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Land Mine Information Page http://rio.atlantic.net/~bdarl/landmines.html http://www.pgs.ca/pages/ldmn0.html
"Language and Peace" (Co-edited by Christina Schaffner, Aston University, UK, & Anita L. Wenden, York College, City University of New York, demonstrates how critical discourse analysis can elucidate the relationship between language and peace. Listed below are the contents:Lawyers for Social Responsibility
The League of Peaceful Schools, www.leagueofpeacefulschools.ns.ca is an organization based in Nova Scotia that provides support and recognition to schools committed to creating and maintaining a peaceful learning environment. Membership includes:
"Learning Without Frontiers" (LWF) represents
UNESCO's pro-active response to addressing the deep social and political problems that
confront humanity as they relate to the role of learning in society. It views the
processes of engaging in collaborative, multi channel and innovative learning as being
critical for both the development of the individual and the building and linking of
culturally diverse communities. http://www.education.unesco.org/lwf
Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific - http://www.pearson-college.uwc.ca/pearson/index.html
Lions Clubs International - Lions are members of community service clubs, dedicated to the idea that the men and women who live in a community are in the best position to know who needs help and why. More than 44,500 strong, these local clubs are part of the world's largest such organization, with 1.4 million members serving in more than 180 countries and areas. The association is both non-political and non-sectarian. Lions are now best known for their sight-related programs, including SightFirst, the world's largest blindness prevention program. http://www.lionsclubs.org The Lions International Peace Poster Contest was created in 1988 to give young people an opportunity to express their feelings about peace. Since then, more than 1.5 million students from over 66 countries have participated in the annual contest. http://www10.lionsclubs.org/Lion/TxtVrsn/TYPPstr.html
Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service [German: www.gandhiserve.de
- Mahatma Gandhi Forschungs- und Mediendienst]. It hosts the most comprehensive
e-archive on Mahatma Gandhi featuring photographs, video and audio online,
books, writings online, films and footage, addresses, oral history, genealogy, a
webstore... GandhiServe Foundation is recognized by UNESCO as Culture of Peace
Actor. Our website is one of the most frequented sites of its kind. For
more information: www.gandhiserve.org
"GandhiServe Foundation - Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service",
or www.gandhiserve.de "GandhiServe
Stiftung - Mahatma Gandhi Forschungs- und Mediendienst"; Peter Ruhe,
Chairperson, GandhiServe Foundation, Rathausstrasse 51a, 12105 Berlin, Germany;
Tel: +49 (0)30 70206374 / 705 40 54;
Fax: +49 (0)30 70206373 / 705 40 54; E-mail: mail@gandhimail.org
; English: www.gandhiserve.org ;
Deutsch: www.gandhiserve.de ; Russian: www.gandhiserve.narod.ru
The Markland Group mission is to promote international peace through efforts aimed at optimizing compliance behaviour under disarmament treaties, efforts aimed at establishing compliance regimes within each treaty in order to generate maximum trust and confidence on the part of States Parties and thus to encourage universal adherence, and efforts aimed promoting non-violent methods of enforcing disarmament treaties. 203-150 Wilson Street West, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. L9G 4E7; Tel: (905) 648-3306 Fax: (905) 648-2563; e-mail: marklandgroup@hwcn.org ; Web site: http://www.hwcn.org/link/mkg
McMaster University, Centre for Peace Studies, , 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1. Director: Dr. Mark Vorobej. Telephone 905-525-9140, ext. 24729; Fax 905-570-1167; Email: peace@mcmaster.ca, Website: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~peace
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders. MSF is a humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries. http://msf.org/ ; Canada http://www.msf.ca/
In late June 2000, the Executive Committee of the Council of the University for Peace (UPEACE), headquartered in San José, Costa Rica, authorized the Rector to set up a Media and Peace Institute (MPI) within the framework of the university. The Institute came into formal existence on November 7, 2000. It administrative office is in Paris as one of several offices that will eventually operate under the Council's authority. The Institute – "an intellectual tool for preventive diplomacy" -- aims to educate people in the many ways the media interact with issues of war and peace. It welcomes two kinds of participants: persons from areas of recent, current or potential conflict; and persons from countries strongly concerned with international peace and security. It also plans a research program targeting urgent international peace-related questions in which the media play a significant role. By its education and research programs, and by its day-to-day contacts with UN and regional peacekeeping bodies, the Institute will contribute to new thinking about how free media can help prevent conflict and alert decision-makers, as well as the general public, to looming risks of