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Alliance for Peacebuilding
A network of organizations dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of the conflict resolution field and maximizing its impact on international peace building. The Alliance currently has 40 members including the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding.Beyond Intractability
An online resource created by 200 distinguished scholars and practitioners from around the world who aim to educate and share resources about transforming intractable conflicts.
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
BPF is involved in various peace efforts, including disarmament work, environmental and human rights, and opposing oppression of Buddhists in Bangladesh, Burma, Vietnam, and Tibet.
Conciliation Resources
An independent non-governmental organization working to prevent violence, promote justice and transform conflict into opportunities for development. CR provides practical support to people and groups working in countries affected by armed conflict.
Conflict Transformation Across Cultures – School for International Training
CONTACT is a professional development program designed to strengthen and support the community-building, coexistence, and conflict intervention efforts of peacebuilders internationally. Karuna Center staff members serve as faculty members for the program.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
FOR is an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. FOR educates, trains, builds coalitions, and engages in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.
The Initiative for Inclusive Security
A program of Hunt Alternatives Fund that advocates for the full participation of all stakeholders, especially women, in peace processes. Creating sustainable peace is achieved best by a diverse, citizen-driven approach. Of the many sectors of society currently excluded from peace processes, none is larger—or more critical to success—than women. Since 1999, Inclusive Security has connected more than 500 women experts with over 5,000 policy shapers to collaborate on fresh, workable solutions to long-standing conflicts across the globe.
The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life – Brandeis University
The Center deals with the ethical dilemmas and obligations inherent in global and professional leadership, with particular focus on the challenges of racial, ethnic, and religious pluralism. Examining responses to past conflicts, acts of intervention, and failures to intervene, the Center seeks to enable just and appropriate responses in the future.
Middleway
Middleway is dedicated to promoting non-violence, compassion and peace, using the proven methods of peace walks, bridging dialogue and education.
Nonviolent Peaceforce
An international organization building a trained, international civilian peaceforce to 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.
One by One
One by One promotes dialogue among descendants of survivors, perpetrators, bystanders, and resisters, exploring the legacy of the Holocaust and the Nazi Regime.
Planning and Development Collaborative International
PADCO is an international development consulting firm which has worked in more than 100 countries around the world promoting sustainable economic development, disaster relief, and transitioning to democracy and market-based economies. Karuna has partnered with PADCO for a conflict transformation and peacebuilding project in Senegal. For more information, please visit:
http://www.padco.aecom.com/MarketsAndServices/40/47/index.jsp
School for International Training, Graduate and Professional Studies
SIT offers Master of Arts degrees in Teaching, Conflict Transformation, International Education, Social Justice and Intercultural Relations, Sustainable Development, and Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management. Other programs include an M.S. in Organizational Management and a post-graduate diploma and Master's degree in NGO Leadership and Management.
United Nations, Economic and Social Development
The official web site of United Nations units that deal with issues of economic and social development.
United States Institute of Peace
USIP is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts.
