Organizations and projects that fall into the AFWW cornerstone category of promoting nonviolent conflict resolution

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Abolition 2000
An international global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework. Open to all organizations endorsing the Abolition 2000 Statement. Aims to provide groups concerned with nuclear issues a forum for exchange of information and development of joint initiatives. Meets once a year and has ongoing communications via list serves, conferences, teleconferencing, and periodic mailings.
The Albert Einstein Institution
A nonprofit organization advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. Committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action. Seeks to understand the dynamics of nonviolent action in conflicts, to explore its policy potential, and to communicate this through print and other media, translations, conferences, consultations, and workshops.
Alliance for Peace Building
A coalition of organizations working to build sustainable peace and security worldwide. Members are directly engaged in applied conflict prevention and resolution: provide negotiation and mediation services, train negotiators, facilitate communication to break down barriers, help find solutions to the issues that otherwise drive groups and nations to achieve their objectives through violent force, conduct research, and provide evaluation and education.
Center for Global Nonkilling
​​The Center for Global Nonkilling has a unique mission that is both inspirational for individuals and transformative for societies: To promote change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world by means open to human creativity and in reverence for life. To make every person a center for global nonkilling requires innovative research, global education &training, as well as a monitoring program that measures progress and reveals the way forward.
The Center for Nonviolent Communication
​​A global organization whose vision is a world where all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully. In this vision, people are using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to create and participate in networks of worldwide life-serving systems in economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping. They facilitating the creation of life-serving systems within the individual, interpersonally, and within organizations. They do this by living and teaching Nonviolent Communication. Marshall Rosenberg is the founder and creator of this method of communication.
Center for Partnership Studies
The Center for Partnership Studies conducts research and develops and disseminates education on the partnership model. It provides information and tools to promote the shift from domination to partnership in all aspects of society - from families and education to economics and politics. 
Citizens for Global Solutions
​Envisions a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone. This vision requires effective democratic global institutions that will apply the rule of law while respecting the diversity and autonomy of national and local communities.
FOR - The Fellowship of Reconciliation
Composed of women and men who recognize the essential unity of all creation and join together to explore the power of love and truth for resolving human conflict. Vigorous in its opposition to war, the Fellowship has insisted equally that this effort must be based on a commitment to the achieving of a just and peaceful world community, with full dignity and freedom for every human being. Committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. They also have a youth program.
Friends Committee on National Legislation - FCNL
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is the largest peace lobby in Washington, DC., founded by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Work to advocate social and economic justice, peace, and good government and using nonviolent means. We seek a world free of war and the threat of war. We seek a society with equity and justice for all. We seek a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled. We seek an earth restored.
Global Nonviolent Action Data Base
A massive resource of examples that can be used by 1) activists who want to be more effective by accessing a database of actual campaigns, to get ideas for creative nonviolent strategies and tactics; b) scholars and writers researching alternatives to violence who will have a global database with hundreds of cases where people used nonviolent action to struggle for human rights, eco-justice, democracy.
Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT)
An International resource, research and training center that includes all areas of violence, abuse and trauma. Mission is to improve the quality of life on a local, national, and international level by promoting violence-free living.
International Center for Conciliation
Most conflict resolution puts the past to one side, searching for present interests. ICFC believes that that the past is never over, and historical grievance is ever available to stir up conflict unless addressed. The ICFC approach is to address the past, memory in particular, as something that must be worked through before mutual relations can ripen into collaboration. This approach is new and can be used in workshops on mediation techniques that engage historical narrative, and also through the arts, memorialization projects, and public diplomacy.
International Center for Nonviolent Conflict
An independent, nonprofit foundation that encourages civilian-based, nonmilitary strategies to establish and defend human rights, democracy and justice worldwide. Uses television, the Internet, and off-air and offline media to disseminate programming, books and learning materials for schools and universities. Conducts meetings and briefings, co-sponsors conferences, provides articles to encourage institutions and decision makers to support nonviolent movements. Provides support for workshops in nonviolent conflict for activists and citizens considering civilian-based, nonviolent action.
