Women in Black, Baltimore

Part of an International Network for Peace. Women in Black, Baltimore joins with other women’s organizations worldwide to advocate for peace, justice, and an end to violence worldwide.

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Peace Links:

http://www.peacekeepingbestpractices.unlb.org/
Peacekeeping Best Practices from the United Nations provides information from around the world on peackeeping activites from reports. It also features a search engine.


http://www.peacewomen.org
PeaceWomen.org seeks to nurture communication among a diversity of women's organizations by providing an accessible and accurate information exchange between peace women around the world and the UN system.

http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org/
Jewish and Palestinian women, citizens of Israel representatives of various women’s organizations and individuals who have agreed to coordinate and organize joint activities in order to work together for a just peace.

http://www.grandmothersforpeace.org/
Grandmothers for Peace, a non-profit organization, was formed in May of 1982 at the height of the Cold War.

http://www.wld.org/
Women Law and Development International is a women's human rights organization. First established in 1979 as a program of OEF International; WLDI became an independent organization in 1993. WLDI is a non-profit, non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Prior to and since its independence, WLDI has worked on several fronts, making important contributions to the global movement for women's rights.

http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/islam01.htm
The World Council of Muslim Women is a global non-profit organization dedicated to the education and safety of all women, and to a peaceful environment through out the world. The Council is a Living Memorial to the women of Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and all other women who have suffered rape, torture, degradation, and death.

http://www.batshalom.org/
Bat Shalom of the Jerusalem Link - feminist center for peace and social justice working with a Palestinian women's center to achieve peace.

http://www.paxchristiusa.org/
Pax Christi is a section of Pax Christi International, the Catholic peace movement.Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation.

http://www.seekpeace.org/
SEEKING PEACE, PURSUING JUSTICE is the Reform Movement's campaign to educate and mobilize North American Jewry to support peace efforts and social justice causes in Israel.

http://www.fmep.org/
Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), is a nonprofit organization dedicated to informing Americans about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and assisting in a peaceful solution that brings security for both peoples.

http://www.peacenow.org/
Americans for Peace Now: APN is an American Jewish organization affiliated with Peace Now In Israel. It has an active advocacy, congressional relations, and public education program, and advocates a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that combines security for Israel and an end to Israeli settlements.

http://www.cmep.org/
(CMEP) is an ecumenical working group of Christian organizations. CMEP began its work in 1984 out of the conviction that the policy perspectives and long Middle East experience of our member bodies can play a useful role in the public arena. We therefore seek to maintain an on-going dialogue with Congress, the Administration and the diplomatic community on behalf of these concerns.

http://www.peacenow.org.il/
Peace Now is the leading Israeli peace group. It was established many years ago to promote a just Israeli-Palestinian peace through all forms of political activism. Its "Settlement Watch" program monitors settlement activity intensively.

http://www.usip.org/
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created and funded by Congress to strengthen the nation's capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict.

http://www.cpt.org/
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) offers an organized, nonviolent alternative to war and other forms of lethal inter-group conflict. CPT provides organizational support to persons committed to faith-based nonviolent alternatives in situations where lethal conflict is an immediate reality or is supported by pubic policy.

http://www.rhr.israel.net/
RHR was founded in 1988, in response to serious abuses of human rights by the Israeli military authorities in the suppression of the Intifada. The indifference of much of the country's religious leadership and religiously identified citizenry to the suffering of innocent people seen as the enemy was a cause of concern to RHR's organizers.

http://www.ecapc.org/
Every Church a Peace Church (ECAPC) is a vision energized by the belief that the church could turn the world toward peace if every church lived and taught as Jesus lived and taught. It is an effort to nurture a global network of creative nonviolence among Christians, focused within the churches out of a sense of responsibility to first set one’s own house in order.

http://www.forusa.org/
The Fellowship of Reconciliation is composed of women and men who recognize the essential unity of all creation and have joined together to explore the power of love and truth for resolving human conflict. While it has always been 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.