The International Peace Research Association is an international nongovernmental organization of scholars and practitioners studying issues related to sustainable peace.

The Community of Sant’Egidio is an international Catholic organization that has been involved in peacebuilding.

The Carnegie Middle East Center, which is in Beirut, is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Meshal DeSantis is the media director in Washington.

The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, based in Sacramento, Calif., is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is “to assure that people who are guilty of committing crimes receive swift and certain punishment in an orderly and constitutional manner.” Michael Rushford is president, and Kent Scheidegger is legal director/general counsel.

The African Great Lakes Initiative–Friends Peace Teams — a Quaker program – supports and promotes grass-roots peace activities in the Great Lakes region of Africa. One effort brings together genocide survivors and perpetrators in Rwanda and Burundi for reconciliation and healing. The program is based in the Great Lakes region of Africa, with an office […]

Justice For All is a victims’ rights and criminal justice organization that focuses on reducing and prosecuting homicide cases based in Houston. The organization maintains Pro-Death Penalty, a resource site that lists information about victims, and MurderVictims.com.

Read an essay about Islam and the death penalty written by Aslam Abdullah and posted by Beliefnet.com.

The U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., does research and training on peacekeeping.

The United States Institute of Peace, an independent and nonpartisan institution funded by Congress, offers religion and peacemaking resources.