2. Peace and U.S. Foreign Policy Organizations

2.1. Coalitions of Peace Groups
2.2. General Peace Groups
2.3. Veterans Peace Groups
2.4. Women’s Peace Groups
2.5. Student Peace Groups
2.6. Nuclear Weapons-Focused Groups
2.7. Peace Building Groups
2.8. Conscientious Objection to War Groups
2.9. Religious Peace Groups
2.10. Nonviolent Peacemaker Groups
2.11. Nonviolent Action Policy Groups
2.12. Other Specialized Peace Groups
2.13. Peace Policy Institutes

2.1. Coalitions of Peace Groups

Win Without War (WWW): A coalition of national organizations representing broad constituencies that aim to keep America safe by advocating that international cooperation and enforceable international law provide the greatest security for the United States and the world.
United for Peace and Justice (UPJ): A coalition of more than 1300 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to oppose the US government’s policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.

2.2. General Peace Groups

Peace Action: Through national and grassroots citizen action, works to redirect federal spending from military to human needs, abolish nuclear weapons, end the international arms trade, and foster the peaceful resolution of conflicts. Formerly, Sane-Freeze.
War Resisters League (WRL): Uses peaceful means to try to create a society that is peaceful, democratic, and free of economic, racial, and sexual oppression — seeking not only to eliminate war, but the causes of war.
Council for a Livable World (CLW): Provides U.S. Senators with technical and scientific information that helps them make intelligent decisions about nuclear arms control, strategic and conventional weapons, the military budget, and United Nations peacekeeping.
Just Foreign Policy: An independent and non-partisan mass membership organization dedicated to achieving a U.S. foreign policy based on cooperation, law, and diplomacy.

2.3. Veterans Peace Groups

Common Defense: Progressive veterans standing up for our communities against the rising tide of racism, hate, and violence.
About Face: Veterans Against the War: Post-9/11 service members and veterans organizing to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, and values in communities across the country. Formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Veterans for Peace (VFP): Drawing on their personal experiences and perspectives gained as veterans, they work to raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war — and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW): Committed to the struggle for peace and for social and economic justice for all people.
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO): An organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones in the military.

2.4. Women’s Peace Groups

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF): Works through peaceful means to achieve world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.
Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND): Works to empower women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism, and redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs.

2.5. Student Peace Groups

Student Pugwash USA (SPUSA): Encourages young people to probe the reasons for scientific advancement and the implications of technology on citizens’ everyday lives — including issues such as international conflict, environmental protection, genetics research, and civil rights.

2.6. Nuclear Weapons-Focused Groups

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA): A network of 34 local, regional, and national peace and environmental groups representing the concerns of communities in the shadows of the U.S. nuclear weapons sites and radioactive waste dumps — working on health, cleaning up and shutting down polluting, obsolete, and unsafe facilities, and stopping construction of many new bomb production plants.
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: Initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, and to inspire and empower a new generation of peace leaders.
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI): Works to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and is co-chaired by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn.
Abolition 2000: An international global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework.
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Seeks the reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons as a significant tool of U.S. national security policy.
Arms Control Association (ACA): Provides policy-makers, the press, and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis, and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today (ACT).
Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP): Uses national and international law to promote peace and disarmament, providing a vital link between policy makers, legal scholars, and activists.
Institute For Science and International Security (ISIS): Dedicated to informing the public about science and policy issues affecting international security and especially stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, bringing about greater transparency of nuclear activities worldwide, and achieving deep reductions in nuclear arsenals.

2.7. Peace Building Groups

Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA): Promotes the academic fields of peace and justice studies within universities, colleges, and K-12 grade levels.
Peaceful Tomorrows: An organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who have united to turn their grief into action for peace by developing and advocating nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice and thereby break the cycles of violence engendered by war and terrorism throughout the world.
The Peace Alliance: Advocates for legislation that supports a culture of peace and works to create a United States Department of Peace.
Alliance for Peacebuilding: A coalition of organizations that seek to use communication, negotiation, and mediation instead of belligerence and violence to resolve conflicts.
Citizens for Global Solutions: Promotes closer American cooperation with and support for international institutions capable of responding to the threats and challenges of the 21st century; specifically works to promote the International Criminal Court and to reform United Nations peace operations. Formerly, the World Federalist Association.
United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA): Dedicated to educating, inspiring, and mobilizing Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations, strengthening the United Nations system, promoting constructive United States leadership in that system, and achievement of the goals of the UN Charter.
Seeds of Peace: Empowers young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence.
Search for Common Ground: Works to transform the way the world deals with conflict — away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving.
Food Not Bombs (FNB): Recovers food that would have been discarded and shares it as a way of protesting war and poverty.

2.8. Conscientious Objection to War Groups

Center on Conscience and War (CCW): Works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors to war and violence.
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD): Challenges militarism, the institution of the military, its effect on society, its budget, its role abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism, and homophobia that are inherent in the armed forces and Selective Service System.
National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF): Advocates for U.S. federal legislation enabling conscientious objectors to war to have their federal income taxes directed to a special fund which could be used for non-military purposes only.

2. Peace and U.S. Foreign Policy Organizations

2.1. Coalitions of Peace Groups

2.2. General Peace Groups

2.3. Veterans Peace Groups

2.4. Women’s Peace Groups

2.5. Student Peace Groups

2.6. Nuclear Weapons-Focused Groups

2.7. Peace Building Groups

2.8. Conscientious Objection to War Groups

2.9. Religious Peace Groups

2.10. Nonviolent Peacemaker Groups

2.11. Nonviolent Action Policy Groups

2.12. Other Specialized Peace Groups

2.13. Peace Policy Institutes