Interfaith Peace Resources
Reports Sponsored by Faith-Based Groups
Our Common Responsibility - The Impact of a New War on Iraqi Children. Development of this Jan. 30, 2003 report, was supported by Canadian Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee Canada, United Church of Canada, and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, among others. The 33 page report is is available online at http://www.warchild.ca/docs/final_report_report_january_29v1.0.pdf. See key findings.

Videos Recommended for Faith-Based Groups
A Force More Powerful. This set of videos is available from either the Wisconsin Council of Churches, 608/837-3108, or the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, 608/250-9240.

Books on Peace
The members of the Conference Advisory Committee for the Nov. 2, 2002 interfaith peace conference recommended the following books:
One book I recommend most highly is
A Force More Powerful, A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, by Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall, Palgrave, 2000. (It has been made into a television series, shown on PBS.)
- Rev. Cecil Findley
Making Friends of Enemies, Reflections on the Teachings of Jesus by Jim Forest, Crossroad, New York, 1987

Peace Be With You by Eileen Egan, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 1999.
- George Hinger
Here are two of my favorite "peace" books. Both express, in my opinion, a Jewish version of the kind of religious and spiritual courage and creativity necessary for a world at peace.

Tales of Tikkun: New Jewish Stories to Heal the Wounded World by Arthur Ocean Waskow and Phyllis Ocean Berman, Jason Aronson, 1996.

At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land by Yossi Klein HaLevi, William Morrow, 2001.
- Rabbi Brian Field
The World Council of Churches has an extensive list of books among the resources listed on their Decade to Overcome Violence Web site.


Web Sites of Faith-Based Peace Organizations
Al-Bushra (Arab American Roman Catholic Community) http://www.al-bushra.org/
American Friends Service Committee http://www.afsc.org/
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America http://www.bpfna.org/
Buddhist Peace Fellowship http://www.bpf.org/
Cactus48 link list http://www.cactus48.com/websites.html
Campaign of Conscience (to end economic sanctions against Iraq) http://www.afsc.org/conscience/about.htm
Center On Conscience and War http://www.nisbco.org/
The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) http://objector.org/
Churches for Middle East Peace http://www.cmep.org/
Christian Peacemaker Teams http://www.prairienet.org/cpt/
Courage To Refuse (uniting international supporters of the Israeli Refusers) http://www.couragetorefuse.org/ (English)
Decade For A Culture of Nonviolence (ELCA) http://www.elca.org/dcs/socialjustice.html
Decade to Overcome Violence (2001-2010) http://www.wcc-coe.org/dov
Ecumenical Peace Institute http://www.epicalc.org/
Episcopal Peace Fellowship http://www.episcopalpeacefellowship.org/home.htm
Every Church A Peace Church http://www.ecapc.org/
Fellowship of Reconciliation http://www.forusa.org/
Friends Committee on National Legislation http://www.fcnl.org/
Friends Peace Teams http://www.quaker.org/fptp/
International Fellowship of Reconciliation http://www.ifor.org/
Iraq Peace Pledge http://peacepledge.org/
Jewish Peace Fellowship http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/
Lutheran Peace Fellowship http://www.lutheranpeace.org/
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/
Muslim Peace Fellowship http://www.mpfweb.org/
Orthodox Peace Fellowship http://www.incommunion.org/
Pax Christi USA http://www.paxchristiusa.org/
Peace Action http://www.peace-action.org/
Progressive Religious Partnership http://www.progressivereligiouspartnership.org/
Rabbis for Human Rights http://www.rhr.israel.net/
Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center (Jerusalem) http://www.sabeel.org/
SoJourners Peace Ministry http://www.sojo.net/
War Resisters League http://www.warresisters.org/
World Conference on Religion and Peace http://www.wcrp.org/
Yesh Gvul (an Israeli peace group) http://www.yesh-gvul.org/english.html
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