war. Like the University for Peace as a whole, the Institute is independent of day-to-day policy or administrative control by the United Nations. But because the University was created in 1980 by Resolution of the UN General Assembly, the Institute will try to make its work as useful as possible to the UN, especially for peacekeeping and conflict prevention. It will also work with regional peace and security organizations such as the OSCE, NATO, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It will keep aware of the challenges they face and adapt its teaching and research to help them develop practical solutions. The Institute's courses, research and other activities will aim to serve the development and strengthening of free media worldwide. Free media being an indispensable foundation of democracy, and democracy tending more often than not to serve peace, our action ultimately aims to help prevent international conflict. As a new, small and specialized organization, we intend to work with any other organizations and groups pursuing similar goals. The Institute's current Director is Canadian Keith Spicer. For more information: email mailto:director@mediapeace.org ; web site http://www.mediapeace.org/
Members of the House of Commons - Alphabetical Listing with contact information: http://www.parl.gc.ca/36/senmemb/house/members/alpha-e.htm
Mennonites are one of the three historic "peace churches" committed to nonviolence. Web site http://www.mennonitecc.ca/mcc/ ; Eastern Mennonite University Conflict Transformation Program http://www.emu.edu/units/ctp/ctp.htm ; peace research links page http://www.emu.edu/units/library/peace.htm
Microcredit Summit launched a nine-year campaign to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by 2005. We believe that if we all work together this campaign will become one of the great new chapters in human history and will allow tens of millions of people to free themselves and their families from the vicious cycle of poverty. http://www.microcreditsummit.org/
MidEast Citizen Diplomacy. We are a U.S. based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Jewish-Palestinian reconciliation through: 1. People-to-people peace building initiatives; 2. Compassionate Listening as a tool for reconciliation; 3. Educational outreach. Mid East Citizen Diplomacy has been leading citizen delegations to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza since 1990. Hundreds of participants have travelled with us to learn first-hand from citizens, religious, political and grassroots leaders, settlers, refugees and peace activists about their lives, struggles and perspectives. We have built respectful and trusting relationships at every level of Israeli and Palestinian society. Seeking to play a greater role in Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation, we launched the Compassionate Listening Project in 1997, with the encouragement of Israeli and Palestinian NGOs. Participants in our delegations now focus on Compassionate Listening as a tool for reconciliation, based on the work of Gene Knudsen Hoffman. With the guidance of our professional facilitators and Israeli and Palestinian colleagues, trip participants deepen in their understanding of the perspectives and the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians on all sides of the conflict, and build bridges among the communities in conflict. We also hold workshops for Israelis and Palestinians in the listening technique, and invite them to come together to practice with one another. We believe that the international community has the potential to play a much more significant role in Middle East peace-building and reconciliation efforts. We also believe in the creative abilities of regular citizens to affect change at the global level. We invite you to join us on a Compassionate Listening delegation. We know that not everyone can participate in an international peace-making trip. We also know that the Compassionate Listening reconciliation model is applicable to all situations of conflict. To make our work accessible to the general public, we produced a beautiful, broadcast-quality documentary video introducing our work with Compassionate Listening. Children of Abraham http://www.mideastdiplomacy.org/video.html is now available for sale. We recommend it for the classroom (junior high through college level), for home viewing, or for public screenings at Churches, Mosques, Synagogues and peace centers. For more information, contact MidEast Citizen Diplomacy, P.O. Box 17, Indianola, WA 98342 USA; tel 360/297-2280; (360) 297-6563 fax; email office@mideastdiplomacy.org ; web site http://www.mideastdiplomacy.org
Millennium Peace 2000
(www.millenniumpeace.com), a peace orientated informational site promoting and sponsoring other organizations in the peace movements. Contact Connie Pietrie, Fredericton, New Brunswick. rose@nbnet.nb.caMines Action Canada
(MAC) is the Canadian component of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). MAC is a coalition of more than 45 organizations. URL: www.minesactioncanada.com/The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence - The Mission of the Gandhi Institute ...is to promote and apply the principles of nonviolence locally, nationally, and globally, to prevent violence and resolve personal and public conflicts through research, education, and programming.
