Peace Links
This is a categorised listing of a selection of peace-related web sites in the UK and beyond. Please report any broken links to disarm@quaker.org.uk
Organisation types:
- Main Quaker Peace Organisations
- Local/Regional Peace Initiatives
- Other Faith-Based Peace Organisations and Resources
- Special Interest Peace Organisations
- Thinktanks
- Government and Parliament sites
- News, Comment and Background
Peace topics:
- General Peace
- Arms Trade and Explosive Remnants of War
- Personal Conscience
- Nuclear Weapons and Strategic Missile Defence systems
- United States Bases in Britain
- Working with Conflict Overseas
- Peace Education
- United Nations
- Nonviolence and Activism
- Armed Forces Issues
- Therapy/Arts
- Beyond the Peace Movement
Main Quaker peace organisations
Quaker Peace & Social Witness (UK)- represents Quakers in Britain on issues of peace and justice
Quaker United Nations Offices (Geneva / New York)- facilitates dialogue among UN decision-makers (NEW web site for New York - very useful)
Northern Friends Peace Board (UK)- Quakers building peace from the north of Britain
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre (UK) - supports Quaker peace learning and action
Quaker Council for European Affairs (Brussels) - represents nine national Quaker bodies at the European Union and Council of Europe
Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) - US- a US Quaker lobby in the public interest
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - US - campaigns, research, advocacy, work with conflict around the world
AFSC resources on the Quaker peace testimony - US
Pendle Hill Quaker Study Centre (US) - supports peace learning and action
For other Quaker organisations worldwide, visit http://www.quaker.org/
Local/regional peace initiatives
'Preparing for Peace' - asking experts in their field to contribute to the question of whether war is obsolete.
'Practising Peace' - on groups working for peace in the Middle East
One World Column - a column on peace and human rights produced for a local paper
Other faith-based peace organisations and resources
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
World Council of Churches, Decade to Overcome Violence(2001-2010)
Pax Christi UK- Catholic peace fellowship
Anglican Pacifist Fellowship - Church of England peace fellowship
Iona Community - ecumenical peace and justice community
Network of Christian Peace Organisations - home of the ecumenical peace movement
Whatispeace.org - a web show about the meaning of peace from a Christian perspective
Fellowship of Reconciliation - ecumenical peace fellowship
SPEAK - a youth prayer and activist network
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Ekklesia - a thinktank 'promoting theological ideas in public life'
Centre for the Study of Theology and Health, Thirsk
Irish Network for Nonviolent Action, Training and Education (Ireland)
Christian Nonviolence Network (US)
Every Church a Peace Church (US)
John Dear (US - leading Jesuit peace writer and activist)
MKGandhi.org (US) - all about Mohandas Gandhi
Christian Peacemaker Teams (International)
Special interest peace organisations
Medical Action for Global Security (Medact)
Scientists for Global Responsibility
Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility
Nuclear Free Local Authorities
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Physicians for Social Respsonsibility (US)
Educators for Social Responsibility (US)
Thinktanks
British American Security Information Council (BASIC) - foreign, military and security policy thinktank
Oxford Research Group - thinktank and 'dialogue with decision-makers'
Department of Applied Global Ethics - university department and thinktank
Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford- leading research centre on peace and security-related matters
Saferworld - thinktank focused on the effective ways to prevent armed conflict
Irish Peace Institute - peace and reconciliation on the island of Ireland.
Government and parliament
Register to vote - much of the process can be done online in a few moments based on your postcode.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Department for International Development
House of Commons (including list of Early Day Motions)
Write To Them (formerly 'Fax Your MP') - locate and contact your MP for free via the Internet
European Union - including Commission, Parliament, Council
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
News comment and background
Peace News - THE monthly newspaper of the peace and anti-war movement
Indymedia - independent news sources
The Paper Boy - almost every newspaper in the world is here!
