Groups & Organizations

Peace Organizations

Global Country of World Peace
The Global Peace Initiative
Global Alliance for World Peace
The US Institute of Peace
Ministry of Peace
United States Department of Peace supporters
Fair Trade.org
David Lynch Foundation
The Global Union of Scientists for Peace (GUSP)
Voters for Peace
Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Alaskans for Palestine
American Friends Service Committee – Great Lakes Region
American Friends Service Committee – National
American Muslims for Palestine
Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights
Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights
BDS Earlham
Central New York Working for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel
Citizens for Justice in the Middle East
Coalition for Peace with Justice
Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel
CODEPINK NYC
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine
Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
Committee for Justice in the Middle East- Madison
Committee for Palestinian Rights
Congregation of St. Joseph’s – Cleveland
Corvallis-Albany Friends of Middle East Peace
Davis Committee for Palestinian Rights
Episcopal Bishop’s Committee for Israel/Palestine
Friends of Palestine
Friends of Sabeel- Colorado
Friends of Sabeel- Hawaii
Friends of Sabeel- North America
Global Exchange
Holy Cross Melkite – Greek Catholic Church
Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)-USA
Justice First Foundation
Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents of War
Keep Hope Alive- Olive Project
Madison Area Peace Coalition
Madison-Rafah Sister City Project
MADRE
Methodist Federation for Social Action
Michigan Peace Team
Middle East Children’s Alliance-MECA
MidEast: Just Peace
Minnesota Break The Bonds Campaign
National Lawyers Guild International Committee
North West Middle East Peace Forum
Northern Illinois End the Occupation Organization
Northern Virginians for Peace and Justice
Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel
Palestine Action Group- Corvallis
Palestine Center
Palestine Solidarity Committee – Seattle
Peace Action Montgomery
Peace Action of San Mateo County
Philly BDS
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis Province
SLU Solidarity with Palestine
The Home for Peace and Justice
Tiffin Area Pax Christi
Tikkun Chicago
U.S. Peace Council
United Methodist Task Force on Peace with Justice in Palestine/Israel
University of New Mexico Coalition for Peace & Justice in the Middle East
Upper Hudson Peace Action
Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land
Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace
Way to Jerusalem COF FOJ
Western Horizons
Wisconsin Middle East Lobby Group
Women in Black Union Square
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
The World Peace Foundation
Peace Corps Kids World
World Peace Project for Children
World Peace Day
Coalition For World Peace
WORLD PEACE ONE
Professors World Peace Academy
Institute For Individual And World Peace
Peace Alliance
3D Security
Foreign Assistance Act Reform
Ministry of Peace

Coalitions of Peace Groups

Win Without War (WWW)
A coalition of national organizations representing broad constituencies that aim to keep America safe by advocating that international cooperation and enforceable international law provide the greatest security for the United States and the world.

United for Peace and Justice (UPJ)
A coalition of more than 1300 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to oppose the U.S. government’s policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.

General Peace Groups

Peace Action
Through national and grassroots citizen action, works to redirect federal spending from military to human needs, abolish nuclear weapons, end the international arms trade, and foster the peaceful resolution of conflicts. Formerly Sane-Freeze.

CodePink Women for Peace
A women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive nonviolent direct action.

War Resisters League (WRL)
Uses peaceful means to try to create a society that is peaceful, democratic, and free of economic, racial, and sexual oppression — seeking not only to eliminate war, but the causes of war.

Council for a Livable World (CLW)
Provides U.S. Senators with technical and scientific information that helps them make intelligent decisions about nuclear arms control, strategic and conventional weapons, the military budget, and United Nations peacekeeping.

Just Foreign Policy
An independent and non-partisan mass membership organization dedicated to achieving a U.S. foreign policy based on cooperation, law, and diplomacy.

Veterans Peace Groups

Veterans for Peace (VFP)
Drawing on their personal experiences and perspectives gained as veterans, they work to raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war — and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives.

Veterans for America
An international humanitarian organization that addresses the causes, conduct and consequences of war through programs of advocacy and service for victims of conflict.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)
Committed to the struggle for peace and for social and economic justice for all people.

Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)
An organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones in the military.

Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)
Gives a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against the Iraq war.

Women’s Peace Groups

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Works through peaceful means to achieve 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.

Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND)
Works to empower women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism, and redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs.

Student Peace Groups

Student Peace Action Network (SPAN)
Working in conjunction with Peace Action, seeks to forge a popular and diverse student peace and justice movement.

National Youth and Student Peace Coalition
A coalition of student groups working for peace and justice.

Student Pugwash USA (SPUSA)
Encourages young people to probe the reasons for scientific advancement and the implications of technology on citizens’ everyday lives — including issues such as international conflict, environmental protection, genetics research, and civil rights.

Nuclear Weapons-Focused Groups

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA)
A network of 34 local, regional, and national peace and environmental groups representing the concerns of communities in the shadows of the U.S. nuclear weapons sites and radioactive waste dumps — working on health, cleaning up and shutting down polluting, obsolete, and unsafe facilities, and stopping construction of many new bomb production plants.

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, and to inspire and empower a new generation of peace leaders.

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
Works to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and is co-chaired by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn.

Abolition 2000
An international global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework.

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Seeks the reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons as a significant tool of U.S. national security policy.

Arms Control Association (ACA)
Provides policy-makers, the press, and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis, and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today (ACT).

Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP)
Uses national and international law to promote peace and disarmament, providing a vital link between policy makers, legal scholars, and activists.

Grandmothers for Peace International
Works primarily for the passage of a global Comprehensive Test Ban and the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Institute For Science and International Security (ISIS)
Dedicated to informing the public about science and policy issues affecting international security and especially stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, bringing about greater transparency of nuclear activities worldwide, and achieving deep reductions in nuclear arsenals.

