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The Fellowship of Reconciliation is composed of individuals who recognize the essential unity of all creation and have joined together to explore the power of love and truth for resolving human conflict.

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FOR has local chapters and affiliates in more than 100 communities in the United States. These groups provide local FOR members and supporters a vehicle for fellowship, mutual support and collective action. Through local groups, individuals can explore and act upon FOR’s principles of faith-based nonviolence.

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Demilitarizing Life & Land

201 The Fellowship of Reconciliation pursues a vision of a free and “demilitarized” world in which the Earth’s resources sustain life and promote the well-being of all people.

Local Chapters
Group Name Contact Website
Atlanta FOR Gus Kaufman, gkaufmanjr@aol.com or (404) 875-0081 https://www.facebook...
Cape Cod FOR Ken Campbell, ksbcampbell@verizon.net or (508) 240-5169
Chicago FOR Sam Smith, forchicago@comcast.net or (630) 240-5039 http://www.facebook....
Choose Peace FOR Harvey Yoder, harvyoder@gmail.com or (540) 434-6810 ext. 109
Circles of Peace John Cooper, jcooper1154@bellsouth.net or (205) 554-1889, or Alina Coryell, alina.coryell@gmail.com http://tuscaloosacir...
Corvallis FOR Laurie Childers, childers@peak.org or (541) 757-9025
Fire Mountain FOR Larry Kerschner, peacepoet@gmail.com or (360) 880-4741
Gainesville FOR Eve & Richard MacMaster, BeltramPeaceCenter@gmail.com or (352) 377-6577 http://forgainesvill...
Houston FOR Lee Loe, leeloe@igc.org or (713) 524-2682
Hudson Valley FOR hudvalfor@gmail.com
Inland Communities FOR Marilyn Sequoia, redwoodgirl@sbcglobal.net http://www.icfor.org...
Los Angeles FOR Bob McCloskey and Linda Tubach, bobmccloskey06@yahoo.com or (626) 284-6212
Louisville FOR Jean Edwards, louisvillefor@yahoo.com or (502) 458-8056 http://www.louisvill...
Mid-Missouri FOR Jeff Stack, jstack@formissouri.org or (573) 489-1402 http://midmofor.blog...
Minnesota FOR Don Christensen, rachelanddon@msn.com or (651) 690-2609 http://www.mnfor.org
New York City FOR Kate Anne Brennan, kateannenyc@gmail.com or (917) 374-9679 or Linda Rousseau, rousseaulinda@gmail.com or (212) 662-7074
North Manchester FOR Julie Garber, jlgarber@manchester.edu or (260) 982-2083 http://www.nmfor.org...
Olympia FOR Glen Anderson, glen@olywa.net or (360) 491-9093 http://www.olyfor.or...
Oregon FOR info@ofor.org or Paul Larue, plarue@peak.org or (503) 585-0805 http://www.ofor.org
Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois/ FOR pcsi_for@yahoo.com or (618) 549-1409 http://www.sipeace.o...
Rock Valley FOR Sue Nelson, snelson@habiba.org or (608) 741-3764 http://www.rockvalle...
Scioto Peace and Justice FOR Connie Altman, altmanconnie@ymail.com or (740) 259-4289
Seattle FOR Bill Ames, bill@silentpondmassage.com or (206) 783-9445
Stevens County FOR Bruce and Janis Pruitt-Hamm, bpruitthamm@plix.com or (509) 685-1230
Students FOR Peace at Hamline University Andrea Merrill, amerrill01@hamlineuniversity.edu
Tacoma FOR David Lambert, dmlamb@harbornet.com or (253) 759-2280
Tarrant County FOR Bernard and Carol Kern, carolkern@yahoo.com or (817) 581-7865, or Lon Burnam, lonburnam@gmail.com
Veterans' FOR and International Veterans' FOR Jim Murphy, ivetsfor@gmail.com
Washington DC FOR John and Bobbie Stewart, bobbienjohn@verizon.net or (202) 667-1186
Western Washington FOR Ellen Finkelstein, wwfor@wwfor.org or (206) 789-5565 http://www.wwfor.org
Whidbey FOR Tom Ewell, tewell@whidbey.com or (360) 341-1457
Affiliate Groups
Group Name Contact Website
Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justice Steve Sullivan, stevesullivan77@yahoo.com or (501) 944-9297 http://arpeaceandjus...
Boundary County Peace Group Jerry Pavia, plantshooter@hotmail.com or (208) 267-7374
Carolina Peace Resource Center Arnold Karr, director@carolinapeace.org or (803) 261-0495 http://www.carolinap...
Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice William H. Anderson, wha@cms.mail.virginia.edu or (434) 971-7931 http://www.charlotte...
Columbus Peace Fellowship Sarah Grey, sarahgrey@att.net or (812) 376-8102 http://www.facebook....
Community Cooks Victoria I, communitycooks@gmail.com http://communitycook...
