Recommended Links

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Organizations Working in Religion and Conflict

World Conference of Religions for Peace has a Women of Faith Transforming Conflict: A Multi-Religious Training Manual, available for download as a pdf here.

Abraham's Vision

Everyday Ghandis

Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions

Center For Reduction of Religious-Based Conflict

The World Council of Religious Leaders

Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance Home Page

Seiple's Institute for Global Engagement

A Different Future

Institute on Religion and Policy

International Center for Religion and Diplomacy

The Pluralism Project

Religions in Renewal: Global Dialogue

Committee of Religious Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations

The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

The World Council of Churches

The Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education offers resources and educational opportunities to independent schools for state-of-the-art programs in moral development, ethical leadership, growth of the spirit, and instruction about our world's religious traditions.

GlobalPeaceWorks brings people of diverse spiritual traditions together for cooperative, charitable service projects.

The Harmony Institute explores and promotes the common core teachings of all the religions.

Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington

International Council of Christians and Jews serves as the umbrella organisation of 38 national Jewish-Christian dialogue organisations world-wide.

Jewish-Christian Relations is devoted to fostering mutual respect and understanding between Christians and Jews around the world.

North American Interfaith Network is a non-profit association of interfaith organizations and agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance

Ecumene.org dedicated to buiding bridges between diverse faiths and ideologies

Religions in Renewal is a site to link members of groups within the major established religions or ideologies who are seeking respectfully and gradually to reform their traditions from within while remaining loyal to the spirit of their path.

Institute on Religion and Public Policy

International Center for Religion and Diplomacy

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Conflict or Country-Specific Organizations

The Sulha Peace Project. Sulha is an indigenous, Middle Eastern way of reconciliation.

The Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI) is an umbrella organization of over 70 Jewish, Muslim and Christian institutions actively working towards interreligious and intercultural understanding in Israel and the region.

The Jordanian Interfaith Coexistence Research Center

Restoration Ministries (Nothern Ireland)

The Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland "Thinking Biblically, Building Peace" (formerly known as ECONI--Evangelical Contribution on Northern Ireland)

The Corrymeela Community (Northern Ireland)

Project that covers peacemakers in Israel/Palestine: Just Vision

The Interfaith Encounter Association (Middle East)

Interfaith Voices for Peace and Justice has a directory of over 700 organizations actively seeking peace and justice

The Life and Peace Institute , based in Sweden, is an international and ecumenical centre of research on and action for peace and justice.

Jordan's Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS) provides a venue in the Arab world for the interdisciplinary study and rational discussion of religion and religious issues, with particular reference to Christianity in Arab and Islamic society.

The European Project for Interreligious Learning focuses on Christian-Muslim relations and on the contribution that women can make to a climate of social and religious peace. It is a 'roaming college', and takes place in five locations: Zurich, Barcelona, Berlin, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Beirut.

Operation Understanding DC (Washington DC)

The Rumi Forum (Washington DC), whose mission is to foster interfaith and intercultural dialogue and to provide a platform for education and information exchange

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Research Centers

The Kroc Institute at Notre Dame University

Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University

Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), Washington, DC

Council for Research in Philosophy and Values

The Institute for Theology and Peace, a research institution of the Catholic Church

Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations at Cambridge University

The Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding at Muhlenburg College

The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University

Engaging with Religion in Conflict-Prone Settings, part of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University

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Resources for Interfaith Dialogue

Resources for Interreligious Dialogue at the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

The Cathedral Heritage Foundation (CHF) is a non-profit, inter-religious organization. Its mission is to promote inter-religious understanding and the civic role of the historic Cathedral of the Assumption. They have produced a guide to creating your own Festival of Faiths, available here as a Word document.

The Wabash Center has an extensive listing of links and resources relating to interreligious dialogue

Interfaith Youth Core helps thousands of religiously devout young people answer the call to service in their traditions to give back to their communities. IYC's Director Eboo Patel had an interview on NPR's This I Believe program. You can listen to it here.

Guidelines on Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies from the World Council of Churches

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Resources for Learning about the World's Religions and Religious Traditions

BBC page on Religion and Ethics

BBC Religions A-Z

The Internet Sacred Text Archive

Another index of religious and sacred texts online (Note: some links are broken)

Guide to Internet Sources for teaching and learning in theology and religion from the Wabash Center

Religious Studies Web Guide at the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary also has a listed of relevant academic journals, sorted by religion

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Other Recommended Sites

The Compassionate Listening Project

Initiatives of Change Global Homepage

Hope in the Cities

West Africa Center for Peacebuilding

Jerusalem Stories

Global PeaceWorks

The National Cathedral

You can listen online to these broadcasts of interest from American Public Media's Speaking of Faith Radio show:

Truth and Reconciliation

Religious Pluralism, Passion, and the Young

Living Reconciliation: Two Ecumenical Pioneers

Religion and Violence

Violence and Crisis in Islam

Children of Abraham

A perspective on Islam in Iraq

 

Interreligious Dialogue

Online Bibliograpy of Religion, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

Interworldview

Find Resources by tradition at the Pluralism Project

If you would like us to add your site or organization to this list, please let us know.

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