Peace Building Groups

Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA)
Promotes the academic fields of peace and justice studies within universities, colleges, and K-12 grade levels.

Peaceful Tomorrows
An organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who have united to turn their grief into action for peace by developing and advocating nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice and thereby break the cycles of violence engendered by war and terrorism throughout the world.

The Peace Alliance
Advocates for legislation that supports a culture of peace and works to create a United States Department of Peace.

Alliance for Peacebuilding
A coalition of organizations that seek to use communication, negotiation, and mediation instead of belligerence and violence to resolve conflicts.

Citizens for Global Solutions
Promotes closer American cooperation with and support for international institutions capable of responding to the threats and challenges of the 21st century; specifically works to promote the International Criminal Court and to reform United Nations peace operations. Formerly the World Federalist Association.

United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA)
Dedicated to educating, inspiring, and mobilizing Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations, strengthening the United Nations system, promoting constructive United States leadership in that system, and achievement of the goals of the UN Charter.

Seeds of Peace
Empowers young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence.

Search for Common Ground
Works to transform the way the world deals with conflict — away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving.

Conscientious Objection to War Groups

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)
Supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.

Center on Conscience and War (CCW)
Works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors to war and violence.

Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD)
Challenges militarism, the institution of the military, its effect on society, its budget, its role abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism, and homophobia that are inherent in the armed forces and Selective Service System.

National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF)
Advocates for U.S. federal 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.

National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC)
A coalition of groups that provide information and support to people involved in or considering some form of war tax resistance (WTR).

Religious Peace Groups

Faithful Security
Works toward the permanent elimination of nuclear weapons by empowering religious communities to take action on a local level.

Every Church A Peace Church (ECAPC)
Works for the formation of new peace churches and the transformation of war-justifying churches into peace churches, so that the world will be turned toward peace as churches live and teach as Jesus lived and taught.

Religions for Peace — USA
Gathers representatives of religious communities in the U.S., promotes multi-religious cooperation for peace and justice, builds on the spiritual, human, and institutional resources of its communities, enhances mutual understanding, and acts for the common good.

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 — rejecting war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination and advocating the primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation.

Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service
Works to develop the spirituality and practice of active nonviolence as a way of living and being and as a process for cultural transformation.

American Jews for a Just Peace
Another Jewish Voice
Dorchester People for Peace
Grassroots International
Jewish Voice for Peace
Marylanders for a Free Palestine and a Secure Israel
Palestine Israel Working Group (PIWG)
Resource Center For Nonviolence, Middle East Program
National Lawyers Guild International Committee
Philly BDS
United Methodist Task Force on Peace with Justice in Palestine/Israel
Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace

Nonviolent Peacemaker Groups

Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP)
A federation of over 90 Member Organizations from around the world who work unarmed in conflict areas to protect human rights, deter violence, and help create space for local peacemakers to carry out their work.

Peace Brigades International (PBI), USA
A regional office of Peace Brigades International which provides nonviolent international peacekeeping in areas of violent conflict and repression, offering unarmed protective accompaniment to individuals, organizations, and communities threatened with political violence and human rights violations as they try to work for social justice and human rights.

Witness for Peace (WFP)
An organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience who work to support peace, justice, and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)
At the invitation of local peace and human rights workers, places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world who intervene in bold attempts to transform lethal conflict through the nonviolent power of God’s truth and love.

Nonviolent Action Policy Groups

Albert Einstein Institution (AEI)
Researches and promotes the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of strategic nonviolent action.

International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
Develops and encourages the study and use of civilian-based, nonmilitary strategies to establish and defend human rights, democracy and justice worldwide.

Other Specialized Peace Groups

SOA Watch
Seeks to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) — a facility that trains Latin American officials guilty of human rights abuses — through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.

Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
Works to improve humanitarian conditions, defend human rights, and support democratic change in Iraq through education, research and policy work.

Americans for Peace Now (APN)
Works to help Israel and the Shalom Achshav movement in Israel to achieve a comprehensive political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict consistent with Israel’s long-term security needs and its Jewish and democratic values.

Business Leaders For Sensible Priorities
Works to increase funding to meet the needs of U.S. children and children around the world by reducing money spent on the Pentagon for Cold War weapons systems no longer needed to protect America.

US Labor Against the War (USLAW)
A coalition of labor unions that works to end the war and occupation of Iraq, redirect the resources of the nation to meet human needs, and reverse the erosion of our liberties and rights.

Peace Policy Institutes

Center for International Policy (CIP)
Promotes a U.S. foreign policy based on peace, international cooperation, demilitarization, and respect for basic human rights.

Center for Defense Information (CDI)
A research organization that seeks realistic and cost effective military spending without excess expenditures for weapons or policies that increase the danger of war.

Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA)
Seeks to adapt military policy to the circumstances and opportunities of the post-Cold War era by developing pragmatic, cost-effective defense policy options that support progress toward more cooperative means of attaining security.

Peace and Security Initiative (PSI)
A collaborative strategic planning initiative to help advocacy organizations, grassroots groups, think tanks, academics, and funders work together to increase their capacity to influence U.S. policy to promote a more secure, peaceful and just world.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Works to advance cooperation between nations and promote active international engagement by the United States.

World Policy Institute
Promotes restraint in the international arms trade by researching the enduring Military Industrial Complex and how that relationship undermines security, democracy, and relationships with other nations.

Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies (IDDS)
Studies global military policies, arms holdings, production and trade, arms control and peace-building efforts and conducts educational programs on current and alternative policies.

Carter Center
Created by former President Carter to engage with those at the highest levels of government and also to work side by side with poor and often forgotten people to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope.