These international efforts connect local initiative with global communities, effecting large scale change.

The Appeal of the Nobel Laureates

Peace appeal of the Nobel Laureates which led to the UN declaring the decade of 2001-2010 to be the International Decade for the promotion of a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence.

American Friends Service Committee

The American Friends Service Committee is an international organization which works towards the abolition of war and the security of human rights. Provides educational resources and programs throughout the world to promote peace, justice, and international understanding. Each program focuses on one area of the world such as the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. National and regional staff members represent AFSC in coalitions working for disarmament and human rights

Buddhist Peace Fellowship

International members focus on disarmament and environmental work with programs in Asia and the United States. Particularly focused countries include Bangladesh, Burma, Tibet, Thailand, and Vietnam. Serves as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism. They are based in Berkeley, California, USA, and they support programs on an international level to promote human rights.

Catholic Relief Services

With peacebuilding programs throughout the world, CRS supports peacebuilding activities in over 40 countries. ?CRS provides direct aid to the poor, and involves people in their own development, helping them to realize their potential. And CRS educates the people of the United States to fulfill their moral responsibilities toward our brothers and sisters around the world by helping the poor, working to remove the causes of poverty, and promoting social justice.?

Ecumenical Peace Institute

The Ecumenical Peace Institute is an explicitly multiracial, interfaith, and activist group working towards peace. They are involved in many struggles by bringing in the religious left. They focus on the issues of racism, militarism, and materialism and they provide education, reflection, and non-violent action to counter these issues. They seek to change perpetuating systems and to develop a community of justice locally and worldwide.

Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace

The annual Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace brings together people from a wide range of spiritual backgrounds, educators, teachers and scholars, people from artistic and cultural backgrounds, people from diverse cultures and traditions, and people from across Scotland and internationally.

Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
For a World of Peace, Justice and Nonviolence

The largest and oldest interfaith peace organization begun in the United States. ?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.?

For the Common Good

A web site to inform about ethical, spiritual, and global issues and to seek humane solutions to the challenges of globalization. Includes inter-religious links and an Interfaith Perspective on Globalization. Provides information bringing local and global solutions together. Arranged and operated by Dr. Josef Boehle.

Global Volunteers

NGO with consultative status with the UN, a foundation for peace through mutual international understanding. They are centered in Minnesota, USA, and they use volunteers to live and work with local people in developing international areas to help with human and economic development.

Good News Agency

Prints positive and constructive global news and distributes publications to many international countries. It is free of charge and carries a positive and peaceful global message.

International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF)

The IARF is an international, inter-religious organization which works to preserve the human right for freedom of religion. They have consultant status with the United Nations and they have representatives in New York and Geneva. Current programs include an interfaith youth project in India, an initiative on Christian-Muslim dialogue, and a religious project in the Philippines.

International Day of Peace Vigil

The UN declared September 21st of every year to be an ?International Day of Peace?. The purpose is to have the entire world observe a day of ?global ceasefire and nonviolence?. The group strives to encourage and promote this 24-hour global Vigil.

Life and Peace Institute

International and ecumenical center for peace research and action. Located in Sweden, they offer global peace research and seminar opportunities.

Pathways to Peace

An international non-profit peacebuilding, educational, and consulting organization centered in California, USA. They work with other international non-profit and non-governmental organizations, and with the United Nations, to manifest peace in the world in all its diverse forms. Also includes the ?WE THE PEOPLES? Initiative for peace.

Pax Christi International

Pax Christi International is a non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement that began in France at the end of World War II. Today, it is comprised of autonomous national sections, local groups, and affiliated organizations worldwide. The movement works in all areas of peace but has a specific focus on demilitarization, security and arms trade, development and human rights, and ecology.

Pax Christi International?s work is based in spirituality. It is a Catholic organization but welcomes all religious groups and strives for dialogue and co-operation with non-governmental organizations and movements working in the same field ? Christian, Jewish, Muslim and non-religious.

Peace Brigades International

Peace Brigades International is a NGO which protects human rights and supports nonviolent peace. They make use of volunteers in areas of repression and conflict to make peace. They work on a global level and they are currently actively working in Columbia, Indonesia, and Mexico.

UNESCO Culture of Peace

UN site on global peace and peacebuilding. They strive for a ?Culture of Peace?, defined as ?a set of values, attitudes, modes of behavior and ways of life that reject violence and prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to solve problems through dialogue and negotiation among individuals, groups and nations.?

Religions for Peace (formerly World Conference of Religion and Peace)

The Religions for Peace is a large international coalition of representatives from the world's great religions who are dedicated to achieving peace. Respecting cultural differences while celebrating common humanity, WCRP is active on every continent and in some of the most troubled places on earth, creating multi-religious partnerships that mobilize the moral and social resources of religious people to address their shared problems.

World Congress of Faiths

WCF works to develop better understanding, co-operation and respect between people of different faiths. They publish the leading journal on interfaith matters called World Faith Encounters.

Peace X Peace

PEACE X PEACE (pronounced “peace by peace”) empowers women as the most effective means to enrich lives locally and promote peace globally. We connect women’s groups (“Circles”) in the United States with women’s Circles everywhere in the world—directly via the Internet—for the exchange of information and personal experiences that typically result in mutually supportive actions.