Interactions for Peace
IFP provides a seamless system of integrated programs which empower and inspire our youth to discover the peacemaker within themselves and to serve their community through peaceful interactions. The programs are designed for ages preschool through middle school.
Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
Fostering peace, cultivating justice, and creating a safer world. Through education, research, and peacemaking activities, the Institute offers programs that advance scholarship and practice in conflict resolution and human rights. Draws upon Catholic social teaching that sees peace as inseparable from justice and acts to prevent and resolve conflicts that threaten local, national and international peace. A large auditorium for public events and four housing units for resident scholars and dignitaries.
​The King Center
The institutional guardian of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy. Develops educational programs about the philosophy and methods of creating nonviolent social change. Also programs about service to mankind. Works to build a network of organizations dedicated to these causes. Is a clearinghouse for NGOs and government agencies which utilize Dr. King’s image and writings to ensure that they are historically and interpretively accurate. Manages visitor services for Freedom Hall. Monitors the impact of Dr. King’s legacy on the world
Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence
By combining and sharing the spirit, science, skills, arts, institutions, and resources of all, the Center can serve as a significant contributor to leadership for nonviolent global transformation. The goal is to be a creative facilitator of research, education-training, and problem-solving leadership. There are plans to create a Global Nonviolence Leadership Academy.
Mediators Without Borders
Brings together experienced mediators to collaborate and participate in mitigating violent conflict and organizing alternative approaches to expressing, negotiating, and resolving political, economic, social, ethnic, and religious differences. By fostering collaborative initiatives in partnership with local indigenous efforts, assists in building local capacity and training in ways that encourage forgiveness and reconciliation and integrate peace with justice. Has student chapters.
The Metta Center
The mission is to inspire, educate and support the practice of nonviolence. Works with educators, activists, the media, and anyone who wishes to learn and practice what Gandhi called “the greatest force at the disposal of humanity”. Seeks to teach how the engagement of nonviolent power is not just for liberation struggles against entrenched regimes but as a way of changing cultures so that we all can take part in a popular movement toward peace.
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Founded in 1991 by the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and his wife AND hosted by Christian Brothers University. Programs focus on conflict prevention, anger management, diversity training, and relationship-and community-building. These include the Alternative Spring Break, the interactive nonviolence and diversity-training workshop Faces In The Crowd, the annual Behind the Prison Walls prisoner essay contest, and the international Season for Nonviolence grassroots community-building campaign. Monthly public discussion forums, and others.
National Conflict Resolution Center
The National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) is a full service alternative dispute resolution provider operating as a private, non-profit corporation in San Diego, CA.
Nonviolent Peaceforce
A federation of over 90 Member Organizations from around the world. In partnership with local groups, unarmed Nonviolent Peaceforce Field Team members apply proven strategies to protect human rights, deter violence, and help create space for local peacemakers to carry out their work. The mission of the Nonviolent Peaceforce is to build a trained, international civilian peaceforce committed to third-party nonviolent intervention.
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
​Initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, strengthen international law and institutions, and to empower a new generation of peace leaders. An a non-partisan international education and advocacy organization with consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Speakers bureau and publications.
The Peace Alliance
​A campaign to establish a U.S. Department of Peace (House Resolution 3760 and Senate 1756). Throughout America, there are countless peace-builders and peace-building projects. Peace is more than the absence of war; it is a positive state of being predicated on the presence of a peaceful heart. The mission of the Peace Alliance is to move this realization to a central place within our national understanding ... an issue critical to our national security. Dorothy Maver, Exec. Dir. Of Peace Alliance.
Peace Brigades
A non-governmental organization (NGO) which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts. When invited, PB sends teams of volunteers into areas of repression and conflict. The volunteers accompany human rights defenders, their organizations and others threatened by political violence. Perpetrators usually do not want the world to witness their actions. The presence of volunteers backed by a support network helps to deter violence. We create space for local activists to work for social justice and human rights.
