It’s 2011 Peace Week!
There are many organizations dedicated to the pursuit of peace; cultivating peace within ourselves, having a peaceful relationship with others, offering peaceful resolution to conflict, building peace within a community or culture, or striving towards global peace between nations.
Click HERE to go to the Peace Week site and register. You will then be sent a confirmation link, which will take you to the remaining speakers’ schedule. You can listen in live or access recordings of all the 2011 speakers, as well as the 2010 event’s speakers.
Below is a list of the 2011 Peace Week co-sponsors, a summary of their purpose, and a link to their website as provided by the Peace Week org. Most of these are non-profit organizations; consider supporting one that inspires you! At the very least, take some time and consider what you can do to be the possibility of peace in your corner of the world.
The Shift Network aims to empower a global movement of people who are creating an evolutionary shift of consciousness that in turn leads to a more enlightened society, one built on principles of sustainability, peace, health, and prosperity. Now is the time for an upgrade to our planetary operating system. If you are part of this Shift, please join us as we create events, programs, and activities that help us evolve! You can view our big-picture vision for the next three years here: www.vision2012plan.com
The Peace Alliance empowers civic engagement toward a culture of peace. We are a grassroots alliance of organizers and advocates throughout the United States taking the work of peacebuilding from the margins of society into the centers of national discourse and policy priorities.
Pathways To Peace (PTP) is an international PeaceBuilding, Educational and Consulting organization. “Peace”, as it is defined by Pathways To Peace, is both an innate state of being and a dynamic, evolutionary process. Peace begins with ourselves, living in harmony with one another, the Earth and all Circles of Life.
Since 1983, the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) has served as a vehicle for bringing forward the previously unseen and unheard voices working towards Peace. It also serves to unite the strengths of existing individuals and organizations building Cultures of Peace for succeeding generations.
The Summer of Peace 2012 is an innovative initiative designed to accelerate the shift from a culture of violence to a culture of peace through global and local collaborations, best practices, civic engagement and inspirational events. We will focus on creating a series of dynamic events in the summer of 2012 – concerts, conferences, trainings, neighborhood circles, school interventions, civic leadership gatherings, peace pledges and more. ~ website not available
PeaceDay.TV offers year round global broadcasting of humanitarian events, their annual featured presentation takes place September 17 – 21, in celebration of the International Day of Peace. It features sustainable solutions, entertainment, music, festivals, celebrities, films, awards, & peace building partners.
TakingITGlobal (TIG) is an international organization, led by youth, and empowered by technology. TIG brings together young people (aged 13-31) in over 200 countries and territories within international networks to connect to opportunities, and collaborate on concrete projects – addressing global problems and creating positive change.
Hendricks Institute is an International Learning Center that teaches core skills for conscious living and conscious loving. Our work over the past three decades has been to assist people in opening to more creativity, love, and vitality through the power of conscious relationship and whole-person learning. We are passionately committed to creating a worldwide community of people with whom we can explore new heights of love, creativity, and well-being.
The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions cultivates harmony among the world’s religious and spiritual communities and fosters their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world. The Council also organizes and hosts the world’s largest interfaith gathering, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, in a different international city every five years.
Humanity’s Team is a fast-growing spiritual movement “awakening the world to Oneness” within a generation. The movement, with some 60,000 teammates mobilized in more than 150 countries, sees this awakening as essential to world peace. Indeed, on May 20, veteran U.N. envoy Anwarul K. Chowdhury declared on receiving a Humanity’s Team-inspired petition seeking a U.N.-approved Oneness Day, that peace efforts would “go nowhere” until people recognized we are all one.
The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) is a coalition of diverse organizations and professionals working together to build sustainable peace and security worldwide. Members of AfP are directly engaged in applied conflict prevention and resolution, providing negotiation and mediation services, training negotiators, facilitating communication to break down barriers, and helping find solutions to the issues and pressures that otherwise drive groups and nations to achieve their objectives through violent force.
Peace X Peace lifts and multiplies women’s voices, strengthens women’s capacity to connect across divides, promotes leadership and gender equity, and nurtures our global network of peacebuilders in 120 countries.
The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers represents a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children.
Times Foundation is a development house set up by the Times of India Group to promote equitable, inclusive and sustainable development, facilitating affirmative interventions for self-development, education, health, women’s empowerment, environment and disaster management.
Student Peace Alliance engages our communities and policy makers in building sustainable peace. We advocate for evidence-based legislation and policy that will enhance our capacity to reduce violence and build sustainable peace both domestically and internationally. We practice and promote community peacebuilding efforts that engage people in the day-to-day work of understanding and preventing violence in our homes, communities, and institutions.
The National Peace Academy supports, advances and nurtures cultures of peace by conducting research and facilitating learning toward the development of peace systems – local to global – and the development of the full spectrum of the peacebuilder – inner and outer, personal and professional. In all its operations, internal and external, the National Peace Academy strives to embody and reflect the principles and processes of peace.
The Shift Movie: The “movie made by a movement” chronicles a massive worldwide phenomenon in progress, offering seeds of great hope for the future. Millions of individuals, organizations and corporations around the world are waking up and embracing a new outlook with an emphasis on their responsibility to contribute positively to our collective future.University of Colorado’s Conflict Information Consortium was founded in 1988 as a multi-disciplinary center for research and teaching about conflict and its transformation.
