violence, using new ideas, listening, research, mitigation, education
and advocacy
- Search For Common Ground (SFCG) (Washington, DC) - non-government organisation that aims to transform the way the world
deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches towards cooperative solutions
- Peace and Development Research Institute (PADRIGU) (Göteborg University, Sweden) - educational institution specialising in
peace and development
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- Cooperation and Dialogue
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) (Washington, DC) - private non-profit oganisation dedicated to advancing
cooperation among nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States
- SERVAS International (Vienna, Austria) - international, non-governmental peace organization, based on understanding,
tolerance and world peace, that promotes peace through personal contacts
- International Progress Organization (IPO) (Vienna, Austria) - international non-governmental organization that aims to encourage
cultural exchange between all nations, attempts to promote tolerance towards all nationalities and cultures, and emphasizes
human liberties, social and economic development, peace, and the international rule of law
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- Genocide
- Institute for the Study of Genocide (ISG) (New York, NY) - advance and review research into the instances, causes and
consequences of genocide worldwide, and advise media, governments and intergovernmental organizations concerned with early
warning and prevention of genocide
- International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) (New York, NY) - advance and review research into the instances,
causes and consequences of genocide worldwide, and advise media, governments and intergovernmental organizations
concerned with early warning and prevention of genocide
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- Media
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) (UK) - supports democratisation and development in crisis zones by providing an
international platform, professional training and financial assistance to independent media
- International Alert (London) - standing international forum on ethnic conflict, genocide and human rights, formed to address the
root causes of violence and contribute to the just and peaceful transformation of violent internal conflict
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- Pacifism
- War Resisters' International (WRI) (London) - network of independent organisations in more than 35 countries which promotes
nonviolent action against the causes of war, and supports and connects people around the world who refuse to take part in war
or the preparation of war, including conscientious objectors and asylum seekers and their lawyers
- United World Demilitarization Organization (UWDO) - anti-war pacifist organisation that aims to demilitarize the world by
bringing all defense ministries of all governments under our control
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