Resources

  • Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus (Fr. John Dear)

    The Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus teaches and promotes the nonviolence of Jesus, to help end violence and to create a new culture of nonviolence through workshops, podcasts, and conferences.

  • Campaign Against the Arms Trade

    Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is a UK-based organisation working to end the international arms trade.

  • Catholic Nonviolence Initiative

    The Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International, affirms that active nonviolence is at the heart of the vision and message of Jesus, the life of the Catholic Church, and the long-term vocation of healing and reconciling both people and the planet.

  • Friends Committee on National Legislation

    FCNL is a national, nonpartisan Quaker organization that lobbies Congress for peace, justice, and environmental stewardship. They bring together tens of thousands of people who share a belief in the power of relationship-building to advance a better world.

  • ICAN

    Nobel Prize winner, 2017, for the UN Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN is a broad, inclusive campaign, focused on mobilizing civil society around the world to support the specific objective of prohibiting and eliminating nuclear weapons.

  • Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center

    IPJC builds community to act for systemic change in the Catholic church and the world. Sponsored by 24 religious communities, including CSJP, IPJC collaborates with Catholic, ecumenical, interfaith and other organizations in carrying out this mission.

  • Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns

    Maryknoll missioners world-wide working for peace, justice, sustainable human and environmental development and global solidarity.

  • Nuns Against Gun Violence

    Nuns Against Gun Violence is a coalition of Catholic Sisters and their allies that affirms the value of human life through prayer, education, and advocacy for common sense, evidence-based, gun violence prevention.

  • Pace e bene

    Pace e Bene’s mission is to foster justice, peace and the well-being of all through education, resources, and action for nonviolent change.

  • Pax Christi EW (England and Wales)

    Pax Christi EW is a membership organisation of individuals, families, communities and parishes from around the country promoting peace.

  • Pax Christi USA

    Grounded in the Gospel and Catholic social teaching, Pax Christi USA is a membership organization that rejects war, preparation for war, every form of violence and domination, and personal and systemic racism.

  • Quakers in Britain

    Quakers work for peace exploring and sharing creative nonviolent approaches to conflict and alternative approaches to violence.

  • The Metta Center for Nonviolence

    The Metta Center for Nonviolence helps people maintain a sustained commitment to nonviolence in a world filled with urgent problems. Using a variety of resources, Metta Center helps people practice nonviolence more safely and effectively.

  • United Nations

    The UN is an international organization founded in 1945, currently made up of 193 Member States. The mission and work of the United Nations is guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.

  • United States Institute for Peace

    The United States Institute of Peace is a national, nonpartisan, independent institute, founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible, practical and essential for U.S. and global security.

  • Waging Nonviolence: a People Powered News and Analysis

    Waging Nonviolence is a website and e-magazine that delivers weekly news about nonviolent struggles for justice around the world.

Nonviolence and Peacemaking

  • Black Lives Matter

    Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

  • Color of Change

    Color of Change is the largest online racial justice organization in the US, challenging injustice by holding corporate and political leaders accountable, commissioning research on systems of inequality and advancing solutions for racial justice to transform the world.

  • Detention Watch Network

    (DWN) is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to expose and challenge the injustices of the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for profound change that promotes the rights and dignity of all persons.

  • First Friends

    First Friends of NJ and NY upholds the inherent dignity and humanity of detained immigrants and asylum seekers. They provide compassion and hope through volunteer visitation, resettlement assistance, and advocacy.

  • NAACP

    Founded in 1908, NAACP multigenerational network activists dismantle structural racism in the US by taking action on the most pressing issues to advance racial equity.

  • Nuns and Nones

    Nuns & Nones is an intergenerational, spiritual community of sisters and seekers dedicated to care, contemplations, and courageous action in service of life and liberation.

  • Refugee Council in the UK

    The Refugee Council is a leading charity working with refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK. The UK asylum process is complex, and frequent changes to legislation can make it a difficult system to understand.

  • Sojourners

    Sojourners is an ecumenical Christian media and advocacy organization that works towards social and racial justice. Sojourners publishes an award-winning magazine, produces daily news and commentary on sojo.net, and mobilizes people of faith for social justice through its advocacy initiative SojoAction.

Racism, Immigration & Detention

Environmental Information, Concerns, Issues

  • Center for Biological Diversity

    The Center for Biological Diversity believes that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. The Center works to secure a future for all species, great and small, on the brink of extinction.

  • Green Christian

    Green Christian is a group of Christians from all backgrounds and traditions. Inspired by their faith, they work to care for Creation through prayer, living simply, public witness, campaigning and mutual encouragement.

  • Greenpeace International

    Greenpeace is a global network of independent campaigning organizations that use peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green, just, and joyful future.

  • Laudato Si’ Movement

    The Laudato Si’ Movement inspires and mobilizes the Catholic community to care for our common home and achieve climate and ecological justice, in collaboration with all people of good will.

  • Sierra Club

    Sierra Club works to advance climate solutions and ensure everyone has access to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment.

  • United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)

    UNEP is the leading global authority on the environment. Its mission is to inspire, inform, and enable nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

  • Union of Concerned Scientists

    The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

  • Waterspirit

    A CSJP sponsored ministry, at the heart of Waterspirit is a spirituality that connects nature, especially water, with the sacred. Waterspirit educates, advocates, and collaborates to promote the individual transformations and systemic changes needed to sustain water and all life on Earth.

Hunger and Economic Justice

  • American Friends Service Committee

    AFSC is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action.

  • Bread for the World

    Bread for the World is a collective of Christian voices urging our nation's decision-makers to end hunger at home and abroad.

  • Catholic Fund for Overseas Development

    CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and part of Caritas International.

  • EPI (Economic Policy Institute)

    The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created to include the needs of low-and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions. EPI believes every working person deserves a good job with fair pay, affordable health care, and retirement security.

  • NETWORK

    Through lobbying and legislative advocacy, NETWORK strives to close the gap between rich and poor and to dismantle policies rooted in racism, greed and violence.

  • OXFAM International

    Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations working together with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries against poverty.

  • Poor People’s Campaign

    Founded by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others in 1968, the Poor People’s Campaign is a national call for a moral revival bringing together people to confront systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy.

  • War on Want

    Based in Britain, War on Want is a movement of people who are committed to global justice.

  • Water by Women

    Water Women is an interfaith community for mission, persons who share a passion for bringing clean water to the millions of communities who have contaminated water.