Community of Living Traditions Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, rabbilynn@earthlink.net or (845) 786-5674 http://communityofli...
Creating a Culture of Peace Janet Chisholm, janet.chisholm@creatingacultureofpeace.org or (845) 641-3648 http://www.creatinga...
Creative Response to Conflict Priscilla Prutzman, pprutzman@crc-global.org or (845) 353-1796 http://www.crc-globa...
Ecumenical Peace Institute/ Clergy and Laity Concerned Carolyn Scarr, epicalc@lmi.net or (510) 548-4141 http://www.epicalc.o...
Enough Fear Nick Jehlen, nick@enoughfear.org or (617) 504-7601 http://www.enoughfea...
Fresno Center for Nonviolence Richard Stone, info@centerfornonviolence.org or (559) 237-3223 http://centerfornonv...
Idaho Peace Coalition idahopeacecoalition@msn.com or (208) 854-0953 http://www.montanape...
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace icujp@pacbell.net or (213) 748-1643 http://icujp.org/
Interfaith Peace Network of Western New York June License, jlicence@acsu.buffalo.edu or (716) 773-1426
Interfaith Peace-Builders Mike Daly, mdaly@ifpb.org or (202) 244-0821 http://www.ifpb.org/
Iraq Memorial to Life Douglas Mackey, douglas.mackey@iraqmemorialtolife.org http://www.oly-wa.us...
Jubilee Partners Don Mosley, dmos@igc.org or (706) 783-5131 http://www.jubileepa...
Justice Works! Kathya Alexander, justice_works@yahoo.com or (206) 725-9189 http://justiceworks....
Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern Nancy Tate, lepoco@fast.net or (610) 691-8730 http://www.lepoco.or...
Metta Center for Nonviolence Education Michael Nagler, mnagler@igc.org or (510) 548-5550 http://www.mettacent...
Mid-South Peace and Justice Center Allison Glass, allison@midsouthpeace.org or (901) 725-4990 http://www.midsouthp...
Ohio Valley PEACE ovpeace@ohiovalleypeace.org or John Morgan, jmrrpress@gmail.com or (740) 926-1481 http://www.ohiovalle...
Pacific Justice and Reconciliation Center LouAnn Guanson, pjrcgo@gmail.com or (808) 531-5122 http://www.pacificpe...
Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane Liz Moore, lmoore@pjals.org or (509) 838-7870 http://pjals.org/
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County Susan Lamont, peacentr@sonic.net or (707) 575-8902 http://www.peaceandj...
Peace Economy Project Tila Neguse, tila@peaceeconomyproject.org or (314) 726-6406 http://www.peaceecon...
Peace House of Ashland Pam Vavra, info@peacehouse.net or (541) 482-9625 http://www.peacehous...
Peace Way Ben Willeford, willefrd@bucknell.edu or (570) 523-3345
Pittsburgh North People for Peace and Justice Mary Sheehan, pnpp@verizon.net or (412) 367-0383
Resource Center for Nonviolence rcnvinfo@gmail.com or (831) 423-1626 ×101 http://rcnv.org/
Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice info@rocklandaction.org or Nancy Tsou, lythrn@aol.com http://www.rocklanda...
Rural Southern Voices for Peace Herb Walters, hwalters@yancey.main.nc.us or (828) 675-5933 http://www.listening...
San Jose Peace and Justice Center Shelby Minister, coordinator@sanjosepeace.org or (408) 297-2299 http://www.sanjosepe...
Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace Rita Sloan, rwrksloan@hotmail.com or (775) 849-1653 or Pat Coia, crmmp2001@yahoo.com or (775) 348-7847
Social Democrats-Socialist Party, USA Gabriel McCloskey-Ross, natsec@socialistparty-usa.org or (814) 410-2542 http://socialistpart...
Soulforce Carlos Perez de Alejo, carlos@soulforce.org or (321) 948-3423 http://www.soulforce...
The Freedom Project Verne Garvie, verne@freedom-project.org or (206) 325-5678 http://freedom-proje...
The House of Peace John Schuchardt, thehouseofpeace@yahoo.com or (978) 356-9395
United for Peace and Justice Michael McPhearson, info.ufpj@gmail.com or (212) 868-5545 http://unitedforpeac...
Veterans of Hope Project Gloria Smith, gmsith@iliff.edu or (303) 765-3194 http://veteransofhop...
Voices for Creative Nonviolence Kathy Kelly, info@vcnv.org or (773) 878-3815 http://vcnv.org/
Volusia PeaceCenter Dana Humphrey, info@volusiapeacecenter.org or (386) 428-2670 https://www.facebook...
War Resisters League Kimber Heinz, kimber@warresisters.org or (212) 228-0450 x12 http://www.warresist...
Religious Peace Fellowships
Group Name Contact Website
Adventist Peace Fellowship Monte Sahlin, msahlin@creativeministry.org or (301) 325-8095 http://www.adventist...
