Best Websites: Peace Studies

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting strengthens local journalism in areas of conflict. By training reporters, facilitating dialogue and providing reliable information, it supports peace, democracy and development in societies undergoing crisis and change. IWPR is led by senior journalists and peace researchers, with staff drawn from established media such as the BBC, The Guardian and Reuters.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt offers a unique opportunity to educate people about HIV/AIDS and infection prevention, to remember those who have died, and to comfort the grieving and help them heal. It shows the humanity behind the statistics.

The National Arts Administration and Policy Publications Database is a comprehensive research/resource tool containing approximately 7,000 items (published since 1960) documenting information on the arts and culture in the United States. It includes topics such as: Community Development and the Arts, Cultural Policy, Arts Advocacy, Arts Participation, Public Art, etc.

A program of Americans for the Arts Institute for Community Development and the Arts, Animating Democracy fosters arts and cultural activity that encourages and enhances civic engagement and dialogue.

The mission of the Global Art Project (GAP) is to spread world peace by promoting tolerance and non-violence through art.

Precious Lives, created by 371 Productions, is a two-year, 100-part radio series broadcast on WUWM about young people and gun violence in Milwaukee.

This site documents and provides links to the Web community response (including virtual art, news accounts, memorials, etc.) to September 11, 2001.

Social change is both the process and effect of efforts to positively alter societal conditions. It encompasses a range of outcomes—healing, increased awareness, attitudinal change, more diverse and increased civic participation, movement building, and policy change to name just a few.

Safeguarding the cultural heritage is one of UNESCO’s chief tasks. Their mission is also to mainstream cultural diversity into policy agendas at national and international levels, protect the world’s cultural diversity through cultural and natural heritage preservation, encourage arts and crafts for sustainable development, and encourage the use of arts and crafts to eradicate poverty. The site is rich in information and links.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has created this site to support its mission to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.

Founded by Andrew Carnegie over a century ago, the Council sets the global ethical agenda and work for an ethical future by convening leading experts, building active communities, producing agenda-setting resources, and catalyzing the creation of ethical solutions to global problems.

This web site was conceived in May 2002 by Anne M. Yoder as a response to the many requests received at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection for information about conscientious objection. The Peace Collection has a very large amount of material by and about COs in the United States, but even so, there are many other institutions with primary sources that could be helpful to scholars and other researchers. The goal for the site has been to provide information and as many links as possible to archival sources in particular, as well as lists of other resources available and background information about conscientious objection in America.

H-Peace is an international electronic network affiliated with the Peace History Society that seeks to broaden understanding about historical and contemporary peace, justice, and disarmament concerns.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection documents non-governmental efforts for nonviolent social change, disarmament, and conflict resolution. Established over 90 years ago, the Peace Collection is the most extensive research library and archive collection in the United States focusing solely on movements for peace around the world.

The Peace History Society was founded in 1964 to encourage, and coordinate national and international scholarly work to explore and articulate the conditions and causes of peace and war, and to communicate the findings of scholarly work to the public.

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, is an international scientific organization dedicated to reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems.

Science for Peace was established in 1981, as the final decade of the Cold War began. It is a charitable organization dedicated to popular education and research in the fields of peace, sustainability and justice.

Founded in 1969 by faculty members and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were concerned about the misuse of science and technology in society, the UCS is a nonprofit partnership of scientists and citizens combining rigorous scientific analysis, innovative policy development and effective citizen advocacy to achieve practical environmental solutions.

Established by UNESCO in 2001, the WSDPD is celebrated on 10 November each year. Its goals are to strengthen public awareness on the role of science for peaceful and sustainable societies, to promote national and international solidarity for a shared science between countries, to renew national and international commitment for the use of science for the benefit of societies, and to draw attention to the challenges faced by science and raise support for the scientific endeavor.

The Red Cross is committed to saving lives and easing suffering. It serves humanity and helps by providing relief to victims of disaster, both locally and globally.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in nearly 70 countries. It includes volunteer doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other medical and non-medical professionals.

The International Committee of the Red Cross is an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed violence.

Founded in 1919, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training, relief and development programs. It was established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses as a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization with a mission to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide where few organizations dare to serve.

Founded in the Summer of 1997, Medical Bridges, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to procuring medical and surgical equipment for donation to qualified providers of charitable medical care in developing countries.

Medicine for Peace is an organization of physicians and nurses caring for mothers and children who are victims of war. The roots of Medicine for Peace were planted during the El Salvadoran Civil War when a group of concerned American physicians supplied medicine to clinics in villages devastated by the war. Since that time, we have been steadfast in our mission - to provide medical care and humanitarian assistance to children who are victims of war.

This page has links related to peace, nonviolence, terrorism, conflict resolution, and more.

The mission of PsySR is to use psychological knowledge and skills to promote peace, social justice, human rights, and sustainability at the community, national and international levels.

Established within the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1990, its purpose is to increase and apply psychological knowledge in the pursuit of peace. Peace here is defined broadly to include both the absence of war and the creation of positive social conditions which minimize destructive conflicts and promote human well-being.