Peace and Social Justice

It is not hope that gets people engaged in struggle. It is being engaged in struggle that gives people hope.
--Cornel West and Roberto Unger, The Future of American Progressivism


Center for Partnership Studies

Code Pink

Global Issues Network (Empowers students to work internationally with their peers to develop solutions for global issues).

Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century: Stories from a New Generation of Activists. Welton, Neva and Wolf, Linda. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2001.

Imagining Ourselves: a Global Generation of Women (An anthology and online project featuring personal stories, paintings, photographs, essays and poems by hundreds of young women from more than 100 countries around the world).

MADRE (International Women's Human Rights organization)

Peace X Peace (A global network connecting women's circles)

The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life. Eisler, Riane. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2002.

The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Eisler, Riane. Los Angeles: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007.

United for Peace and Justice

Violence Policy Center (Provides policy analysis on gun violence)

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. Solomon, Norman. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

Weapons of Mass Deception (A film by Danny Schechter)

Women's Action for New Directions

The World We Want: New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change. Karoff, Peter. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2007.