Member Organizations
Organizations choose to become Nonviolent Peaceforce Members because they see themselves as mutual partners-with NP and with each other-in the local, regional and international movement and practice of unarmed, non-violent civilian peacekeeping. Member Organizations are nongovernmental Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), however constituted or organized, of international or national scope or, in large nations, of at least regional scope, that have committed themselves to regular and substantial work in support of NP's mission, while upholding its nonpartisanship. They may apply for membership or be invited by the International Governance Council.
AFRICA
Academic Associates/PeaceWorks
Academic Associates/PeaceWorks' (AAPW's) mission is to build capacities for managing conflict through studies, intervention and peace awareness in society. The main objectives of AAPW:
- To build awareness of the need and possibilities of peace in society.
- To empower individuals and groups in building peace through training and networking.
- To develop the framework for the peace process through action-oriented research and intervention in current of potential conflicts.
Contact Details: Plot 1765, Abubakar Koko Crescent, Off Maitama Sule Street, Behind WHO, Asokoro-Abuja, Nigeria www.aapw.org Tel: +234 9 6702292, +234 9 3149009
Chemchemi ya Ukweli-Wellspring of Truth
Wellspring of Truth is an interfaith peace movement initiated in 1997 by a small group of religious leaders concerned about the growing violence in Kenya. Their desire is to bring about justice and peace through active non-violent means.
Contact Details: P.O.BOX 14370 - 00800 Westlands<br> Nairobi, Kenya Tel: 254 20 4446970 or 20 4442294 Fax: 254 20 4444023 Email: chemchemi@africaonline.co.ke Website: http://www.chemichemi.org
COSEDDH, Senegalese Coalition of Human Rights Defenders
The mission of the Senegalese Human Rights Defenders Coalition (COSEDDH) is to work for the guarantee and the application of all necessary measures for the protection of human rights defenders at-risk and to provide, upon demand, judicial, psychological, moral, medical, and social assistance to these defenders. The vision of COSEDDH is to put an end to attacks against human rights defenders by solidarity and campaign actions, by working for peace, justice, the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Contact Details: 35, Boulevard du General de Gaulle, P.O. Box 17368, Dakar - Liberte', Senegal Tel: +221.864.26.65, Fax: +221.864.26.64
Mano River Women's Network works to lobby heads of state and advocates for women's participation in the region's peace process.
Contact Details: www. marwopnet.prg Tel: (224) 45 90 77
NOVASC - Nonviolent Action and Strategies for Social Change
NOVASC's work is done primarily in Zimbabwe and in contact and exchange with Africa and global partners. The main objectives for the organization are as follows:
- Strengthen organizations that represent people who need changes to happen, so that they have the skills to make those changes happen without violence, for example by negotiations;
- Build a national network of mediators drawn from many relevant sectors of society;
- Share experiences and dilemmas of dealing with conflicts, disputes, negotiations, deadlocks, and the use of violence, so as to contribute to a national dialogue towards tolerance and dynamic peace;
- Contribute to policy formulation and governance practice in relation to social dialogue, negotiations and national process.
Contact Details: Zimbabwe www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/pcn/novasc.html 9 Routledge St., Milton Park P.O. Box CY 369 Causeway Harare, Zimbabwe Tel/Fax: 2634 72 2168
WANEP -West Africa Network for Peacekeeping
WANEP seeks to:
- Strengthen the capability of peace-building organizations and practitioners in West Africa to engage actively in the peaceful transformation of violent conflicts
- Increase awareness of the use of nonviolent strategies in responding to conflicts in West Africa
- Develop a conflict prevention network in West Africa to monitor, report and offer indigenous perspectives and understanding of conflicts in West Africa
- Harmonize peace-building activities in West Africa through networking and coordination of WANEP members.
- Develop the justice lens of peace-building to create understanding of the impact of truth, justice, and reconciliation on peace-building in West Africa.
Contact Details: Ghana/ Senegal www.wanep.org PO Box CT 4434 CantonmentsGhana/ Senegal www.wanep.org PO Box CT 4434 Cantonments Accra, Ghana Tel: 233-0-21-221318 233-0-21-221388, 233-0-21-256439, 233-0-21-258299, Fax: (233) (0) 21 221735
ASIA PACIFIC
AKKAPKA (Action for Peace and Justice)
AKKAPKA is a network of groups in Philippines working to promote and support creative non-violence as a way of life. We serve as a catalyst in the formation of groups and individuals throughout the country who are committed to creative non-violence as an expression of the radical gospel as well as the practical basis for social change in the Philippines. The Formation-Information-Transformation Program of the Foundation aims to inform, deepen, and sustain a constant reflection on and sharing of experiences in the use of creative non-violent action towards personal and societal transformation.