International Cities of Peace is an association of Cities of Peace that fosters peace as the consensus value for communities around the world. The organization networks, encourages, documents, and provide resources and information for leaders and organizations working to self-define and work in their communities as Cities of Peace.
One the Event is inspired by the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and the passion of Seattle Fire Fighter Erik Lawyer. With more than 3 million people around the world, we will make a collective shift by choosing love over fear, kindness over anger, and responsibility rather than blame. In remembrance of the tragedies of September 11th and the wars that followed, we honor all those senselessly lost by rebuilding our relationships with love and kindness, and celebrate our global unity.
The Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) was founded to help awaken and mobilize spiritual energies with the goal of aiding in healing and unifying the world community. GPIW facilitates this by seeking to gather together those of great insight, wisdom, compassion and dedication, many of whom are working quietly for the upliftment of the world.
Intersections International is a New York based NGO that works at the intersection of communities in conflict. We promote peace through dialogue using direct service programs, advocacy, educational and informational outreach.
The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization seeks to help individuals re-discover and strengthen their inherent worth by encouraging and facilitating a process of spiritual awakening. This leads to an awareness of the importance of thoughts and feelings as the seeds of actions.
United Religions Initiative (URI) is an internationally recognized global network connecting more than 500 grassroots groups and organizations, called Cooperation Circles (CCs), around a shared vision of interreligious peace and cooperation for the common good. Our powerful community engages nearly half a million people in social and political action in 78 countries.
Praxis Peace Institute is a non-profit, peace-education organization dedicated to deep inquiry, constructive dialogue, creative problem solving, and informed civic participation.
YES! connects, inspires and collaborates with change-makers to join forces for a thriving, just and sustainable ways of life for all. Our three program areas are global leadership Jams, on-going support networks, and resources & communications. We work at the meeting point of internal, interpersonal, and systemic transformation.
Just Vision: Increasing the power and legitimacy of Palestinians and Israelis working for nonviolent solutions to the conflict.
We, The World is a Global Collaboration for a Livable Future. We promote solutions for a world that works for all. Our programs and events are designed to Inspire, Inform and Involve increasing numbers of people in the growing global movement that has the transformative consciousness of peace and service to people and the planet at its core. We, The World produces .11 Days of Global Unity, September 11 -21 and the We Campaign.
The Compassionate Action Network (CAN) is a network of self-organizing groups who share a common vision for a compassionate world.
The Rasur Foundation is implimenting a Ministry for Peace that collaborates with a national Academy for Peace, which trains peace teachers in schools to teach the practice of BePeace in their community.
At World Peace Prayer Society, our mission is simple. To spread the Universal Peace Message and Prayer, May Peace Prevail On Earth, far and wide to embrace the lands and people of this Earth
Peace On Earth Film Festival (POEFF) has reviewed over 400 films on peace, nonviolence, social justice and eco-balance over the past 2 years and has offered to the public through the festival, 76 films of the highest quality, mission on peace modalities and excellence of craftsmanship. The festival also offers Filmmaker and Peacemaker Panel discussions. The POEFF also has a well tested curriculum which was successfully piloted through the Chicago Public School (over 1,500 students in the last 6 weeks of 2009/2010 school year).
BayNVC’s vision is to create a world where everyone’s needs matter and people have the skills to make peace.
The Center for Sacred Studies is dedicated to sustaining indigenous ways of life through cross-cultural practices, ministry and education, and a commitment to peace and unity for all peoples.
Earthdance: The world’s largest synchronized global music and dance event for world peace and sustainability uniting over 350 locations in 65 countries on Saturday Sept 18th. The climax of the event is the playing of a spoken word music track, “The Prayer for Peace” at every location at exactly the same time.
Empowerment Works! (EW) is dedicated to empowering people, businesses and organizations with the tools, resources and knowledge they need to co-create a healthy, culturally rich, and bio-diverse future. EW achieves this mission via 3 synergistic program areas: 7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS) – Framework & Education 4 Local Solutions; Partners In Empowerment™ (PIE) Collaborative Knowledge Base & Network; The Global Summit™ (TGS) TGS 2010: “Humanity Uniting” Nov 7-10 in SF! Together we can.
This small unique Meditation Museum invites visitors to enhance the quality of their thoughts, their lives and the world around them. The museum is specifically designed to bring us back to a knowledge of our true selves and our responsibility to humanity. Our hope is that everyone who experiences the museum finds his or her own authentic meaning for life.
CSRwire is the leading global source of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability news. Founded in 1999 to advance the movement towards a more economically-just and environmentally-sustainable society and away from single bottom line capitalism, CSRwire has paved the way for new standards of corporate citizenship, earning the international respect of thought leaders, business leaders, academics, philanthropists, activists and the media community. Through innovative techniques and strategic partnerships, CSRwire continues to expand its content, communication technology and distribution channels exponentially.
Odyssey Networks is a media organization delivering videos of interfaith news beyond the headlines and inspirational stories of faith in action.
