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These are other organizations and sites that provide complementary services and information.
- Aid Workers Network is an online community of relief and development practitioners for mutual support and to share practical advice based on experience.
- The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) is a coalition of diverse organizations (including ACT) working together to build sustainable peace and security worldwide. Members of AfP are directly engaged in applied conflict prevention and resolution. They provide negotiation and mediation services, train negotiators, facilitate communication to break down barriers, and help find solutions to the issues and pressures that otherwise drive groups and nations to achieve their objectives through violent force. Members also conduct research and provide evaluation and education. The role of AfP is to bring these organizations together for collaborative peacebuilding.
- Alliance for Resilient Communities (ARC) was formed by a group of international psychologists dedicated to supporting individuals, communities & societies transitioning into peaceful coexistence. ARC provides national and international psychosocial interventions and conflict transformation services in situations where disasters and violence have left communities vulnerable to traumatic stress.
- AlertNet is one of the premier sites for up-to-date news and resources on issues of development and conflict.
- American Council of Teachers of Russian
- American Sociological Association, Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section and Newsletter. The purpose of the Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict is to foster the development and application of sociological theories and methods for the understanding and study of dynamics of collective conflict and its prevention, conduct, and resolution. The Peace, War, and Social Conflict section of the American Sociological Association sends out, several times a year, a newsletter to section members. Its contents often include: substantive essays, including review essays of published work, commentary or opinion pieces, edited interviews with influential sociologists in the discipline and our subfields, and research notes and descriptions of work in progress. The section website includes links to past newsletters and extensive information about the section.
- Association for Conflict Resolution (a merged organization of AFM, CREnet and SPIDR) is a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution.
- ARD, Inc. is a privately owned firm that offers consulting services in the United States, developing and transition countries. Our main clients are the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the multilateral development banks.
- BALKANS PEACE PARK PROJECT (a UK Registered Charity) aims to facilitate the creation of a trans-national, cross-border park in the adjoining mountain areas of Kosovo/a, Montenegro and northern Albania: as a symbol of peace and cooperation and promote sustainable development in the region. We aim to spur governments to combine their proposed national parks into a truly international, cross-border protected area in one of the most spectacular and least known mountain ranges of Europe.
- Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC) is a local affiliate of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). BayNVC share's CNVC's vision of a world where everyone's needs can be met peacefully. BayNVC contributes to this vision by providing trainings in Nonviolent Communication to the public and to organizations across the United States.
- Bluehelmet.com provides news, articles, forums, interviews, and more pertaining to all United Nations peacekeeping operations. Members can comment on UN news, events, and actions.
- BOND (British Overseas NGOs for Development) is the UK's broadest network of voluntary organisations working in international development. Founded in June 1993, BOND aims to improve the UK's contribution to international development by promoting the exchange of experience, ideas and information.
- BRAC Bangladesh and Afganistan (formerly known as Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), was established as a relief and rehabilitation organisation in 1972. BRAC is now also implementing a program for Integrated Development in Afghanistan in the field of education, health and income generation.
- Camp Dogwood Summer Academy
- Canada's Human Security site outlines Canada's human security agenda and includes information on conflict prevention, governance and accountability, protection of civilians, peace support operations and public safety.
- Catholic Relief Services is a development and relief organization founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged outside the country. Peacebuilding is a major focus.
- Center for Economic Research (CER) is a leading think tank in Uzbekistan, with a research agenda includes a wide pange of development issues.
- Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) represents an International network of trainers and consultants, established in 2003. Includes world-wide recognized experts from Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and South Africa, with experience in battling for democracy in their own countries, and involved in knowledge transferring to 24 different groups in the world. Offers free downloadable publications. http://www.canvasopedia.org/index.htm
- Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Studies (CERDH) is a human rights NGO for the promotion and protection of human rights and democracy in DRCongo. Based in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad The CIS is a multi-faceted organization, with many programs supporting education, organizing, and social justice. We are looking for people committed to solidarity and social justice to participate in our programs.
- The Civic Education Project (CEP) is an international non-profit dedicated to assisting democratic reform by supporting higher education in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. It pursues these goals through its teaching fellowships.
- Cluj Center for Policy Analysis The Cluj Center for Policy Analysis is an independent, non-affiliated research institution focusing on policy monitoring, analysis, and consultancy in European transitional democracies, includes an on-going call for papers addressed to policy makers, analyst, scholars, and students.
- Coexistence Initiative - a network organization that advances coexistence education, practice and knowledge worldwide. Also has publications and a database of practitioners worldwide.
- Conflict Research Consortium is a multidisciplinary program of research, teaching, and application, focused on finding more constructive ways of addressing difficult, long-term, and intractable conflicts, and getting that information to the people involved in these conflicts so that they can approach them in a more constructive way.
- Creative Minds International Academy is dedicated to enriching Nigeria's educational system by emphasizing a blend of values education, social and scientific research and student project based learning. International educators and teachers are invited to share practical experiences with our staff and students on contemporary issues ranging from career prospects, social responsibility, community development and international relations, among others. By so doing, we are gradually working towards the integration of social, creative and intellectual development within the context of supportive human relationships. More than just transferring to our students, the ability to learn and acquire skills necessary for healthy competition and survival in an increasingly complex world, we have a special commitment to character development, which we hold as an indispensable prerequisite for the attainment and enjoyment of freedom, which leads to lasting human happiness. Throughout our curriculum our students are provided with a variety of opportunities to discover, reflect and act on positive human values, and to view themselves as responsible members of both the local and global community. We empower our students to develop the critical thinking processes necessary to investigate and interrelate important life issues that are inherent to their immediate surroundings and essential to the sustainability of human kind.
- Culturosity is a site dedicated to building understanding through improved cultural relations. Culturosity shows people how to build intercultural learning opportunities into their daily lives. Contains a number of free resources, guides, and articles.
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