Catholic Relief Services, based in Baltimore, has a peacebuilding unit that has been working worldwide since the mid-1990s through development, education, advocacy, diplomacy and a variety of other means. Nikki Gamer is the senior public affairs manager.

Brackney is a professor of Christian Thought & Ethics at Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada.  He researches Amish religious practice and culture. He also does research on human rights and global ethics, as well as Baptist theology and history.  

The Life & Peace Institute, based in Uppsala, Sweden, is an international ecumenical research and practice institute focused on conflict transformation. Contact through the website.

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 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 […]

The Catholic Peacebuilding Network connects practitioners and scholars to strengthen Catholic peacebuilding in areas of conflict.

Andrea Bartoli holds the Drucie French Cumbie Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Arlington, Va. His publications include “Christianity and Peacebuilding” in Religion and Peacebuilding. He has been involved in many conflict resolution activities as a member of the Community of Sant’Egidio.

J. Dudley Woodberry is professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. He co-edited Muslim and Christian Reflections on Peace: Divine and Human Dimensions.