Resources
Links to other Organizations
Faith Based Organizations:
Alban Institute – The Alban Institute is an independent center of learning and leadership development with a focus on congregations. Located in greater Washington, D.C., Alban is a not-for-profit, membership organization that develops and shares knowledge through consulting, publishing, research, and education programs.
Center for Pastoral Effectiveness – The Center for Pastoral Excellence offers an intentional and disciplined process of self-definition, vocational identity, and spiritual formation that will help sustain ministers in ministry. Pastors are provided opportunities to enhance, refresh and refine the skills that are necessary to maintain not only their ministries, but also their own well-being.
Congregational Resource Guide – hosted jointly by The Indianapolis Center for Congregations, and The Alban Institute, offers an annotated list of resources.
Duke Center for Reconciliation – Rooted in a Christian vision of God’s mission, the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School inspires, forms, and supports leaders, communities, and congregations to live as ambassadors of reconciliation.
Eastern Mennonite University – Conflict Transformation Center - The Center for Justice & Peacebuilding (CJP) was founded to further the personal and professional development of individuals as peacebuilders and to strengthen the peacebuilding capacities of the institutions they serve.
Lombard Mennonite Peace Center – As a non-profit ministry, LMPC works to encourage the nonviolent transformation of conflict in relationships in homes, workplaces, schools, churches, and throughout our world. Our programs and resources address ways of resolving conflicts and building healthier relationships in all of these various settings.
Lutheran Peace Fellowship – Lutheran Peace Fellowship (LPF) is a community of Lutherans across the U.S. and around the globe, responding to the gospel call to be peacemakers and justice seekers. Based in Seattle since 1994, LPF offers a wide range of expertise, support, and resources for youth and adults.
On Earth Peace – An agency of the Church of the Brethren empowering people to discern the things that make for peace.
Pastoral Leadership Academy – The Pastoral Leadership Academy is a ministry designed to provide resources and training for clergy and local churches. They feature retreat-style seminars focusing on managing conflict.
Pastor Peter Soli’s Website – Peter Soli is a minister ordained in the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He works in the areas of intentional interim ministry, conflict transformation, and congregation consulting and currently serves as assistant to the Bishop in the Western Iowa Synod.
Peacemaker Ministries – The mission of Peacemaker Ministries is to equip and assist Christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.In a more expanded version, our mission is to equip and assist Christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically by developing and delivering outstanding, life-changing resources, training, and services to a multitude of receptive churches throughout the world.
Plowpoint – Plowpoint is a ministry supporting the church by transforming leaders, transforming churches, and transforming the world through the power and promise of God’s Word.
Plowshares Institute – Plowshares Institute is a catalyst for social change that has been addressing social risks and conflicts for nearly 25 years.
Roots of Shalom – Roots of Shalom, LLC, is a unique partnership of experienced consultants who are committed to offering services to communities of faith and other organizations in turmoil or transition.
Conflict Resolution and Transformation Organizations:
American Bar Association - Section of Dispute Resolution – The Section of Dispute Resolution, established in 1993, is one of the ABA’s newest and fastest growing Sections with over 19,000 members already. The Section’s objectives include maintaining the ABA’s national leadership role in the dispute resolution field; providing information and technical assistance to members, legislators, government departments and the general public on all aspects of dispute resolution; studying existing methods for the prompt and effective resolution of disputes; adapting current legal procedures to accommodate court-annexed and court-directed dispute resolution processes; activating state and local bar involvement in dispute resolution, conducting public and professional education programs such as the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Courthouse Centers Project and conducting a program of research and development including programmatic and legislative models.
Association for Conflict Resolution - The Association for Conflict Resolution is a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution.
The Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation – a Berlin-based organization has articles of interest on topics ranging from interpersonal communication skills to multi-national conflicts.
Beyond Intractibility – a website hosted by the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium is an inexhaustible resource for those working in conflict transformation.
National Association of Community Mediation – NAFCM mission is to support the maintenance and growth of community-based mediation programs and processes, to present a compelling voice in appropriate policy-making, legislative, professional, and other arenas, and to encourage the development and sharing of resources for these efforts.
National Coalition Building Institute - The National Coalition Building Institute is an international non-profit leadership development network dedicated to the elimination of racism and other forms of oppression.
Rock Rose Institute – RockRose Institute, a 501(c)(3) public charity, is the primary organizer of Facing Violence: Justice, Religion and Conflict Resolution – World Forum 2007. RockRose supports, promotes and advances non-violent conflict resolution through education, improved communication and a deeper understanding of justice. It was founded in 2004 by four women attorneys.
Other:
The Compassionate Listening Project – Organization that teaches heart-based skills to create powerful cultures of peace in our families, communities, on the job, and in the world.
Living Justice Press – Founded in 2002, Living Justice Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose purpose is to publish and promote alternative works about social justice and community healing.
Public Conversations Project - a Boston-based organization devoted to providing resources for constructive dialogue.
The World Cafe – The World Cafe is a conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which we co-evolve our collective future.
Restorative Justice Organizations:
Comparative Restorative Justice – Mission statement: to examine restorative justice and reflect on it’s importance as well as how we benefit from it and the impact it makes on our society.
Restorative Resources - Restorative Resources is located in Santa Rosa, California. It is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit organization that provides restorative justice services to juvenile and adult offenders. We also provide training and support for restorative practices in schools, and help communities explore what it means to become a “restorative resilient community.”
Restorative Justice Online – Restorative Justice Online is a service of the Prison Fellowship International Centre for Justice and Reconciliation. Its purpose is to be an authoritative, credible, non-partisan resource of information on restorative justice. The Restorative Justice Online editors have developed several features they hope will help users navigate the site.
Blogs We Like:
Dr. Howard Zehr’s Restorative Justice Blog – is Professor of Restorative Justice at Eastern Mennonite University’s graduate Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and is the editor of The Little Books of Justice and Peacemaking series.
Restorative Justice and Circles – blog of Kris Miner, Coordinator of the St. Croix Valley Restorative Justice Center.
United Methodist Annual Conference Links:
Western Michigan Annual Conference (Conflict Transformation Skills for Congregations) – offers seminars focusing on merging self assessment learnings with peacemaking skills during congregational conflict.
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