Interfaith Movements Working for Just Peace
Faith-Based Organizations Working for Just Peace
Interfaith Dialogue and Community-Building
Educational and Academic Programs
Protect Our Sacred Waters Inter-cultural and Inter-faith Teachings about Water and Water Privatization
INTERFAITH MOVEMENTS WORKING
FOR JUST PEACE
Peace for Life
www.peaceforlife.org
Peace for Life is a global faith-based movement seeking to resist militarised globalisation
and create life-enhancing alternatives.
Interfaith Worker Justice
www.iwj.org
Interfaith Worker Justice is a network of people of faith that calls upon religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize religious communities in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits and conditions for workers, and give voice to workers, especially low-wage workers.
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FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
WORKING FOR JUST PEACE
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
www.bpf.org
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship offers programs, publications, and practice groups which seek to link Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion with progressive social change.
Christian Peacemaker Teams
www.cpt.org
With violence-reduction projects around the world, Christian Peacemaker Teams seeks to model Biblically-based and spiritually-centered peacemaking, emphasizing creative public witness, nonviolent direct action and protection of human rights.
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INTERFAITH DIALOGUE AND COMMUNITY-BUILDING
Faith and the Common Good
www.faith-commongood.net
– Faith and the Common Good includes peoples of differing faiths and cultures who affirm common values of justice, peace, participation, human rights, ecological inter-relationship, and compassion as cornerstones of a healthy society. The organization is currently focussing on the theme Renewing the Sacred Balance - integrating faith, spirituality, and ecology.
Multifaith Action Society
www.multifaithaction.org
The Multifaith Action Society is a Vancouver-based society promoting interfaith dialogue, understanding, and collaboration, as well as offering information and resources on world religions to the wider community.
New Democratic Party’s Faith and
Social Justice Caucus
www.ndp-faith-justice-foi-npd.ca
The NDP’s Faith and Social Justice Caucus seeks to bring people together from diverse religious backgrounds to share ideas and information, as well as to foster a better perspective on the relationship between religion and politics, within a perspective of social justice.
The Scarboro Missions Interfaith Office
www.scarboromissions.ca/Interfaith_dialogue/index.php
The Scarboro Missions Interfaith office is a Christian grassroots effort at interfaith dialogue with an emphasis on social justice. The Interfaith Office also offers a poster and resources detailing the “Golden Rule” across world religions.
Interfaithing
http://www.interfaithing.com
The premise of interfaith is to unite people of different faiths (or no faith), and establish a moral common ground by focusing on the similarities between faiths, understanding of values, and commitment to humanity.
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EDUCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, Simon Fraser University
www.sfu.ca/history/ccsmsc
The Centre’s mission is to encourage the academic discussion and public understanding of the cultures and societies of Muslim peoples in the past and present, encouraging the shift in analysis from the notion of a single unitary religious ideascape defined by Islam to a more complex view of Muslims as agents in the construction of their own history.
Word and World : A People's School
www.wordandworld.org
Describing itself as a “moveable institute”, Word and World seeks to provide education, training, and capacity-building for Christian disciples dedicated to the work of social transformation.
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PROTECT OUR SACRED WATERS INTER-CULTURAL AND INTER-FAITH TEACHINGS ABOUT WATER AND WATER PRIVATIZATION
BC Citizens for Public Power
www.citizensforpublicpower.ca
BC Citizens for Public Power is a non-profit, grassroots organization established to give voice to British Columbians' demand that BC's power generation system remain in public hands.
Save Our Rivers Society
www.ourrivers.ca
Save Our Rivers Society was founded to protect BC rivers from private hydropower contracts and for future generations.
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Mother Earth Water Walk
www.motherearthwaterwalk.com
A group of Anishinabe-que and supports have taken action regarding the water issue by walking the perimeter of the Great Lakes with a copper bucket of water. This walk is to raise awareness how, we, the human beings on this planet need to know, and take care of our precious resource, the water.
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Rivers for Generations
www.publicpowerbc.ca/rivers-for-generations
Take Back the Power campaign of COPE378 is working to stop the transfer of ownership rights of over 500 wild and scenic parts of BC Rivers by the BC governemnt to private power companies.
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