Contact Details: 293 M.H. del Pilar St., Maysilo, Malabon, Philippines Tel: +63 2 5312808
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development-FORUM-ASIA
FORUM-ASIA facilitates collaboration among human rights organizations in Asia so as to develop a regional response for the promotion of human rights and democracy in the region. Collaboration between members of FORUM-ASIA is based on the understanding that human rights and fundamental freedoms are indivisible and interdependent. They include not only civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights but also the rights of peoples to pursue freely their economic, social and cultural development
Thailand
Contact Details: Thailand 109 Sutthisanwinichai Road, Samsennok, Huaykwang, Bangkok 10320, Thailand Fax: (662)693-4939
Association of Peoples of Asia
The Associate strives to fulfill the following objectives:
- To foster friendship and understanding amongst the people of Asia for a peaceful and nonviolent world.
- To identify cultural, education and voluntary organizations in different countries of Asia with similar objectives and to develop contact with them
- To organize conferences, seminars, workshops, peace marches, lectures, and other ways of interaction amongst the people.
- To promote and facilitate meaningful exchanges and interactions amongst social activists, intellectuals, professionals, artists, writers, women, youth, farmers, and artisans of different countries of Asia.
• To organize humanitarian help at the time of natural calamities and render needed services to the affected people.
Contact Details: India Gandhi Ashram, Kingsway Camp New Delhi - 110 009 - India Tel: 27 743-4514; Fax: 27 4652566 Email: nirmala@sansad.nic.in
Center for the Study and Promotion of Peace, Duta Wacana Christian University
Empowering individuals and communities for peace-building in families, religious communities, working places, and within society based on love, truth, justice, and peace through research and promotion of peace, education and training, consultation and conflict intervention, trauma healing, and provision of information.
Contact Details: Indonesia Jalan Dr. Wahidin 5-9 Jogjakarta 55224 Indonesia Tel: +62-274-563-929 ext. 108 ; Fax: (127) 451-3235 www.ukdw.ac.id/lpip/pspp/indexeng.html
Committee for Nonviolent Action in Burma -(CNAB)
CNAB is a coalition operating in India and along the India-Burma border to
foster coalition building and promote democracy at the grassroots level in Burma.
Contact Details: India 401, DG III, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-18, India Tel: 91 11 5511 076; Fax: 91-11-5517871 cnab@del13.vsn1.net.in
Foundation for Democracy - Pakistan (FDP)
The Foundation for Democracy Pakistan (FDP) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental organization committed to promote peace, democracy, and justice in Pakistan. It provides a forum and programs supporting civic activity and education, and promoting research, development and dissemination of materials relevant to the goals and purposes of the Foundation.
The organization is dedicated to formulating strategic and innovative proposals on relevant issues of national interest, enhancing the quality of the national debate, and devising public policies crucial to the Pakistan's good governance and socio-economic development.
Its overall vision is to empower the people of Pakistan so that they can protect their social, economic, cultural and political rights and to bring them closer together. By working together, appreciating each other's culture, and increasing the level of knowledge, this will transform citizens into a socially cohesive, politically conscious, economically prosperous, and culturally harmonized unit.
FDP also envisions to devise strategies and public policy initiatives with a specific agenda to strengthen democracy, peace, and justice, so that the country may become a governable nation doused in an accelerated and sustainable modernization process and fair socioeconomic development.
Contact Details: Pakistan 76/7B Arif Jan Road Lahore-Cantt, Pakistan Tel: +92-42-667-3844 Fax:+ 92-42-667-0001 www.democracy.org.pk
Nonviolent Peaceforce, Japan
Supports the work of Nonviolent Peaceforce International through fundraising and networking.
Contact Details: Japan Hakusan 1-31-9, Kobayashi Bldg 3F, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0001, Japan Tel: 81-80-5520-3077, Fax: 81-3-56845870 www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~npj
Nonviolent Peaceforce, Korea
Contact Details: Mihwa Lee, Sung-Joon Park, & Young Kim, 35 Choongjeung - no 2Ga, Seudaemun-gu Seoul 120-012 Korea www.peacewave.net
PAKAT (Voluntary Peaceful and Nonviolent Initiatives, Actions for Mediation)
Bring together Muslims, Christians and Lumad (indigenous peoples) to seek peaceful solutions to the conflicts in the war-torn southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines and protect civilian populations there from the violence.
