Peace Studies

Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies in Ithaca, New York, is the North American Seat of the Personal Monastery of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. - website

Vision: We envision a future in which CDRC is the lead resource for nurturing constructive responses to the conflicts that inevitably occur in our communities. -website

Non for profit organization specializing in alternative dispute resolution.

The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) is a professional organization enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution. - website

Community Dispute Resolution Centers (CDRCs) are a statewide network of nonprofit organizations providing dialogue and dispute resolution services. -NYCOURTS.GOV

"In 2005, we started the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace to ensure that every child anywhere in the world who wanted to learn to meditate could do so. Now, the Foundation is actively teaching TM to adults and children in countries everywhere." -- David Lynch

At George Washington University. The Media and Peacebuilding Project seeks to understand the constantly developing communication landscape and the unique challenges for human security and peace... - website

Community mediation offers constructive processes for resolving differences and conflicts between individuals, groups, and organizations. - website

We envision a participatory democracy where public problems are resolved through deliberation. - Facebook page

NYSDRA is committed to the promotion & development of quality dispute resolution services in communities

The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) serves as a professional association for scholars in the field of peace and conflict studies. - website

Mission: "To promote world peace and friendship through community-based development and intercultural understanding." -website

PeaceBuilders is a science-based, research-validated violence prevention curriculum and professional development program for grades pre-K to 12.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues. It is one of the six organs of the United Nations (UN) and is located in The Hague, Netherlands. - Wikipedia

As an international think tank, we promote the understanding of conflict processes and intervention from the transformative approach through membership, research, publications, programs, and events. - website

The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) was launched in 2000 in the wake of the public hearings of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). - website

International news today is driven by sensationalism...Peace News Network aims to present the other side – stories from conflict zones we often don’t hear. - website

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is a world-leading peace research organization. We conduct cutting-edge research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. - website

Databases on the arms industry, peace operations, and military expenditures.

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

The United States Institute of Peace is a premier peacebuilding organization. Congress founded USIP in 1984 as an independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to promoting peace by preventing, mitigating and resolving violent conflict abroad. - website

Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA), an international membership association, supports and assists people and communities working at models of restorative justice. VOMA provides resources, training, and technical assistance in victim-offender mediation, conferencing, circles, and related restorative justice practices. - website

University of Nairobi. Limited natural resources are directly or indirectly the source of most conflicts. Well conserved and governed natural resources will go a long way in reducing community conflicts. When the relationships between natural resource scarcity and conflict, and natural resources and prosperity are well-articulated, the community will be able to understand their responsibility and realize that natural resource conservation is indeed self-conservation. - website

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established in 1995 to address the human rights violations committed during the apartheid era in South Africa. - Wikipedia

The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials. - website

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) provided those directly or indirectly affected by the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools system with an opportunity to share their stories and experiences.