Good News Agency- just what it says on the tin
Open democracy - analysis and comment on a wide range of political and cultural topics
Global Issues - ambitious site providing background info on just about everything
GlobalSecurity.org - carries a great deal of information about security-related topics and establishments
General peace
Movement for the Abolition of War
Milspend.org - a real-time military spending counter.
Scottish Centre for Nonviolence
PeacePays.org (interactive site for learning about the costs of war and peace)
http://www.peacemovement.de/ (international peace movement forum in several languages)
Travelling/virtual exhibitions:
A vision shared - the peace movement in the 20th Century
Such a journey - aspects of the peace movement
Whatispeace.org - a web show about the meaning of peace from a Christian perspective
Arms trade and human security campaigns
Landmine Action - see also the Clear Up! Campaign
Greater Manchester Pension Fund - campaign to persuade council to disinvest from arms companies
International Action Network on Small Arms
Personal conscience
Conscience: The Peace Tax Campaign- for the right to have the military portion of tax diverted to a nonmilitary peacebuilding fund on grounds of conscience
Peace Tax Seven - seven conscientious objectors to taxation for military purposes seeking a judicial review of UK tax law within the context of the Human Rights Act.
Raise my tax!(for the social good) - a campaign for a tax rise for the social good.
Shot at Dawn - campaign for pardons for soldiers executed for refusing to fight during the First World War.
Central Committee on Conscientious Objection (US)
Nuclear weapons and missile defence
Atomic Mirror- 'reflecting and transforming our nuclear world through the arts'.
Campaign for the Accountability of
American Bases
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
World Court Project - for nuclear disarmament using arguments to accountability and legality
Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness Programme - great site with great ways to learn more about the issues
Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - extensive information and links on nuclear disarmament and 'missile defence'
Yorks CND 'Keep Space for Peace' site - to stop the weaponisation of space
Yorks CND 'Missile defence' interactive guide - find out why 'missile defence' won't work
Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - good information about Trident, the UK's nuclear weapons system
Council for a Livable World(US)
Reaching Critical Will (US - nuclear disarmament)
US bases in Britain
Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases
Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors
Groups focused on the US base on Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory:
Lalit(Mauritius)
Chagos Refugees Group (Mauritius)
Working with conflict overseas
Quaker Peace & Social Witness- supports those working with conflict in Israel/Palestine, the former Yugoslavia region, Africa and South Asia.
Responding to Conflict - provides advice, training and support for those working with conflict overseas
Peaceworkers UK- to establish a civilian peace service for use in areas at risk of or affected by armed conflict
Saferworld - thinktank focused on the effective ways to prevent armed conflict
Peace Direct - supporting groups working with conflict and for peace overseas
International Alert - working to help build lasting peace in countries affected by conflict
Nonviolent Peace Force (International)
Peace education
Peace Pledge Union 'Learn Peace' Project
PeacePays.org (interactive site for learning about the costs of war and peace)
Educators for Social Responsibility(US)
Travelling/virtual exhibitions:
A vision shared - the peace movement in the 20th Century
Such a journey - aspects of the peace movement
United Nations
UN Charter- the founding document of the UN
Nonviolence and activism
Norberts Bookmarks for a Better World
Scottish Centre for Nonviolence
QPSW 'Turning the
Tide'- training in nonviolent social change
Trident Ploughshares - anti-nuclear nonviolent direct action
Ploughshares Ireland - nonviolent direct action in Ireland
Nonviolence.org (US) - general links and resources
Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence (US)
Armed Forces issues
At Ease- offers counselling to those connected with the armed forces and advice on rights
Before You Sign Up - offers impartial information for people considering a career in the armed forces
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (International)
School of the Americas Watch (US) - the School of the Americas is a notorious US military institution dedicated to training Latin American military to further US interests there.
Therapy/arts
Greenbelt - annual all-age Christian arts festival includes 'Peace Zone' involving QPSW and others
The War Hotel - psychodynamics of conflict
The Greenham Common story - including the Greenham Common Peace Camp Song Book
Voices in Wartime - poetry and film (US)
Beyond the peace movement