American Friends Service Committee Geri Sicola, gsicola@afsc.org or (215) 241-7151 http://afsc.org/
American Muslim Voice Samina Faheem Sundas, amvoiceorg@gmail.com or (650) 387-1994 http://www.amuslimvo...
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America Evelyn Hanneman, evelyn@bpfna.org or (704) 521-6051 http://www.bpfna.org...
Brethren Peace Fellowship (410) 775-2254
Buddhist Peace Fellowship Sarah Weintraub, sarah@bpf.org or (510) 655-6169 http://www.bpf.org/
Catholic Peace Fellowship The Rev. Michael Baxter, staff@catholicpeacefellowship.org or (574) 232-2811 http://www.catholicp...
Center on Conscience and War J.E. McNeil, j_e@centeronconscience.org or (202) 483-2220 http://www.centeronc...
Church of God Peace Fellowship Rev. Maurice Caldwell, mauricecaldwell@aol.com or (765) 643-0049 http://www.peacechog...
Disciples Peace Fellowship disciplespeace@gmail.com or (317) 713-2678 http://www.dpfweb.or...
Episcopal Peace Fellowship The Rev. Jackie Lynn, epfnational@ameritech.net or (312) 922-8628 http://epfnational.o...
Faith Voices for the Common Good Rev. Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, rita@faithvoices.org or (510) 459-5123 http://www.faithvoic...
Grow the Hope David Hart, david@growthehope.org http://growthehope.o...
Healing of the Nations Foundation Rev. Dr. James Forbes, info@healingofthenations.com or (212) 870-3061 http://www.healingof...
Interfaith Paths to Peace Terry Taylor, interfaithterry@gmail.com or (502) 214-7322 http://paths2peace.o...
Islamic Society of North America Dr. Sayyid Syeed, ssyeed@aol.com or (202) 544-5656 http://www.isna.net/
Jewish Peace Fellowship Stefan Merken, smerken@earthlink.net or (206) 723-2394 http://www.jewishpea...
Lutheran Peace Fellowship Glen Gersmehl, lpf@ecunet.org or (206) 720-0313 http://www.lutheranp...
Mennonite Central Committee Doug Hostetter, unliaison@mcc.org or (212) 880-8970 http://mcc.org/
Mennonite Church USA Tim Huber, timh@mennoniteusa.org or (866) 866-2872 x34386 http://peace.mennoli...
Methodist Federation for Social Action Jill Warren, jillawarren@mfsaweb.org or (202) 546-8806 http://mfsaweb.org/
Muslim American Society Ibrahim Ramey, ibrahim.ramey@gmail.com or (202) 552-7414 http://www.masnet.or...
Muslim Peace Fellowship Rabia Harris, mpfrth@gmail.com or (215) 635-0636 http://mpf21.wordpre...
New England Peace Pagoda Sr. Clare Carter, (413) 367-2202 http://www.newenglan...
Nonviolence International Michael Beer, nonviolence@igc.org or (202) 244-0951 http://nonviolencein...
On Earth Peace Matt Guynn, mguynn@onearthpeace.org or (503) 775-1636 http://www.onearthpe...
Orthodox Peace Fellowship - North America Alexander Patico, opfnorthamerica@gmail.com or (301) 596-6375 http://www.incommuni...
Pace e Bene Ken Butigan, kenbutigan@paceebene.org or (510) 268-8765 http://paceebene.org...
Pax Christi USA Sr. Dianna Ortiz, dianna.pcusa@gmail.com or (202) 635-2741 http://www.paxchrist...
Peaceworkers David Hartsough, davidhartsough@igc.org or (415) 751-0302 http://www.peacework...
Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice Natasha Rubin, natasha@pcpj.org http://www.pcpj.org/
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Mary Ann Harwell, maryann@presbypeacefellowship.org or (845) 786-6743 http://www.presbypea...
Religions for Peace Deepika Singh, dsingh@religionsforpeace.org or (212) 687-2163 http://www.rfpusa.or...
Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, rabbilynn@earthlink.net or (845) 786-5674 http://shomershalom....
Sojourners, Call to Renewal http://www.sojo.net/
The American Joint Multifaith Alliance Moin Ansari, moinansari@aol.com or (973) 984-9193 http://www.ajma.org/
The Shalom Center Rabbi Arthur Waskow, awaskow@shalomctr.org or (215) 844-8494 http://www.theshalom...
Tikkun Community - Network of Spiritual Progressives Rabbi Michael Lerner, rabbilerner@tikkun.org or (510) 644-1200 http://spiritualprog...
Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship Rev. Dennis Davidson, uupeace@uua.org or (719) 480-4206
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Atema Eclai, aeclai@uusc.org or (617) 868-6600 http://www.uusc.org/
United Methodist Church GBCS Mark Harrison, mharrison@umc-gbcs.org or (202) 488-5645 http://www.umc-gbcs....
United Methodist Church GBGM David Wildman, dwildman@gbgm-umc.org or (212) 870-3735 http://www.gbgm-umc....