The Moscow School of Human Rights is a non-governmental
and non-commercial organization functioning in the sphere of additional education. It
doesn’t support any political parties, movements and campaigns and recognizes
ideological and world outlook diversity. In 1994-1995 the International Fund “Cultural
Initiative” (Soros Foundation) and the Ministry of Education of Russia organized a competition of
innovation projects under the motto “New ways in humanitarian education in
Russia”. More than 600 projects took part in the competition. Among the 30 winners of
the 1st degree grant was the project “Human rights. Education in Russia”, which
provided for setting up this school. By decision of the Minister of Education of
Russia, Moscow School of Human Rights received the status of Federal experimental
laboratory. Our Purposes:
-working out a strategy and programs of civic, human rights, democracy, peace, law,
and political education;
-development of educational and methodical-scientific literature, audio-visual and
computer facilities in the field of civics, human rights and democracy;
-training and retraining secondary and high school teachers, leaders of human rights
movement, state employees;
-improvement of legal and political culture of the students;
-performing functions of an informational centre of the problems of civic education,
education in the sphere of child’s rights, human rights, peace, democracy;
-summing-up and distributing foreign and domestic experience in this sphere.
http://www.mshr.redline.ru/eindex.htm
http://www.mshr.redline.ru/
National Crime Prevention Council - Canada, 275 Sparks Street, 5th floor, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8, Tel: (613) 941-0505, Fax: (613) 952-3515, E-Mail: ncpc@web.net, Website: http://crime-prevention.org/ncpc
National Crime Prevention Council On-Line Resource Centre - US, 1700 K Street, NW, Second Floor, Washington, DC 20006-3817, Tel: 202-466-6272, Fax: 202-296-1356, E-Mail: webmaster@ncpc.org, Website: http://www.ncpc.org
National Institute for Dispute Resolution Conflict Resolution Education Network, http://www.crenet.org/ - Through its newsletters and journal, NIDR provides the nation with timely and focused information on effective applications of conflict resolution in our society. Through its clearinghouse operation, NIDR is the single largest source of books and other resources on the field of conflict resolution. For the complete bibliography on evaluation efforts of conflict resolution education programs check: http://www.crenet.org/enddraft.html
NATIONAL PEACE FOUNDATION is a non-governmental membership organization concerned with the development and implementation of conflict resoluation education and training in the United States, and with peacebuilding and demoncracy-building internationally. Address: 1819 H Street NW, Suite 1200, Washington D.C. 20006. Tel: 202-223-1770. http://www.nationalpeace.org
The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development is a policy-oriented research and consulting organization. Nautilus promotes international cooperation for security and ecologically sustainable development. Programs embrace both global and regional issues, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Nautilus produces reports, organizes seminars, and provides educational and training services for policymakers, media, researchers and community groups. Core staff are based in Berkeley, with associates in Washington, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai. Research draws from many disciplines, including environmental economics and science, energy and resource planning and international relations. Nautilus is a non-profit funded organization funded primarily by grants and contributions. http://www.nautilus.org/
Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam is a village in Israel established
jointly by Jews and Palestinian Arabs of Israeli citizenship. In the framework of its
School for Peace and children's educational framework, members of Neve
Shalom/Wahat al-Salam are engaged in educational work for peace, equality, and understanding between
the two peoples. At this web site you can
find basic information and images of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, some recent news, stories
of its people and interesting links. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/nswas/
NewMathforHumanity
is of course not about mathematics, per se. It is about power relations.
We strive to fullfill our mission by working on power in three
interrelated spheres: Psychological Action to Develop Personal Power;
Political Action to Transform the Structures of Power; Intellectual Action
to Advance the Evolutionary Project. We work in these three spheres
because we believe the personal is connected to the political and because
the nature of our mission requires a large R & D component. Thus, the
development of personal power will inevitably propel each person to
express him or herself politically, working in some way to transform the
structures of power in society to life-enhancing forms. The distribution
and consumption of resources, the ecological balance, the concern that
such a large gap is growing between those who 'have' and those who 'have
not' become natural areas for political action. Yet, we are the first to
acknowledge that serious study, research, and the development of practical
options is required on the subject of power. While power is an omnipresent
factor in almost all disciplines, from developmental psychology to
criminology, economics to business and organizational management, from
international relations to war and peace studies, it remains
underdeveloped, ubiquitous but unclear. It is also most often experienced
and treated as a negative term - especially by those who see others
abusing power. In order to explore power more, to offer useful insights,
services, and products that will contribute to realizing the vision that
inspires our work, NewMathforHumanity
must be a continuous learning initiative. Above all, we believe there is a
community of people who share our vision, and who in their own way are
working now to transform power. They may be doing this by helping
individuals to overcome their demons to get well, or helping families live
happily together, or by taking nonviolent action to protest something that
is wrong, by demanding sound environmental and fair trade practices, or by
establishing rule of law in anarchic, violent societies and encouraging
and supporting the full participation of citizens in political processes.
