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- Amnesty International on-line - http://www.amnesty.org
Protecting human rights worldwide, AI focuses on the release
of prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for all political
prisoners and the abolition of the death penalty, torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment.
- AFSC National Youth and
Militarism Program - http://www.afsc.org/youthmil.htm
American Friends Service looks at impact of the military and
war on young people. (JROTC, child soldiers, and conscientious objection).
Supports local groups to counter militarism in schools. Extensive resource.
- Albert Einstein Institution - http://www.aeinstein.org/
The mission of the Albert Einstein Institution is to advance
the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict.
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship - http://www.bpf.org/
The mission of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship is to serve as
a catalyst and agent for socially engaged Buddhism. Our aim is to help
beings liberate themselves from the suffering that manifests in individuals,
relationships, institutions, and social systems.
- "By
Reason of Religious Training and Belief..." -
project outlining the development of conscientious objection, its legal
history, and the religious response.
- Coalition for Peace and
Justice - http://members.bellatlantic.net/~norco/
East Coast chapter of National Peace Action and Coalition
for Peace Action.
- Committee Opposed to Militarism and the
Draft (COMD) - http://www.comdsd.org/
An anti-militarism organization that challenges the
institution of the military, its effect on society, its role abroad and at
home, and the various forms of discrimination that are inherent in the armed
forces and Selective Service System.
- Connecticut Peace
Organizations - http://pages.cthome.net/ctpeaceorgs/
Provide information and links to peace organizations.
- Episcopal Peace
Fellowship - http://www.nonviolence.org/archivedsites/epf/
A body within the church whose mission is to aid and
encourage all Episcopalians to strive for justice and peace among all people
and to bear nonviolent witness to christ's call to peace.
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - http://www.loga.org/
Nonprofit for peace, human rights, nonviolence. The Lutheran
Office for Governmental Affairs (LOGA) advocates for just policies in the
world. LOGA has action alerts, background papers, and sample letters on
major issues.
- Fast
Facts: Conscientious Objection and Alternative Service - from the
Selective Service System.
- Instant antiwar action group - http://www.uvm.edu/~sparc/iaag/
Information, literature, merchandise, mailing list and
photographs of an amorphous group of individuals in Vermont, organizing
demonstrations, and raising awareness of U.S. military imperialism.
- International Committee for the
Peace Council - http://www.peacecouncil.org/
The Peace Council is a group of internationally respected
religious persons from many faiths working together in practical ways for
peace and for the common needs of the whole community of life. They build
bridges by the example of non-violence, compassion, human rights, and
universal responsibility, individual and collective.
- Iranaeic Fellowship of God, The -
Christian pacifist organization advocating draft resistance though peaceful
means.
- Life for Relief and Development - http://www.lifeusa.org/
Dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the world
regardless of race, color or cultural background. They strive to offer
humanitarian, health, educational, social and economic services to victims
of natural disasters, wars, hunger and more through a variety of programs.
- Maryland United for Peace and Justice - http://www.mupj.org/
MUPJ is a statewide networking organization which tries to
network between the many groups and individuals working for peace, justice
and a clean environment in a world which uses nonviolent means of conflict
resolution, moves toward sustainable energy, and development and is fair and
just to all humans and the earth.
- Muslim Peace
Fellowship - http://www.nonviolence.org/archivedsites/mpf/
The Muslim Peace Fellowship (Ansar as-Salam) is a gathering
of peace and justice-oriented Muslims of all backgrounds who are dedicated
to making the beauty of Islam evident in the world.
- National Interreligious Service Board for
Conscientious Objectors - http://www.nisbco.org/
Defends and extends the rights of conscientious objectors to
war and violence and provides counseling and legal services to conscientious
objectors, military personnel, political asylum seekers and conscientious
objectors seeking naturalization as U.S. citizens.
- National War Tax Resistance Coordinating
Committee - http://www.nwtrcc.org/
A coalition of groups from across the US formed to provide
information and support to people involved in or considering some form of
war-tax resistance.
- NATO Committed
War Crime in Kosovo - http://www.amnesty-usa.org/nato_report/index.html
Annual Report 2000 by Amnesty International details the war
crimes and shows how US citizens can respond.
- Pax Christi USA - http://www.paxchristiusa.org/
Pax Christi USA strives to create a world that reflects the
Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of
Christian nonviolence.
- Peace Action National - http://www.webcom.com/peaceact/
The United States' largest grassroots peace and justice
organization.
- PeaceTaxPayers - http://www.peacetaxpayers.org/
Provides information and inspiration for those Federal
taxpayers and others who can understand and agree that paying about one half
of each of their Federal income tax dollars to support war and preparations
for war is not a way to make Peace on Earth.
- Ploughshares Fund - http://www.ploughshares.org/
The Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation
that supports initiatives for stopping the spread of weapons of war, from
nuclear arms to landmines.
- PPU: Conscientious Objection -
offers information about the right to refuse in Britain, Europe, and the
United States.
- Selective
Service System - to provide manpower to the armed
forces in an emergency; and to run an Alternative Service Program for men
classified as conscientious objectors during a draft.
- The Central Committee for Conscientious
Objectors - http://objector.org/
CCCO supports conscientious objectors and promotes
individual and collective resistance to war. Site includes information on
alternatives to the military, military discharges, draft registration and
the militarization of schools.
- The Fellowship of Reconciliation - http://www.forusa.org/
FOR seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic
injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith
organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life
and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and
engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and
globally.
- The Jewish Peace
Fellowship - http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/
Jewish Peace Fellowship is a Jewish voice in the peace
community and a peace voice in the Jewish community. We are a
nondenominational Jewish organization committed to active nonviolence as a
means of resolving conflict, drawing on Jewish traditional sources within
the Torah, the Talmud and contemporary peacemaking sages like Martin Buber,
Judah Magnes and Abraham Joshua Heschel.
- The National Campaign for a Peace Tax
Fund - http://www.peacetax.com/
The National Campaign for a Peace Tax fund advocates for
legislation enabling conscientious objectors to war to have their federal
income taxes directed to a special fund which could be used for non-military
purposes only.
- The Nonviolent
Action Community of Cascadia - http://www.nonviolence.org/archivedsites/nacc/
Activities include anti-militarism and social justice
issues.
- The Nuclear Resister - http://www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister/
Published quarterly and serves to network this nonviolent
resistance movement while acting as a clearinghouse for information about
contemporary nonviolent resistance to war and the nuclear threat.
- United States Institute of Peace - http://www.usip.org/
The United States Institute of Peace is a nonpartisan,
independent federal institution created and funded by Congress to strengthen
the nation's capabilities to promote the peaceful resolution of
international conflicts. Established in 1984, the Institute meets its
congressional mandate through an array of programs, including grants,
fellowships, conferences and workshops, library services, publications, and
other educational activities.
- Veterans For Peace - http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
An Organization of veterans from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the
Gulf War, other conflicts, and peactime veterans. Who belive that 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.
- Voices in the Wilderness - http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/
Sends delegations journey to Iraq to break the sanctions
siege and bring desperately needed medical supplies and a message of peace
to children and families.
- War Resisters' International- http://www.wri-irg.org/
Description: Offers support for Conscientious
Objectors and Total Resisters.
- War Resisters League - http://www.warresisters.org/
Committed not only to eliminating war, but the causes of
war-causes intricately linked to the violence that pervades our society.
- Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, US Section - http://www.wilpf.org/
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom works
to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women,
racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to
establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can
assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.¡¡
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