Nonviolence Resources on the Web
Nonviolence Resources on the
Web
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These are
just some links of organisations and groups which would appear in the
pages of Nonviolent News (and not including
Northern/Southern links for a group mentioned in only one part of the
island). Check through Nonviolent News itself for others, such as
Pax Christi, which would not have websites.
(INNATE is not responsible for the content of these external links.) Afri, Action from Ireland , is a justice and peace organisation working from a Dublin base. www.afri.buz.orgAmnesty International is big in Ireland. www.amnesty.ieThe big one for conflict research in Ireland is the CAIN (Conflict Archive on the InterNet) website; this has a huge amount of material relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland http://cain.ulst.ac.ukThe Chernobyl Children’s Project is a big Cork-based project which provides support and relief to people affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster; unlike some others it takes an anti-nuclear stand and tries to provide education on the issue. www.chernobyl-ireland.comCommunity Exchange is a Dublin-based community, social and political movement e-mail and web information service. It includes a directory on Irish NGOs. www.activelink.ie/ceThe de Borda Institute does work in promoting consensus decision-making methodologies/voting systems (there’ll be a workshop at the Triennial) www.deborda.orgThe Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) is the major Northern Ireland civil liberties organisation. www.caj.org.ukCommunity Dialogue tries to facilitate discussion of relevant issues at a community level in Northern Ireland – it produces very useful summaries of issues (what unionists feel, what nationalists feel etc). www.commdial.orgCorrymeela is a Christian-based organisation which is a major reconciliation-oriented centre and provider in the North. www.corrymeela.org.ukDemocratic Dialogue is a ways forward for Northern Ireland and its issues think-tank. www.democraticdialogue.orgEcological sustainability is the aim of FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability. www.feasta.orgFriends of the Earth Ireland (Earthwatch ) have a website but their printed magazine, Earthwatch, is currently much better than the web (in fact it wins the INNATE prize for best political/campaigning magazine in Ireland). www.iol.ie/~foeeireGlencree Reconciliation Centre in County Wicklow has a major focus on Northern Ireland but also on issues in the Republic; www.glencree-cfr.ieINCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity in Derry, looks at post conflict issues, governance and diversity, and research methodologies in violent societies. www.incore.ulst.ac.ukThe Irish Council for Civil Liberties is the major civil liberties related body in the Republic. www.iccl.ieKilcranny House is a small educational residential centre near Coleraine which focuses on peace, nonviolence and ecological issues. www.kilcrannyhouse.orgThe Mediation Network in Northern Ireland is a major developer in the mediation and related fields in Northern Ireland. www.mediationnorthernireland.orgThe Peace People are a Northern group focused on peace and nonviolence which peaked at its start in the 1970s but still going. www.peacepeople.comSolidarity with half way around the world is alive and well at West Papua Action. www.westpapuaaction.orgInternationally , INNATE has informal links with other structures but is formally associated or affiliated with two, respectively faith-based and secular nonviolence internationals;International Fellowship of Reconciliation which has its headquarters in Alkmaar, the Netherlands; www.ifor.organd War Resisters’ International , which has its headquarters in London; www.wri-irg.orgSee also ‘Peace and conflict research projects in Ireland’, also listed under Links on this website. |
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