Justice-making is the pathway to peace.
Peace Builders Academy is an ecumenical initiative to equip and connect peacemakers and/or people of faith with practical ways for building a culture of justice and peace locally and globally.
Peace Builders in Action
Learning, relationships, action, and support are connected. Start with the part of the work that brings you here.
Nonviolence Education
Equipping individuals and communities with tools of nonviolence through the Alternatives to Violence Project, trauma healing, MLK / structural change, Kids for Peace, and the Pledge of Nonviolence.
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See the places and relationships connected to Peace Builders Academy: Palestine / Middle East, Cambodia, Haiti, and the USA.
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Local and national events around Palestine hosted by groups such as Sabeel, FOSNA, Mennonites, and Quakers.
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Books by Rev. Dr. Joyce Penfield on peacebuilding, mediating conflict, and respecting diversity.
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Support Peace Builders Academy’s work for justice and peace.
Support the workExplore nonviolence educationViolence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.
Violence is immoral because it seeks to humiliate or annihilate the opponent rather than win his understanding.
Violence ends up defeating itself by creating bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
A world-wide, ecumenical fellowship
Partnering work connected to Peace Builders Academy reaches across places and communities. Explore the current regional map.
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I dream a world where love will bless the earth and peace its path adorn.Langston Hughes