There is much to do. For more information: contact Ben Hoffman, NewMathforHumanity,
C/O Concorde Inc., 68B Raddatz Road, R.R. #2, Eganville, ON, K0J 1T0,
Canada; Phone: +613-754-5283; Fax: +613-754-2972; email hoffmanben@hotmail.com ;
web site www.newmathforhumanity.com
NGO Coalition for an International Criminal Court. 777 UN Plaza 12th Floor. New York New York 10017. USA. Telephone +1 212 687 2176 Faxsimile +1 599 1332; Email cicc@igc.org Web http://www.igc.org/icc
Niagara PeaceNet :
The Founding Objectives upon which Niagara Peace Network is based are...
Nizkor International Human Rights Team. Nizkor is a member of the Peace and Justice Service-Europe (Serpaj), Derechos Human Rights (USA) and GILC (Global Internet Liberty Campaign). Mailbox: Desenganho, 12 - 5 Piso - 28004 - Madrid - Espanha. Telephone: +34.91.526.7502 Fax: +34.91.526.7515 http://www.derechos.org/nizkor - In Spanish only Mailto: nizkor@derechos.org
No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) is an international committee of parliamentarians, mayors and citizens whose main goal is to support the creation of an international system of justice. http://www.agora.stm.it/npwj/
Nobel Peace Prize - for champions of peace, awarded by a committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Storting. http://www.nobel.no/indexen.html
The Nonviolence Web is home to many of the US's most dynamic peace groups. "Nonviolence Web Upfront," the homepage news and opinion magazine of the NVWeb, is updated every other week. http://www.nonviolence.org/
Nonviolent Peaceforce International mission is to mobilize and train an international nonviolent, standing peace force. The Peace Force will be sent to conflict areas to prevent death and destruction and protect human rights, thus creating the space for local groups to struggle nonviolently, enter into dialogue, and seek peaceful resolution. NPI is endorsed by: Oscar Arias (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Former President of Costa Rica), Mairead Maguire (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from Northern Ireland), Jose Ramos Horta, (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from East Timor), His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (Ambassador to the UN from Bangladesh), International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Hague Appeal for Peace, Recommended by the Peoples Millennium Forum at the United Nations, May 2000. The goals of the Nonviolent Peaceforce project are twofold: 1. To build the organization needed to create and maintain a standing Nonviolent PeaceForce of 200 active members, 400 reserves, and 500 supporters (building up to 2,000 active members, 4,000 reserves, and 5,000 supporters over 10 years); 2. To develop the theory and practice of third party nonviolent intervention, in order to significantly increase that tool’s effectiveness. (The understanding starts with the experience of existing peace teams, human rights, humanitarian, and military organizations.) As we venture into the new millennium, we stand at a significant crossroad. Will the next century bring an incessant stream of devastating armed conflicts and brutal violence, like the horrors we have seen in Kosovo, Rwanda, Iraq and East Timor? Or are there alternatives to the endless repetition of such catastrophes? There is an alternative, one that builds upon the recent experiences of many organizations that have successfully experimented with the application of “Third Party Nonviolent Intervention” techniques in areas of advanced conflict. Out of these experiences has grown a new wave of deliberate nonviolent intervention carried out by some twenty or so organizations around the world. The Nonviolent Peaceforce builds on this legacy. For more information, contact: Nonviolent Peaceforce, Telephone (651) 487-0800, FAX (651) 489-1335, Postal address 801 Front Ave. St. Paul, MN 55103, United States of America; Electronic mail General Information: info@nonviolentpeaceforce.org ; website http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/
For more than 20 years, the North-South Institute (NSI) has built a reputation for sound research and analysis of Canadian foreign policy, offered an independent voice on the urgent importance of world development issues, and brought those issues before the Canadian public and decision makers. Established in 1976, it is the only independent, non-governmental research institute in Canada focused on international development. The Institute's research supports global efforts to strengthen international development cooperation, improve governance in developing countries, enhance gender and social responsibility in globalizing markets, and prevent ethnic and other conflict. The results of this research are shared through publications, seminars, and conferences with policymakers, educators, business, and media, as well as to interested groups and individuals, to help generate greater understanding and informed discussion of the problems and opportunities facing Canada and countries in the developing world. A charitable, not-for-profit corporation, the North-South Institute is nonpartisan and cooperates with a wide range of Canadian, overseas, and international organizations. NSI also collaborates closely with the International Development Research Centre and the International Institute for Sustainable Development in promoting knowledge-based development programs and policies. http://www.nsi-ins.ca/index.html
