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
First step toward peace is for more to demand it
Eau Claire, WI Leader-Telegram, Sunday, June 29, 2008, Page 7F
First step toward peace is for more to demand it
By Don Huebscher
One of the greatest impediments to that elusive goal of "world peace" is the inability to break the...
News Item · National Peace Foundation · Jul 8, 2008
Open World Delegation Visits Madison, WI Community
MADISON, WI — “Radiation and Health” was the subject of a June 25 roundtable organized by Madison, WI host Norma Berkowitz for an Open World delegation of five Ukrainian local and NGO officials from cities especially hard-hit by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Three U.S. radiation experts...
News Item · Library of Congress Open World Leadership Center · Jun 27, 2008
Citizen Power and the Middle East
Check out two new books on or related to the Middle East, Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006 , by Cathy Sultan (Scarletta Press), and Re-engage! America and the World after Bush , by Helena Cobban (Paradigm Publishers). I'm prompted to write about them after a friend...
News Item · TIME Magazine Blog · May 15, 2008
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
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