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• The Justice Studies Association List
  

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  Welcome one and all!

  Love and peace--Hal Pepinsky, Justice Studies Association secretary

Contemporary Justice Review

• Gordon and Breach. Publisher's information.

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Peace and Justice Sites External to JSA

The JSA does not necessarily subscribe to or support the views of the organizations listed below.

Peace and Justice Studies Sites

General Sites

• Move On
  Activist Site in leading Internet community in public discourse that moves toward real argument without name calling . Fits into the pattern of encouraging listening as opposed to rhetoric. (Albert O. Hirschman's Rhetoric of Reaction). Site came into existence during Clinton impeachment hearings. Title, Move On, reflects the emphasis on talking together and listening to the whole argument. Link operative on August 24, 2001.

• Peace Studies Association Link operative August 24, 2001. Site last Updated: Monday, 12-Apr-1999.
  "This site is hosted by Communications for a Sustainable Future. "CSF was founded on the idea that computer networking could be used to enhance communications with the objective of working through disparate views and ideologies to secure a more promising future. The contents of the archives and the quality of communications on CSF are intended to reflect this purpose." Don Roper. Link operative August 24, 2001. "If we recognize our occasional false objectifications and listen to the stories of others, we are more likely to work together for a better future."

• Southern Poverty Law Center
  Non-profit organization "that combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation." Link operative August 24, 2001.

• Tolerance.org
  New site launched by Southern Poverty Law Center Tolerance Campaign. Link added August 24, 2001.

• The Peace Center Link operative August 24, 2001.

• National Conference for Community and Justice
  Link to NCCJ Calendar of Holidays and Festivals in the left-most frame. "This [calendar] is designed to encourage public awareness of the great mixture of religious and ethnic groups that comprise the population of the United States. Holidays and festivals are included for select religious and ethnic communities. The list is not exhaustive of the observances of any religion." Link operative August 24, 2001.

• Responding to Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Peace Link operative August 24, 2001.

• The Dallas Peace Center Link operative August 24, 2001.

• The Action Resource Center Biojustice issues. Link operative August 24, 2001.

• The Nonviolence Web Link operative August 24, 2001.

• III. Letters from Quebec: A Philosophy for Peace and Justice
  Scroll down about an inch and a half on the file. Link operative August 24, 2001.

Organizations with Religious Affiliations

• Catholic Social Justice Teachings Link operative August 24, 2001.

• The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice Link operative August 24, 2001.

• Catholic Worker Movement Problem with link on August 24, 2001.

• Justice Fellowship Prison Fellowship Ministries. Link operative August 24, 2001.

• The Mennonite Community Research Publications: Occasional Papers
  Articles available online. Link operative August 24, 2001.

• American Friends Service Committee Link operative August 24, 2001.

Poverty and Race as Affecting and Affected by Peace and Peacemaking

• Poverty and Race Research Action Council
  "PRRAC is a non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups. Our purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to successfully address problems at the intersection of race and poverty." Poverty and Race Newsletter is available online. Last issue up: March, April 2001. Checked August 4, 2000. Link operative August 24, 2001.

Human Rights

• The European Court of Human Rights Link operative August 24, 2001.

• Subject Matter of Judgments Rendered by the European Court of Human Rights in 1999 Gives a sense of the kinds of issues that are coming up to this court. Link operative August 24, 2001.

• The Council of Europe OnlineConsiderable information on human rights. Link operative August 24, 2001.

Victimology

• International Victimology Website Link operative August 24, 2001.

Death Penalty Issues

• Amensty International and the Death Penalty Link updated August 24, 2001.

• Death Penalty News and Updates Link operative August 24, 2001.

• American Society of Criminology Death Penalty Information & Resources Link operative August 24, 2001.

• ACLU Death Penalty Information "Whether you support or oppose capital punishment, there is mounting evidence that the system is broken. A review of death penalty judgments over a 23-year period found a national error rate of 68 %. In a matter of life and death, we are getting it wrong more than 2 out of every 3 times. We need a moratorium on executions to give us time to figure out why the system is not working." Link updated August 24, 2001.

Teaching Sites

• Mentoring help with the American Society of Criminology
  Has an excellent list of web resources. Site is hosted by the Critical Criminology Division. Peacemaking Criminology needs to be well represented both by mentors and by students using the mentoring process. Note that mentors include non-academics. Link operative August 24, 2001.

• Network of Educators on the Americas
  Creating a curriculum guide for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement and rejuvenating that teaching for K -12. NECA (was originally Central America). "NECA and PRRAC work to promote social and economic justice in public education through a transformative pedagogy based on critical thinking and civic activism." Teaching for Change Catalog Online. Link operative August 24, 2001.

• Teaching Tolerance, SPLC Link operative August 24, 2001.

• Tolerance.orgNew site on teaching tolerance, sponsored by the Southern Poverty Legal Center. Link added August 24, 2001.

• The Peace Center
  Resources for the curriculum. Education in Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention. Based in Pennsylvania. Link operative August 24, 2001.

• The Action Resource Center
  ARC works with inner-ciity youth in West Los Angeles. Link updated August 24, 2001.

• The Methods of Peacemaking Course
  Howard Richards, Earlham College
  Site contains "debriefing" instructions for field work in peacemaking.Link operative August 24, 2001.

Site Links Waiting to be put in appropriate category

• Construyendo la Paz
  Volume 2, Issue x, July 1999, in Spanish

• Peacebuilding
  Vol.3, Issue 3, January 2001. Link updated August 24, 2001.
• PSN-Progressive Sociology
  Colorado. Link operative August 24, 2001.
• Peace and Conflict
  Colorado. Link operative August 24, 2001.
• Peace and Conflict Research Centers, Institutes, Organizations & Networks Link operative August 24, 2001.
• Peace Studies Resource Institute
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Link operative August 24, 2001.
• Peace Education Commission
  Peace Education Listserv Link operative August 24, 2001.

  Updating stopped here on August 24, 2001. jeanne

• International Peace Research Association
• The Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development
• The Tabula Rasa Institute

Healthcare Issues

• Healthy Cities
  Projects of collaboration and recognition of both private and public space, values, concerns. Link submitted by Prof. Charles Notess (Urban Sociology).
  • Launching a healthy Communities Project
    Many peacemaking values expressed throughout this Healthy Cities tutorial.
• Oregon Health Systems In Collaboration
  "Not unlike Healthy Communities, OHSIC and the partners therein, recognized that there existed a common responsibility with regard to the need for continual improvement in the health and non-health status of the individuals and the communities within Oregon. "Further, OHSIC realized that there are certain conditions pertaining to health and non-health issues that can be addressed more effectively through cooperative and collaborative actions. This involves the utilization of combined resources and influence, rather than through acting indepedently."
• The Health Alliance of Pennsylvania
  Partnerships trying to be inclusive. Values include listening in good faith to individuals and to the community values. Recognition that a healthy community must deal with diversity and with inclusion in decision-making.

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