Web-based resources for nonviolence activists
(Under construction by H. Cobban (with help from friends); last updated: May 28, 2007. Please email the webmaster with suggested additions or revisions.)
Be The Change
The Be The Change Movement was inspired by the words and actions of Mohandas (Mahatma) K. Gandhi “we must be the change we wish to see in the world.” It consists of like-minded individuals linked by a common desire to make a positive change in the world around them. BTC works primarily with youth in North America. You can read their recent newsletters here.
Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal Gandhi Book Centre
A Gandhian Charitable Trust dedicated to propagating the teachings of Gandhi, organizing nonviolent actions, and promoting village products. The site has an excellent gallery of photos of Gandhi and portals to fulltext versions of some writings on nonviolence by Gandhi and Dr. M.L. King, Jr.
Hague Appeal for Peace
An international network of organizations and individuals dedicated to the abolition of war and making peace a human right. HAP has placed a particular focus on preparing peace-education materials for global use . Through this page on their website you can find peace curricula in Albanian, Arabic, English, French, and Russian. Through this page you can find peace-ed lessons produced by educators from Brazil, Peru, West Africa, Argentina, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, and the USA.
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Based in Memphis, Tennessee and run by M.K. Gandhi's grandson Arun Gandhi, this institute has a fairly informative website. In the "Library" section check in particular the portal to items on "Nonviolence".
Nonviolence.org
A good, blog-based website. The "Resources" listed in the left sidebar, especially the "Nonviolence links" button, will take you to some useful background materials.
Nonviolence International
A small organization founded by Palestinian activist Mubarak Awad, NVI has worked in several different cultural contexts around the world. Their website carries a lengthy, annotated bibliography of nonviolence and an annotated bibliography on Peace and Islam
NVDA Toolbox
That stands for "nonviolent direct action." This site is published out of Manchester, England, and has some good, easy-to-use resources on building, using, and maintaining nonviolence organizations, available here.
Paul Hubers' Nonviolence 101
This Minnesota-based activist provides an excellent portal page with links to many other great resources.
Peace News
Periodical that's published in the UK anywhere between six and ten times per year. On their website you can find very helpful content from both current and past issues of the mag, including a collection of twelve articles on nonviolent action in Israel and Palestine, here . Explore the site using a standard Google site-search for other great articles on many topics.
Per Herngren
This Swedish nonviolence activist and organizer has made the full text of his good, informative book Path of resistance available in both English and Swedish. He also has a good short collection of classic texts on nonviolence, and other material on his site available in Swedish, Spanish, Polish, and Arabic (check the left sidebar of his main page.)
Training for Change
An excellent source for web-based training resources of all kinds. See especially their fabulous Tools page and their huge Publications page, which includes many fulltext written materials in English, a number in Spanish, and some audio materials. These people, based in Philadelphia and working worldwide in many different cultural contexts are very intentional about building strong learning communities that act through (and propagate) the values of strategic nonviolence.
Turning the Tide
A London-based nonviolence training project run by the British Quakers. They run regular training workshops,, network with other nonviolence activists around the world, especially in South Asia, and have some very helpful basic training/informational materials available though this page on their website.
War Resisters International
WRI organizes their main website as a Wiki. One of their projects is the preparation of an online handbook on nonviolence, which is well underway and has some good resources in it already.
A Season for Nonviolence
The Gandhi Project
International Crisis Group
Research and advocacy on areas of conflict worldwide.
Peace Please
Peace Please delivers products and messages that promote peace and peaceful coexistence. Donations from the proceeds of Peace Please product sales are given to organizations committed to the non-violent promotion of peace and peaceful coexistence.
Palestinan- Israeli
Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum
Includes a list of links over 120 Peace NGO's Organizations)
Face 2 Face
A unique public art peace project, Face 2 Face came into being to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides.
Palestine-Israel Journal
Avaaz.org The World in Action
HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual
Hello, Peace
A project based on an automated telephone system that lets any Israeli or Palestinian simply pick up their phone at no charge and talk with someone on "the other side" about peace.
The Israeli Reggae Site
International Solidarity Movement
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Middle East Activist
Includes a section on "Getting Involved:A Guide to Social and Political Activism"