Peacemaking

In June 2006, UUA's General Assembly voted to study and act on the issue of Peacemaking for four years, as part of the the Congregational Study Action Issue process. The description of the issue that was voted on is at http://www.uua.org/csai. In 2009 the results of the study will lead to a proposal for a Statement of Conscience on the issue.

A wealth of resources on the issue are available at http://www.uua.org/peacemaking

Peacemaking-network is the UUA email forum for this SAI.

In the Spring of 2007, the Washington Office For Advocacy hired Alex Winnett to be the Program Associate for Peacemaking. His two year long position will be to help congregations, individuals and affiliates navigate the CSAI on Peacemaking.

Use this page to keep track of what congregations are active, what successes and failures can be reported, etc.

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Organizations

• Center on Conscience & War - The Center is committed to supporting all those who question participation in war, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, documented or undocumented immigrants--or citizens in other countries.
• Center for Nonviolent Communication - the work of Marshall Rosenberg and others, also known as "Compassionate Communication". Helps at all levels of peacemaking, from personal, to relationship, to congregational, to community, to politics, to the world....
• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors - CCCO supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.
• Fellowship of Reconciliation - FOR seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally. UU John Haynes Holmes was one of the founders.
• War Resisters League - The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war. UU John Haynes Holmes was one of the founders.

Web Sites

• UUA Peacemaking CSAI Web Page

• Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography Antiwar and Peace Activists

Articles

• Prophetic Nonviolence Paul Rasor, UUWORLD, Spring 2008,

Speakers and Workshops

• The Art and Ethics of Strategic Peacebuilding Sharon Welch, Meadville Lombard course Offering

Congregational Action

Congregational Study Groups

• Small Group Ministry materials and ideas

Sermons and Service Ideas

• Pacifist Doves and Humanitarian Hawks: Should UUs Become Activist Pacifists? Prof. Howard Tolley.

• "Is Peace Our Way?" Reverend Paige Getty

Peace Pages On Congregational Web Sites

• The Peace Umbrella UU Church of Palo Alto, CA
• Identification of Church as a Peace Site The UU Community Church of Santa Monica, CA
• Columbine Peace Labyrinth Columbine UU Church, Littleton, CO
• Task Force on a Just Peace UU Church of Bloomington, IN
• A Place For Peace UU Congregation of Somerset Hills, NJ
• Peacemaking Pledge Campaign St. John’s UU, Cincinnati, OH