Adventist Peace Fellowship
Monday, September 06, 2010

Peace Education

 

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Adventists and the Military. Resources on conscientious objection and military service compiled by North American Religious Liberty Association – West.

Celebrating Peace! Educational resources for enriching the lives of children through pursuit of peace for all.

Center on Conscience and War Its mission is to extend and defend the rights of conscientious objectors to war and violence.

Central Committee for Conscientious Objection Supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war. Published The Objector, a magazine of conscience and resistance.

Conscientious Objection. Mennonite Central Committee web page; includes news and resources on counterrecruitment and war taxes.

I Will Not Kill Campaign coordinated by the Fellowship of Reconciliation to educated high school and college age youth about military service and conscientious objection.

Peace Games Empowers students to create their own safe classrooms and communities by forming partnerships with elementary schools, families, adults and young adult volunteers.

Peacemaking Resources on the Internet. Wide-ranging and through listing of web sites concerned with peacemaking.

Glen Stassen web page. Valuable materials on the “just peacemaking” model, for which Stassen has been the leading voice.

Youth4Peace.org. Youth and militarism web page of the American Friends Service Committee

McCarthy, Colman. I’d Rather Teach Peace (Orbis Books, 2002).

Stassen, Glen H. Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace (Westminster/Knox Press, 1992). Scripturally-based model for peacemaking with recent examples of implementation.

Stassen, Glen H., ed. Just Peacemaking:Ten Practices for Abolishing War (Pilgrim Press, 2004). New essays on the application of just peacemaking theory

 

DVD/CD/Film

Before You Enlist!: The Real Deal on Joining the Military. A 15-minute video production  providing information on military enlistment, countering the seductive and at times deceptive recruiting practices of the U.S. military.

Encounter Point The award-winning documentary film portrays grassroots movements that are planting signposts of reconciliation amidst the vengeance and violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Thermostat DVD and study guide for youth on war, peace, and Christian conscience.

 

Games

A Force More Powerful: A game of nonviolent strategy.

PeaceMaker: a video game to promote peace developed at Carnegie-Mellon University; features a simulation of the Israeli-Palestininan conflict