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About: GlobalGiving.co.uk enables you to support well-vetted, grassroots projects all over the world. Continuer la lecture de « globalgiving.co.uk »

at the Canadian Mennonite University – Linked with Peace and Justice Studies Association PJSA.

Admission criteria:

• Facility in spoken and written English;
• A secondary-school diploma and at least two years of university or equivalent work experience in peacebuilding, restorative justice, relief and development, trauma recovery, human rights, or other closely related fields.

… (full text admission).

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Address: Canadian School of Peacebuilding, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3P 2N2, CANADA;
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Course requirements & Materials: Continuer la lecture de « Canadian School of Peacebuilding CSOP »

Our mission: PJSA works to create a just and peaceful world through:

• The promotion of peace studies within universities, colleges and K-12 grade levels
• The forging of alliances among educators, students, activists, and other peace practitioners in order to enhance each other’s work on peace, conflict and non-violence
• The creation and nurturing of alternatives to structures of inequality and injustice, war and violence through education, research and action.

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New partnership with Canadian School of Peacebuilding CSOP;
Address: Peace & Justice Studies Association, Prescott College, 220 Grove Ave., Prescott, AZ 86301, USA;
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About / who we are:  Continuer la lecture de « Peace and Justice Studies Association PJSA »

in french: Médecins pour la Survie Mondiale

• Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), a charitable organization formed in 1980, is the Canadian affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which is the only international medical organization dedicated to preventing nuclear war.
• PGS recognizes that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security … (full text About /Mission).

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Abolish; Prevention; Non-Violence; Social Justice; Sustainable World;Resources; Join; Newsletter;
Address: PGS Headquarters, 208-145 Spruce Street, Ottawa, ON K1R 6P1, Canada;
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Our work: PGS recognizes that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security. Continuer la lecture de « Physicians for Global Survival PGS »

Project Ploughshares is an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches established in 1976 to implement the churches’ call to be peacemakers and to work for a world in which justice will flourish and peace abound. The mandate given to Project Ploughshares is to work with churches and related organizations, as well as governments and non-governmental organizations, in Canada and abroad, to identify, develop, and advance approaches that build peace and prevent war, and promote the peaceful resolution of political conflict … (full text Homepage).

What we do; Abolish; Control; Reduce; Build; Support; Library; E-newsletter;
Address: Project Ploughshares, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo ON N2L 6C2, UK;
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Who we are: A Commitment to Building Peace and Preventing War. Continuer la lecture de « Project Ploughshares »

a top global think thank

SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. (Homepage).

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Address: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Signalistgatan 9, SE-169 70 Solna, Sweden;
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About: SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Continuer la lecture de « Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI »

more than 50 years of working for peace and security

The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to provide scholarly insights into the prevention and resolution of armed conflict, including nuclear abolition and nuclear and conventional disarmament, control of the arms trade, the peaceful resolution of ethnic and other disputes within and among states, and to contribute to the solutions for socioeconomic and environmental threats to human security.
Nuclear disarmament is and has always been of central importance to Pugwash.  Canadian Pugwash participates annually in the international conference, and on the Pugwash Council. (Nuclear Disarmament).

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Address: Canadian Pugwash Group, ATTN: Adele Buckley, 6 Tepee Court, Toronto, ON, M2J 3A9, Canada;
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About: We are the national affiliate of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international organization, awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, together with its founder Sir Joseph Rotblat.  Continuer la lecture de « Canadian Pugwash Group CPG »

peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding (Albert Einstein).

Welcome: Science for Peace is a Canadian organization consisting of natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, scholars in the humanities and people from the wider community. We seek to understand and act against the forces that make for militarism, environmental destruction, and social injustice here and abroad. Membership in Science for Peace offers one avenue to influence wider society about these crucial problems … (full text Homepage).

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Address: Science for Peace.ca, A306 University College, 15 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H7, Canada;
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What we do: Conferences, forums, and seminars … Working Groups and Projects, Day to day research, information dissemination and public outreach of Science for Peace occurs through its Working Groups and through specific Projects. Continuer la lecture de « Science for Peace.ca »

prepared to challenge U.S. militarism in the new Millenium

CITIZEN SOLDIER’s strategy for change works! But to accomplish our goals, we need your help. Individual givers provide 85% of our budget; your tax-deductible contribution makes a difference.

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Resources: how help; pdf-Broschure; Working Class War; Ongoing work; Free downloads;
Address: Citizen Soldier, 267 Fifth Ave., #901, New York N Y 10016, USA;
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Depleted Uranium …
1.Why did the US military develop shells armed with depleted uranium (DU) and did they fully investigate potential health hazards from these weapons? Continuer la lecture de « Citizen Soldier »

Trooper – Official Trailer, 2.47 min.: Murphy OShea, an Iraq Veteran, has a hard time re-adjusting to society upon his return from a long tour. His world crumbles when he discovers his father, Bill, a Vietnam Veteran, is dying. Trooper is a story of a father and son, two veterans from two very different Wars, helping each other to get through each day, and heal the wounds of War …  (full text on YouTube).

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Donate, to keep help veterans, by paypal.com;
Address: National Gulf War Resource Center, Inc., 2611 SW 17th Street, Topeka, KS 66604, USA;
Contact. Phone: 785-221-0162, Toll free 866-531-7183, Fax:785-235-6531, e-mail for President: James A. Bunker.

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… The National Gulf War Resource Center asks that all Veterans and their families take the time to view scenes from Producer/Director Christopher Martini’s upcoming feature film, « Trooper ». This landmark film boldly addresses the human cost of war on our Veterans and their families through a compelling storyline that follows a soldier’s return from Iraq, only to discover that both he and his father, a Vietnam Veteran, face severe health problems resulting from their service in two very different wars.  Continuer la lecture de « The National Gulf War Resource Center NGWRC »