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan international educational organization. It is comprised of individuals and organizations from throughout the world that recognize the imperative for world peace in the Nuclear Age. Our advisors include some of the world's greatest peace leaders including many Nobel Peace Laureates. We are a non-governmental affiliate of the United Nations, and have been designated by the United Nations as a Peace Messenger Organization. http://www.napf.org/
ONE HUMANITY AS AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION - We are calling for a comprehensive change , on a global scale and as such we are operating as an international non-profit organisation. As people of One Humanity we are dedicated to the betterment of life. We encourage all people to support any worthy cause and to develop strategies and projects that are urgently needed for the creation of a safe future for humanity. Some of the areas that are calling for urgent attention are: Human rights, freedom and equality; Relief and assistance to the needy ; Re-harmonising the environment; The promotion of world peace. And yet we can say that the most important project is: A global education towards unity. For more than anything else it is the unity that will allow the other causes to be easily attained. Therefore we are actively calling all of those who are already dedicated to the unity of humankind, whether as individuals or as organisations to increasingly co-operate and unite. For our future as humanity is dependant on the level of our respect, friendship, co-operation and unity. All guidance is freely given. Our expenses are met through voluntary financial support. Our strength is yours as we are all united in a common cause. http://www.one-humanity.org/
OneWorld Online is a partnership: over 100 organisations working for human rights and sustainable development. We are working together to broadcast an alternative world agenda, an agenda for a fairer world. http://www.oneworld.org/
The One World Trust’s Global Accountability Project
(GAP) was started in 2000 and is a unique project assessesing the
accountability of inter-governmental organisations (IGOs),
transnational corporations (TNCs) and international non-governmental
organisations (NGOs). At the heart of the project is a novel framework
which explains what accountability means and identifies eight core
organisational dimensions crucial to fostering greater accountability.
GAP has recently published its first report ‘Power Without Accountability’.
The report assesses eighteen of the world’s most powerful
organisations including the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation
and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The
results show wide differences between the organisations, clearly
indicating leaders in the field and those that fall behind. For more
information about GAP and a full copy of the report please visit http://www.oneworldtrust.org Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
One World, P.O. Box 2566, Monterey, CA 93942, U.S.A.
One World Now, P.O. Box 1145, Houston, TX 77251, U.S.A.
OSS.NET is the hub of a global virtual network of sources, softwares, and services that come together on a “just enough, just in time” basis to provide any client with the highest-value, lowest-cost means of creating intelligence. Since 1992, we have championed open source intelligence (OSINT), intelligence reform, and the creation of Smart Nations. Beginning in 2002 we are also championing a global intelligence grid that brings the seven tribes of intelligence (national, military, law enforcement, business, academic, NGO-media, and religious-clan-citizen) into effective relations with one another, in part through the creation of ISO standards for those elements of intelligence that are open, ethical, legal, and generic. The motto, "E VERITATE POTENS" ("From Truth, Power" or literally, "one is made powerful through truth") reflects the belief that power applied with knowledge, and tools of power developed in the context of specific threats, will be more successful and less costly to the Nation than power applied blindly, or capabilities designed and funded without reference to the actual threat or circumstances. As we all strive to redefine national security and improve national competitiveness, open sources will play an extraordinarily important role in nurturing both a sense of security and the reality of prosperity for the community of nations, tribes, enterprises, and citizens. Post Office Box 369, Oakton, Virginia 22124-0369; Voice: 703.242.1700, Facsimile: 703.242.1711; web site http://www.oss.net/ . See fascinating articles http://www.oss.net/extra/page/?limit=no . See also the Global Intelligence Partnership at http://www.oss.net/extra/page/?action=page_show&id=262&module_instance=1
Oxfam International is an international group of independent non-governmental organizations who work together to make a real impact on poverty and injustice world-wide. Oxfam International, founded in 1995, is an international partnership of 11 autonomous non-government organisations. Member organisations are of diverse cultures, history, and language, but share the commitment to working for an end to the waste and injustice of poverty - both in longer-term development work and in times of urgent humanitarian need. The individual Oxfams work in different ways but have a common purpose: addressing the structural causes of poverty and related injustice. The Oxfams work primarily through local organisations in more than 100 countries. Together, in 1996/7 we raised over US $335 million to support the fight against poverty in more than a hundred countries around the world. http://www.oxfaminternational.org/ ; Canada http://www.oxfam.ca/
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