Welcome to the National Peace Foundation! Celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2007, the National Peace Foundation is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) dedicated to building foundations for peace around the world. We are committed to creating alternatives to war and violence through empowering and supporting the efforts of a wide network of citizen peacebuilders in the United States and abroad. Our programs help people and their leaders develop citizen networks, advance peace education, and promote democratic values through international exchanges.
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Spring call for support: A Letter from Sarah
Harder, National
Peace Foundation
President
"With NPF celebrating one of the most active years in its quarter-century history, we continue to build bridges with our international partners. As a longtime member of the National Peace Foundation, I constantly find myself looking at those who will carry the torch of peace building for our children and grandchildren. Therefore, I am asking YOU to help inspire our next generation of citizen peace builders."
Click here to read the full letter
News Articles
Quake aid gives radical Islam a stage
Militant groups have become a vital part of Pakistan's quake relief, raising concerns that extremism will spread.
By David Montero | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN - The long-bearded doctor won't reveal his name...
News Item · Christian Science Monitor · Mar 10, 2006
War on terror needs more humanitarian efforts
From the March 02, 2006 edition
By Kenneth Ballen
WASHINGTON - It is time we heed what America 's military leaders are telling us about the war on terror. Pentagon officials involved in writing the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently released...
News Item · The Christian Science Monitor · Mar 2, 2006
Humanitarian Relief Sustains Change in Muslim PublicOpinion
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new poll released today by Terror Free Tomorrow demonstrates that one year after the tsunami struck Indonesia, the dramatic increase in Indonesian support for the United States and against Bin Laden has continued. American humanitarian aid to...
News Item · Ken Ballen of the Terror Free Tomorrow · Feb 22, 2006
Viewpoint: Interfaith dialogue in Israel-Palestine
February 1, 2006 WASHINGTON DC -- For the last two decades scholars and practitioners of peace have promoted the hypothesis that religions and religious actors can be sources of peace and pluralism, and not only sources of war, violence and conflict. Others are less sure...
News Item · MIDDLE EAST TIMES- Professor Mohammed Abu-Nimer · Feb 1, 2006
Photo Albums
Russian Delegates in influenza pandemic planning meeting with North Carolina Public Health officials
Photo Album · Mar 13, 2007
Russian Civic Network Program
Russian Deligations Visit With the NPF and Other Host Institutions in the US
Photo Album · Dec 11, 2006
Open World Program
Photo Album · Nov 30, 2005