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PEACE ORGANISATIONS – Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand Peace and Conflict Studies Trust
The aim of Aotearoa New Zealand Peace and Conflict Studies Centre Trust Te Whare O Rongo is to establish in Aotearoa New Zealand a designated, well-funded Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies that brings together research, teaching, tikanga, theory and practice and provides a focal point for New Zealand universities, teachers, students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.
www.peacetrust.org.nz
The Peace Foundation Disarmament & Security Centre
The Christchurch office of The Peace Foundation.
www.disarmsecure.org
ENACT
is a new youth website dedicated to inspiring the participation of young people in peace issues; in Aotearoa and in the world as a whole.
www.enact.org.nz
Peace Movement Aotearoa
Peace Movement Aotearoa is the national networking peace organisation.
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa/New Zealand )
WILPF (Aotearoa) is part of the international women's peace organisation, which has been in existence since 1915.
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/wilpf/
Peace Brigades International (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
PBI offers unarmed international protective accompaniment to human rights activists, refugees, and communities threatened with violence. The support for the work is carried out by members and supporters around the world, including those in PBI/Aotearoa.
http://www.peacebrigades.org/aotearoa.html
National Consultative Committee on Disarmament
The NCCD brings together 20+ NGOs who are keen to see the world become a safer place through disarmament.
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/nccd
New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines
CALM was established in 1993 as an umbrella group for all NGOs supporting a call to ban landmines.
http://www.calm.org.nz
Pax Christi (Aotearoa - NZ)
A local independent section of an international peace movement founded in the Catholic Church in France in 1945.
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/pax/
Centre for Justice and Peace Development (Massey University, Auckland)
The Centre for Justice and Peace Development is an interdisciplinary research centre, providing a focal point for the development and study of the relationship between justice and peace in the Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.
www.massey.ac.nz /~wtie/
Council for International Development
The Council for International Development (CID) works to achieve effective high quality international development programmes which focus on the alleviation and eradication of poverty. CID works to enhance the capacity and participation of member agencies, the New Zealand Government and other sectors of the New Zealand community.
http://www.cid.org.nz
Global Peace & Justice Network Auckland
Global Peace and Justice Auckland (GPJA) is a network of people who provide a platform for individuals and groups to discuss and organise co-operatively on peace and justice issues.
http://gpja.org.nz
Child Development Foundation
The Child Development Foundation (CDF) is an educational charitable trust, established to develop, monitor, implement and promote quality social skills programmes for NZ children, from pre-school to adolescence.
http://www.reachingcdf.org.nz
Human Rights Network
The Human Rights Network is a group of individuals, non-governmental and other organisations sharing information to pursue national and international progress in human rights.
www.humanrights.net.nz
United Nations Association of New Zealand (UNANZ)
www.unanz.org.nz
United Nations Youth Association of New Zealand
The United Nations Youth Association of New Zealand is an organisation run by youth, for youth, dedicated to upholding the spirit of the United Nations through raising the awareness, involvement and empowerment of youth in local, national and international spheres.
www.unyanz.co.nz
The Development Resource Centre (DevZone) (New Zealand)
A specialised resource centre providing information, education and consultancy services on global development issues and practice.
www.dev-zone.org
EPOCH
EPOCH New Zealand Inc is a charitable trust which aims to - end physical punishment of children; educate parents and others about the dangers and disadvantages of physical punishment of children; to promote alternative non-violent ways of helping children behave well and to promote law reform that supports these aims.
www.epochnz.org.nz
Engineers for Social Responsibility
Engineers for Social Responsibility Inc. is an independent group of engineers whose aims include raising the awareness of the engineering profession to the consequences of its activities and explaining and discussing the ramifications of developments in engineering and engineering works to the public.
www.esr.org.nz
NZ Centre for Conflict Resolution (Victoria University, Wellington)
The New Zealand Centre for Conflict Resolution was established in early 1996, by the Victoria University Council with the funding assistance of the VUW Foundation, within the Victoria Law School.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/law/Centres/CCR/CCR.aspx
Greenpeace (New Zealand)
www.greenpeace.net.nz
The Churches' Agency on Social Issues (Methodist, Presbyterian, Churches of Christ, Quakers)
A Christian agency dealing with social, economic, ecological and political matters in Aotearoa New Zealand .
www.casi.org.nz
Internet Safety Group
www.netsafe.org.nz/
Save the Children
Save the Children is a non-political, non-sectarian development agency that delivers immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives worldwide.
www.savethechildren.org.nz
Restorative Justice Centre
Based at AUT University's Institute of Public Policy, this is a multi-disciplinary centre of excellence for training, education and research into restorative justice theory and practice.
http://www.ipp.org.nz/restorativejustice.htm
PEACE ORGANISATIONS – International
Hague Appeal for Peace
The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of individuals and organisations dedicated to sowing the seeds for the abolition of war through advocacy and training in peace education.
www.haguepeace.org
Friends of the Earth (Australia)
Friends of the Earth (FoE) is a federation of autonomous local groups who are working towards an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable future.