Peace Party
The Peace Party is a national UK political party, committed to campaigning for peace in all areas of society and culture.
Ploughshares Fund
The Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives to prevent the spread and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of war, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction.
SAVE
​A student driven organization. Students learn about alternatives to violence and practice what they learn through school and community service projects. As they participate in SAVE activities, students learn crime prevention and conflict management skills and the virtues of good citizenship, civility, and nonviolence.
School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Dedicated to : 1) Advancing the understanding of deeply rooted conflicts between individuals, groups, organizations, and communities in the United States and the world through research, teaching, practice, and outreach 2) Carrying on a systematic study of the origins and types of social conflicts 3) Developing the requisite processes and conditions for the productive resolution of conflict.
Search for Common Ground
Works, since 1982, to transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. Work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.
Seeds of Peace
Dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the skills to advance reconciliation and coexistence. From 46 Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian teenagers in 1993, the organization still focuses on the Middle East but now includes youths from South Asia, Cyprus and the Balkans. Its network encompasses over 2,500 young people. The program begins at the International Camp in Maine and continues through follow-up at the Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem, international youth conferences, regional workshops, and an adult educator program.
Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF)
Provides a powerful and proven school-based violence prevention education program - the Violence Impact Forum (VIF) - for students in the 4th - 8th grades to inspire and empower them to say no to gangs, guns and violence. Founded by Azim Khamisa upon the death of his son, Tariq.
Traprock Foundation
An example of a highly active local organization that reaches out. Stated goal is to explore nonviolence, foster community, work to end war, promote communication and take initiatives on justice and environmental issues.
The University for Peace
The university, located in Costa Rica, has the mission to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings a spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples, and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace...in keeping with the...Charter of the United Nations.
Veterans for Peace
Members are veterans of all eras and duty stations as far back as the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary. We work to 1) raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war - and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives, 2) participate in efforts to save VA healthcare 3) defend veterans' rights; 4) protect our civil liberties threatened by repressive legislation; 5) provide counseling through the GI Rights Hotline to active duty military, 6) providing alternative information to counter military recruiters in schools.
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Organizing NV resistance efforts by drawing upon experiences of those who have engaged in active nonviolent resistance (draft resistance; resistance to the wars in Latin America; resistance to nuclear weapons, such as the Plowshares, work on peace teams in Haiti, Yugoslavia and Iraq. Language fluency is a key element of efforts to form peace teams; several Voices activists are mastering the basics of Arabic and Farsi. Organize NV projects, such as 2007 Operation Occupation (its goal is an end to the war in and occupation of Iraq; cancellation of all debt incurred by the Saddam Hussein regime; cancellation of the war reparations charges imposed against Iraq by the U.N.; full payment of war reparations by the U.S. to Iraq for reconstruction. Provides speakers.
Waging Nonviolence
This blog is an intensely active, not passive, struggle for justice by the only means worthy of the goal. A community and a resource for news, analysis and discussion on ways ordinary people around the globe are using nonviolence, often under the most difficult circumstances. Activists, students, scholars and critics, as well as those just discovering nonviolence, are invited to read and take part.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
WILPF members create the peaceful transformation they wish to see in the world by making connections that: Provide continuity with the past so that knowledge of historical events and patterns informs current activities for change; Create analysis and action that reflect and reinforce each other; Link and challenge root causes of oppression, especially racism, sexism, heterosexism, militarism, economic disparity, and political disempowerment; and Build and strengthen relationships and movements for justice, peace, and radical democracy.
Please keep in mind that these links do not reflect our endorsement of the organizations, their products, or services. While we have tried to select carefully, AFWW has no control over the content of these sites and cannot guarantee the appropriateness of the sites from day to day or the quality of the organization's work. Last updated 8/17.