Pacifist Posse

Here’s one that looks like it might be the big time!

e United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase peacebuilding capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide. The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by directly engaging in peacebuilding efforts around the globe.

I’m dropping it into the “organizations” links.

Break Down the Walls seems to be a group similar to—though perhaps a little more serious than—PP. It is a non-sectarian group that does not align itself politically and simply hopes to promote “World Understanding, Peace and Love” (caps. in the original). Here’s a sample from the “about” page:

“Break Down the Walls” is a project that is committed to building understanding and tolerance in the world. It intends to do this by calling on people who want to make a difference, to join us in inspiring discussions and sharing, so that we can all be inspired to embrace understanding and tolerance, and so that we can then inspire others one person at a time, and initiate a chain reaction of people inspiring more people.

I came upon Break Down the Walls because of one of the pages presents some data about the massive misappropriation of the world’s financial resources for military purposes. You can read it at the page called “World Peace.” I’ll add Break Down the Walls to the blogroll.