Theology Department
St. Stephen's
Episcopal School
Austin, Texas

Curriculum
-theology 12
-theology 8
-theology senior elective

Resources
-books
-community service
-ethics
-human rights, interfaith dialogue, & peacemaking
-environmental concerns
-historical figures
-larger perspectives
-practice

Contact

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This page is a starting place; each link will direct you to many more links.

Amnesty International's site is comprehensive, and includes links to many other sites.

Sojourners, where spiritual, political, economic and environmental concerns intersect.

Call to Renewal "invites churches and other faith-based organizations to join together in a biblical commitment to overcome poverty, dismantle racism, promote healthier families and supportive communities, and reassert the dignity of each human life."

The United Religion Initiative Charter represents "an effort among people of faith from around the world to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, help end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings."

Peacemaking with the International Nonviolent Peace Force, which encourages large numbers of people to engage in peaceful actions that inspire hope, provide meaning and call them to higher values in an international, multiethnic standing peace force that will be trained in nonviolent strategies and tactics and deployed to conflicts or potentially violent areas. The international peace force will work in cooperation with local groups committed to peaceful change, carry out strategies designed to lessen violence or its potential and create the space for peaceful resolution to occur.
Effective examples of this type of third party nonviolent intervention have progressively grown during the latter part of this century. Peace Brigades International, the Balkan Peace Teams, Witness for Peace, PEACEWORKERS, the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, Christian Peacemaker Teams, SIPAZ, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and others operate in numerous countries including Colombia, Guatemala, the Balkans, the U.S., Israel/Palestine, Mexico and Nicaragua. Most are doing small scale, highly specialized activities designed to be an active presence to lower the potential or current levels of violence and support local peacemakers. They are creating an invaluable knowledge and experiential base of nonviolent peacemaking.
The International Peace Force represents an alternative to massive military intervention that many people hope for but does not yet exist. Building on the important peace team work throughout the world, this project will bring peacemaking activity to a dramatic, new level. We need to develop a strategic, efficient and effective response to brutality and threats of genocidal violence.
Last spring over 9,000 activists from 100 countries converged on the Hague asserting that "peace is a human right" and that "it is time to abolish war." This proposal was drafted as a consequence of a series of formal and informal discussions during the Hague Appeal for Peace conference. It has since been reviewed, discussed and critiqued by hundreds of nonviolent activists, scholars and military veterans from various parts of the world. It truly is a work in progress that will continue to unfold based on the wisdom and experience of many co-creators. The International Peace Force advances the experiments with nonviolence and helps bring life to the United Nations' Decade of Nonviolence and Gandhi's earlier vision of a Shanti Sena (Nonviolent peace army)

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