The Awareness Center was the Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault, an international organization that addresses sexual violence in Jewish communities. It had a certification program for rabbis interested in working with victims of sexual violence. It closed in 2014, but the site is still provided for educational and historical purposes.

The Muslim Women’s League is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the status of women in the American Muslim community. Part of its mission is to create awareness about domestic violence within the American Muslim Community. It is based in Los Angeles.

The Peaceful Families Project produces workshops nationwide on domestic violence from a Muslim perspective. The organization is based in Great Falls, Virginia. Lina Hashem is president.

Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet is an associate professor of psychology at Hope College in Holland, Mich. Forgiveness and health constitute one of her primary areas of interest, and she is researching how the emotion of forgiveness relates to health.

Carl Thoresen is a professor emeritus of education, psychology and psychiatry/behavioral sciences at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Spirituality and Health Institute at Santa Clara University. His most recent book is, as co-editor, Spirit, Science and Health: How the Spiritual Mind Fuels Physical Wellness.

June Tangney is a psychology professor at George Mason University near Washington, D.C., who has studied how individual traits and situations contribute to forgiveness.  

Laurie Anne Pearlman co-founded the Traumatic Stress Institute and the Trauma Research, Education and Training Institute, where she still serves as president. She also directs the Clinical Associates Program of the Headington Institute, which offers psychological and spiritual support to relief and development workers around the world. She serves on the practice committee of the American Psychological […]

Michael E. McCullough is professor of psychology and religious studies at the University of Miami in Coral Cables, Fl. He directs the Laboratory for Social Clinical Psychology, where the consequences of forgiveness and related moral emotions and their effects on health and well-being are being studied. He is co-editor of Forgiveness: Theory, Research and Practice and author of […]

Dacher Keltner is a psychology professor at the University of California , Berkeley; co-director of the Greater Good Science Center; and director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory. His research focuses on “prosocial” emotions, such as love, sympathy and gratitude.