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Peace & Justice Websites Bullying Olweus Bullying Prevention Program “The Olweus [pronounced Ol-VEY-us] Bullying Prevention Program is a comprehensive, school-wide program designed for use in elementary, middle, or junior high schools. It’s goals are to reduce and prevent bullying problems among school children and to improve peer relations at school. The program has been found to reduce bullying among children, improve the social climate of classrooms, and reduce related antisocial behaviors, such as vandalism and truancy. The Olweus Program has been implemented in more than one dozen countries around the world.” http://www.clemson.edu/olweus/index.html Conflict Mediation Training Lancaster Mediation Center, Lancaster, PA http://www.lancmed.org Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, PA http://www.mcc.org/us/index.html Good Shepard Mediation Program, Philadelphia, PA http://www.phillymediators.org Death Penalty http://www.aclu.org/DeathPenalty/DeathPenaltyMain.cfm Domestic Violence http://www.ndvh.org/ http://www.ncadv.org/ http://www.s-t.com/projects/DomVio/domviohome.HTML http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/ http://endabuse.org/programs/display.php3?DocID=9916 http://www.dvguide.com/ Organizations Amnesty International “Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.” http://www.amnesty.org/ Catholic Worker Movement “The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person. Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken.[sic] Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.” http://www.catholicworker.org/index.cfm Christian Peacemaker Teams “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 public policy. CPT seeks to enlist the response of the whole church in conscientious objection to war, and the development of nonviolent institutions, skills and training for intervention in conflict situations. CPT projects connect intimately with the spiritual lives of its constituent congregations. Gifts of prayer, money and time from these churches undergird CPT peacemaking ministries.” http://www.cpt.org/ Every Church a Peace Church “Our GOAL and MISSION is to invite churches to make this AFFIRMATION and to act upon it: ‘Following Jesus in nonviolent struggle for justice and peace, we love our neighbors and enemies as God loves us all, becoming a peace church to share in God’s work to save the world.’” http://www.ecapc.org/mainframe.asp Fellowship of Reconciliation “FOR seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.” http://www.forusa.org/ International Justice Mission “International Justice Mission helps people suffering injustice and oppression who cannot rely on local authorities for relief. The agency documents and monitors conditions of abuse and oppression, educates the church and public about the abuses, and mobilizes intervention on behalf of the victims.” http://www.ijm.org/ijm_home.html Mennonite Central Committee “Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, service, and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. MCC reflects the biblical call to care for the hungry and thirsty, the stranger, the sick and those in prison.” http://www.mcc.org/ http://www.mcc.org/us/washington/ (Washington D.C. office) Pax Christi International “Pax Christi International is a non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues in the fields of human rights, security and disarmament, economic justice and ecology.” http://www.paxchristi.net/ Peacemaker Ministries “The mission of Peacemaker Ministries is to equip and assist Christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.” http://www.hispeace.org/ School of the Americas Watch “SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.” http://www.soaw.org/new Sojourners “Sojourners, www.sojo.net, is a Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice.” http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm Third Way Café “Third Way Café is produced by Mennonite Media, on behalf of the Mennonite Churches of the U.S. and Canada, under the sponsorship of Mennonite Mission Network. The Mennonite Church exists in many countries around the world. Mennonite Media produces
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