Friends & Partners

INTERFAITH COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR PEACE   www.icujp.org
ICUJP was founded in Los Angeles after 9.11 to support the work of Faith leaders from Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish and other spiritual faiths and traditions who say "Religious Communities Must Stop Blessing War and Violence..."


PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS    www.parliamentofreligions.org
First held in Chicago in 1893, the Parliament of the World’s Religions brings together the world’s religious and spiritual communities, their leaders and their followers to a gathering where peace, diversity and sustainability are discussed and explored in the context of interreligious understanding and cooperation.


ALL BURMA MONKS ALLIANCE    www.allburmamonksalliance.org
A religious and social service provider organization staffed by and composed of Burmese Buddhist monks from the 2007 Saffron Revolution; they are actively supporting and providing assistance to refugee monks inside and outside of Burma.


UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE   www.uri.org
United Religions Initiative (URI) was founded in 2000 by an extraordinary global community committed to promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation and to ending religiously motivated violence. Today the URI includes thousands of members in over 65 countries.


LOS ANGELES FOOD BANK    www.lafightshunger.org
The Foodbank provides food for nearly 900 member agency sites including abused and abandoned children homes, battered women shelters, senior centers, local food pantries, soup kitchens, AIDS hospices and more. In 2008 they distributed 39 million pounds of food for the hungry.

INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE    www.ifyc.org
IFYC is the core of the larger movement of people in the world who are promoting religious pluralism. Their role is to provide resources, network, and catalyze the corps of people who are actively engaged in this work in their communities, and provide a platform to showcase their work to the
rest of the world.

ALLIANCE FOR A NEW HUMANITY    www.itakethevow.com
The Alliance recognizes at the core of its vision the unity of all life, and a wholehearted adherence to the noblest aspirations of humankind, as proclaimed in all spiritual and humanist traditions that call for compassion and the celebration of life.


NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE     www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
A nonpartisan unarmed peacekeeping force composed of trained civilians from around the world, Nonviolent Peaceforce brings together over 60 Member Organisations from five continents and over 100 supporting organisations.


PEACE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL    www.peacebuildersintl.com
Developed, tested refined and proven repeatedly in several different countries, in hundreds of communities and thousands of schools, PeaceBuilders International can help your school and your community meet its goals of becoming a safer and healthier environment.


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF PEACE    www.thepeacealliance.org
Participate in an historic citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace. There is currently a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives (HR 808). This landmark measure will augment our current problem-solving options, providing practical, nonviolent solutions to the problems of domestic and international conflict.


THE EARTH CHARTER    www.earthcharter.org
We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family...