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.

The Salam Institute for Peace and Justice in Washington, D.C., seeks to bridge differences between Muslims and non-Muslims, both in the West and elsewhere. Its activities include a peacebuilding intervention and training program. Mohammed Abu-Nimer is director and co-founder.

Religions for Peace – USA includes more than 60 religious communities and promotes multireligious cooperation toward peace.

Read an April 1, 2004, essay published on the Orthodox Union’s website about the split opinion on the death penalty in the Jewish community.

The Peace and Justice Studies Association promotes peace studies in schools, colleges and universities. Its 2008 conference, held in September at Portland State University in Oregon, included a “faith and peace” track. Atalia Omer, an assistant professor of sociology at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, […]