Nonviolent Peaceforce, the unarmed professional peace service that is carrying forward the dream of Gandhi’s Shanti Sena (’Peace Army) worldwide, is now recruiting for its interventionary work in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.  To download the application, go to this link.

The coalition forming in Europe under the banner “The Strength of Nonviolence” is  comprised of a group of women and men who don’t want to remain passive in the face of blatant advocacy of violence by those in positions of power (totalitarianism of corporate capitalism) and  threaten the present and future of all. They believe that change is possible, but all the positive people must converge in common actions, maintaining the differences that enrich the whole. They write: “We have found inspiration in the great ideals and guides of nonviolence, examples that should be studied, expanded and put into practice. With this spirit in 2007 we have set in motion the campaign Europe for peace, for a Europe free from nuclear weapons and today we launch this on-line petition against the installation of a U.S. radar base in Czech Republic, a dangerous project that has already increased the international tensions and unleashed a new arms race.” See the powerful short video they made during Barack Obama’s recent visit to Prague.

Pace e Bene’s vision is dignity, justice, and peace for all. Their mission is to foster a just and peaceful world through nonviolent education, community-building, and action. Formed by a small group of Franciscans and others in 1989, Pace e Bene is a growing community representing a diversity of spiritual traditions and cultural backgrounds that networks with nonviolence practitioners in many parts of the world. You can visit Pace e Bene’s website here.

Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict – away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. They work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies’ capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities. Find out more about Search for Common Ground here.

CharityFocus is a radical inspiring organization which is challenging the current prevailing paradigm of “having more”. Its conception was started by this idea: “Let’s serve without any strings attached, just for the sake of giving.” When they started in 1999, their work was to empower nonprofits with web-based technological solutions but that work soon expanded into effectively organizing and motivating hundreds of inspired volunteers. By 2003, they were also providing web-services ranging from a portal to create your own fundraising website to a banner-ad service that promotes inspiring messages to a viral acts-of-kindness game. In 2006, they launched a gift-economy print magazine. Today, the work of CharityFocus regularly touches thousands of lives in a myriad of different ways. From its very inception, though, the focus of CharityFocus has been on the inner change that comes when people take the opportunity to act selflessly. No matter how many non-profits are served and how much excellent work is performed, their emphasis will always be on the volunteer experience. CharityFocus strives to be an incubator of compassionate action by enabling everyday heroes — people just like you and us — with the opportunity to serve. Visit the revolutionary website of CharityFocus here.