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 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.

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, […]

Interfaith Peace-Builders was begun by the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 2000 in response to the second Palestinian intifada. It has organized 28 delegations to the Middle East to observe conditions in Israel and Palestine. Delegation members can be made available to speak to the press.

Christian Peacemaker Teams send groups of people trained in nonviolence to the world’s trouble spots. Members of a CPT team were kidnapped in Iraq in late 2005, and one of them was subsequently murdered. The group has offices in Chicago and Canada.

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