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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has a Conflict Studies and Dispute Resolution program in which students can receive a certificate or masters degree either residentially or online.  Their mission is to create positive peace and humanitarian human values in civil societies by transforming conflict into constructive nonviolent action.

 

www.acrnet.org

The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) is a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution. ACR represents and serves a diverse national and international audience that includes more than 6,000 mediators, arbitrators, facilitators, educators, and others involved in the field of conflict resolution and collaborative decision-making. Anyone interested in the field of conflict resolution is welcome to join.

 

www.healthychurch.org

The mission of the Center for Congregational Health in Winston-Salem is to assist congregations in becoming healthier communities of faith. The Center provides consultants and trained leaders to assist congregations in meeting ongoing challenges and opportunities in a changing world. The Center strives to serve by: 1) guiding – helping congregations and their leaders know what to do, 2) healing – helping congregations and leaders through conflict that may accompany change, and 3) growing—helping congregations and leaders prepare for and experience growth in their ministries.

 

www.alban.org

The Alban Institute is an independent center of learning and leadership development with a focus on congregations. Located in greater Washington, D.C., Alban is a not-for-profit, membership organization that develops and shares knowledge through consulting, publishing, research, and education programs.

 

www.forusa.org

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) envisions a world of justice, peace, and freedom. It is a revolutionary vision of a beloved community where differences are respected, conflicts are addressed nonviolently, oppressive structures are dismantled, and where people live in harmony with the earth, nurtured by diverse spiritual traditions that foster compassion, solidarity, and reconciliation. FOR seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. As a part of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), which has affiliates in over 40 countries, they are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a trans- forming way of life and as a means of radical change.

 

www.safeyouth.gov

Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere (STRYVE) is a national initiative, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which takes a public health approach to preventing youth violence before it starts. To support this effort, STRYVE Online provides communities with the knowledge and resources to be successful in preventing youth violence.

 

www.cpt.org

Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) arose from a call in 1984 for Christians to devote the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war. Enlisting the whole church in an organized, nonviolent alternative to war, today CPT places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers. CPT embraces the vision of unarmed intervention waged by committed peacemakers ready to risk injury and death in bold attempts to transform lethal conflict through the nonviolent power of God’s truth and love. Initiated by Mennonites, Brethren, and Quakers with broad ecumenical participation, CPT’s ministry of Biblically-based and spiritually-centered peacemaking emphasizes creative public witness, nonviolent direct action, and protection of human rights.

 

www.cartercenter.org/peace/conflict_resolution/index.html

War and civil strife continue to be the most significant impediments to sustainable development and basic human rights. Devastation from such conflicts has impoverished countries in every major region, in many cases wiping out the achievements of decades of development. The Conflict Resolution Program of the Carter Center focuses on preventing, resolving, and ending armed conflict. Other Carter Center programs work on post-conflict peacebuilding. The program monitors many of the world's armed conflicts to better understand their histories, the primary actors involved, disputed issues, and efforts being made to resolve them.