www.foe.org.au
Teaching and Learning for Peace (Australia)
Its specific mission is to document, support, develop and present peace-building possibilities based upon story-telling processes to communities both locally and internationally, connecting via the Internet with the purpose of bringing adults and children together to share in the peace-building process.
www.tlpeace.org.au
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
www.amnesty.org
Conflict Resolution Network (Australia)
This comprehensive site takes a broad view of conflict resolution and is packed with news and resources.
www.crnhq.org/
International Peace Bureau
The International Peace Bureau is the world's oldest and most comprehensive international peace federation, bringing together people working for peace in many different sectors: not only pacifists but also women, youth, labour, religious and professional bodies.
www.ipb.org
Australian Peace Committee (South Australia)
The Australian Peace Committee (APC) is a national organisation aimed at promoting disarmament, development and peace.
www.peacecourier.com
Abolition 2000
Abolition 2000 is a network of over 2000 organisations in more than 90 countries worldwide working for a global treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons.
www.abolition2000.org
NonViolent Peace Force
Organisations building trained international civilian peaceforce committed to 3rd party nonviolent intervention.
http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/
AlertNet
Alerting humanitarians to emergencies.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Canadian Peace Alliance
The Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA) is the largest umbrella peace organisation in Canada . Since its foundation in 1985, the organisation has been helping its member groups to act as a broad coalition in order to provide a strong, co-ordinated voice for peace issues at the national level.
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/index.html
Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament
A non-partisan forum for parliamentarians and about parliamentary actions on disarmament issues:
www.pnnd.org
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, to use technology responsibly and sustainably, and to empower youth to create a more peaceful world.
www.wagingpeace.org/
Global Movement for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence
CPNN USA is a site of the Culture of Peace News Network, a global network of interactive Internet sites in many languages for information exchange on events and media productions that promote one or more of the eight keys of a culture of peace. It is a project of the United Nations International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.
http://cpnn-usa.org
LKPY (Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth)
LKYP is an international peace organisation for young people. LKPY believes peace comes from the individual - it's about changing our way of ‘thinking and doing’ to a more serene approach to: ourselves; to others and the environment.
http://www.lkpy.org/index.html
The Baha'i International Community
Information on the persecution of Baha'i's in Iran and Egypt.
http://www.bahai.org/persecution
MEDIA
Connected Media Trust
“Our mission is to promote awareness of and support for sustainable development. We advance that mission by developing and distributing media content.”
www.connectedmedia.org
Indymedia
The Independent Media Centre is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth.
www.indymedia.org
From the Wilderness (USA)
www.fromthewilderness.com
WEAPONS IN SPACE
Stop Star Wars
www.stopstarwars.org/
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
http://www.space4peace.org/
PEACE EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS, RESOURCES & PROGRAMMES
New Society Publishers (USA)
New Society Publishers focuses on books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society.
www.newsociety.com
New Internationalist Magazine
www.newint.com
Pax Educare (The Connecticut Centre for Peace Education, USA)
Pax Educare links educational and community practitioners and institutions to materials, curricula, research and training in peace and conflict studies including: non-violence; mediation; cultural, gender and other issues around diversity; human rights; and ecology and the environment.
www.paxeducare.org
School Mediation Associates (USA)
The mission of School Mediation Associates is to transform schools into safer, more caring, and more effective institutions.
www.schoolmediation.com
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
www.sadako.org
Cranes for Peace (New Zealand)
Also has links to other websites.
http://sasakawa.massey.ac.nz/cranes_for_peace.htm
World Peace Project for Children
The Sadako Peace Project – The mission of the World Peace Project for Children is to promote world peace by educating children about global matters that concern them and by giving them tools to build positive connections with children in other cultures.
www.sadako.com
HELPFUL PEACE EDUCATION WEBSITES
Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution
A resource for students, teachers and practitioners in fields relating to the reduction and elimination of destructive conflict. It is a free, yet valuable, source of information to aid anyone trying to work toward a less violent and more co-operative world.
www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr
Social Studies On-Line (New Zealand)
www.tki.org.nz/r/socialscience/curriculum/SSOL/index_e.php
UN Cyber School Bus
www.un.org/cyberschoolb u s/peace/index.asp
United Nations Disarmament Education
http://disarmament.un.org/education-new/index.html
MIDDLE EAST
Cities for Peace
Cities for Peace is a rapidly growing coalition of local elected officials and concerned citizens working to get their City Councils and other civic bodies to pass resolutions against a war on Iraq. Civic and religious leaders, educators, peace activists, business leaders and individuals from all sectors are coming together across the country to say "no" to President Bush's call for war.
http://www.ips-dc.org/citiesforpeace/resolutions.htm
PACIFIC ISSUES
Pacific Institute of Resource Management (New Zealand)
This site features a selection of writings on the theme of how to move towards a just, sustainable, and democratic global society, living in harmony with the natural world.
www.converge.org.nz/pirm/
Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (Fiji)
The PCRC is home to the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement secretariat, a concise and easily navigated website.
www.pcrc.org.fj
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