Contact Details: Philippines 1180 Chino Roces Ave., San Antonio Village, Makati City, Philippines 1202 Tel: (0632) 8907619
Peace Boat
An international educational and networking NGO developing new ways to tackle global challenges by traveling the world by ship. Our main areas of concern are:
- Peace
- Human Rights
- Sustainable development and the environment
Through our educational peace voyages, we aim to raise awareness through learning and sharing experiences with the peoples of the world, while at the same time building partnerships with NGOs from all five continents in the support of grass roots projects.
Contact Details: Japan 3-14-3-2F, Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0075, Japan Tel: +81 3 3363 8047 www.peaceboat.org
Peace Information Center
Originally designed to be an information wing for NGOs working in Thai society on issues relating to peace and nonviolence, the Peace Information Center soon realized that the expanded concept of peace - which includes all kinds of work towards the eradication of direct, structural and cultural violence - covers an extremely broad spectrum of activities. Recently it has redefined its focus to work mainly in the fields of conflict resolution, with a strong emphasis on nonviolent actions. Three main areas of the Peace Information Center's work help characterize its overall approach:
- Providing peace & nonviolence information in general
- Providing peace & nonviolence information during crisis situations
• Working with state agencies on peace & nonviolence
Contact Details: Thailand Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Bangkok, 10200, Thailand Fax: 011 662 391 3259
RCED (Resource Center for Empowerment and Development)
Contact Details: Ms. Charmaine Baconga, #53 A 12th St., Zone 2 Upper Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines (+63) 88 22 73 5946
Swaraj Peeth Trust
Swaraj Peeth is a non-profit institution, established in 1992, working to build the capacity of civil society to resolve conflicts without violence. We strive to inspire unity where division prevails through a program of education in Mahatma Gandhi's vision (based on his first text, Hind Swaraj), training in nonviolent conflict resolution, and the direct intervention of Shanti Sena teams in conflict situations. The Shanti Sena is a network of community-based, civilian peacekeeping teams that apply nonviolent methods of conflict resolution to prevent violence. Swaraj Peeth's work is driven by the conviction that when communities unite in common purpose and transcend partisan interests, there is no limit to what progress they can achieve.
Contact Details: G-92, Second Floor, South City - II Sohna Road Gurgaon Haryana 122018 India Tel: +91 124 221 7378 swaraj@swarajpeeth.org www.swarajpeeth.org
The Peace Foundation
The Peace Foundation offers innovative and quality programs, services and resources that are used in many schools, homes and communities - both in New Zealand and overseas. It helps to establish and maintain peaceful and non-violent relationships by teaching skills that encourage better communication, anger management, co-operation and non-violent conflict resolution.
The Peace Foundation arranges public events such as the annual Media Peace Awards. These awards recognize those who are actively contributing towards reducing violence in our society. The Peace Foundation draws on the knowledge, skills and energy of a team of highly qualified and experienced individuals who are committed to meeting the aims of the organization. A number of whom are acknowledged both nationally and internationally for the roles they have played and are playing in creating a more peaceful world.
Contact Details: New Zealand PO Box 4110 Auckland1 New Zealand Tel: +64 9 373 2379 www.peace.net.nz
Women Making Peace
Women Making Peace is a specialized movement organization formed to realize reunification and peace on the Korean peninsula and to make peace in Asia and the world. Women Making Peace have the following activities:
- Promote tolerance and peace of mind as general values in society, promote citizens' peace-making skills, and in general cultivate a life-centered culture of peace for the world.
- Concrete social actions to facilitate Korean reunification and peace.
- Facilitate the equal participation of women in the settlement of conflicts and disputes, and promote women's leadership in peace-making at home and abroad.
• Work in solidarity with international peace groups, exchanging information concerning peace and security and thus expanding international women's peace-making network
Contact Details: South Korea 4th Flr, Women's House for Peace 38-84 Changchungdong 1-Ga, Chung-Gu, Seoul South Korea Www.peacewomen.or.kr
Women Peacemakers
WPM is a volunteer organization working for peace and justice by training groups of grassroots people from different provinces and cities who are committed to nonviolence. WPM works in collaboration with a Working Group for Active Nonviolence in order to protect vulnerable land rights, fishing areas, and forest rights.
Contact Details: Cambodia c/o Catholic Relief Services, #14, Street 278
