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An article from the Sept-Oct 2006 edition of Interpreter Magazine that gives examples of how various United Methodist churches decided to respond to the war in Iraq.

This is a section of umc.org that explains the official United Methodist positions on peace and war related issues.

Provided by the Conflict Transformation Team of the Balitmore-Washington Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, this website highlights the biblical foundations of conflict transformation.

The United Methodist Women’s Peace with Justice page with descriptions of their Peace with Justice work.

Video from civil rights pioneer and Vanderbilt University Distinguished Visiting Professor James Lawson’s Fall 2007 class, “The Non-Violence Struggle.

A New World Outlook article from 2006 explores the peace (and United Methodist) roots of Mother’s Day.

The California-Pacific Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church is hosts a Peace Camp for Children and Youth.   The themes for the Summer of 2010 are Kids Learning to be Peacemakers (Ages 5 to 11) and Youth Practicing Peace Leadership (Ages 12 to 18). The program is made possible by The Peace Center of United University [...]

Resources from the General Commission on Religion and Race related to racial reconciliation. The list includes bible studies, DVDs, and other educational resources.

A website of Peace Theology maintained by Ted Grimsrud for the purpose of considering issues of war and peace, violence and nonviolence, from a Christian theological perspective . Grimsrud teaches theology and peace studies at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA.

Written by Jennifer Simmonds, the director of the Youth Ministry for the Good Samaritan United Methodist Church, Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle-school aged students better understand their anger so they can make healthy and successful choices and build strong relationships.