IFP Supporter Organizations
Iranians For Peace is a collection of organizations made up primarily of Iranian expatriates who are interested in combining their voices in support of peace. The only criteria for listing is that the organization adopts the IFP founding statement and is willing to help promote it.We welcome participation by people of all nationalities, religions, ideologies and political orientations.
- Iranian.com
- IranNegah.com
- U.S. Department of Peace Campaign Kentucky
- Fellowship Of Reconciliation
- Imperial College Iranian Society
- Interfaith Paths to Peace
- Payvand.com
- Teach Peace Foundation
- Miles for peace
- Iranian Student Association at Georgia State
- Middle East Socio-Political Association (MESPA)
- The Mossadegh Project
- Middle East Citizens Assembly - Iran
Iranian.com
Contact Name: Jahanshah Javid
Iranian.com is a community site for the Iranian diaspora -- the Iranian expatriates who care about their identity, culture, music, history, politics, literature and each other, as well as friends and family living in Iran.
While registered members of Iranian.com come from all over the world, most readers are in North America (65%), Europe (18%), Oceana (7%) and the bulk of the remainder in south and southwest Asia. The site has been blocked by most Internet providers in Iran.
Iranian.com was born in July 1995 in New York City. Founder/publisher Jahanshah Javid's objective was to provide a free forum for the introduction, exchange and collection of ideas, stories, images and music related to Iran and Iranians.
IranNegah.com
Iran Negah mission is to improve the flow of information from Iran to the rest of the world. Aside from discussing Iran's nuclear ambitions, today's media rarely unveils life inside Iran. We want people to see more.In Farsi, "negah" means "look," and thus the name evokes a sense of the chance to peer through a sort of window into everyday Iranian life – something that most of us hardly have an opportunity to do. Iran Negah employs clips from Iranian media, raw footage, and historical footage to provide you with an inside look into Iranian culture, politics and society.
Iran Negah archive is a unique and valuable resource available free to view for everyone.
U.S. Department of Peace Campaign Kentucky
Contact Name: Kim Summers-Bates
Fellowship Of Reconciliation
Contact Name: Leila Zand
In 1914, an ecumenical conference was held in Switzerland by Christians seeking to prevent the outbreak of war in Europe. Before the conference ended, however, World War I had started and those present had to return to their respective countries. At a railroad station in Germany, two of the participants, Henry Hodgkin, an English Quaker, and Friedrich Sigmund-Schultze, a German Lutheran, pledged to find a way of working for peace even though their countries were at war. Out of this pledge Christians gathered in Cambridge, England in December 1914 to found the Fellowship of Reconciliation. The FOR-USA was founded one year later, in 1915.
FOR has since become an interfaith and international movement with branches and groups in over 40 countries and on every continent. Today the membership of FOR includes Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, and people of other faith traditions, as well as those with no formal religious affiliation.
Imperial College Iranian Society
Contact Name: Soroush Karimi
Imperial College Iranian Society can boast the oldest and finest established Iranian Society in Britain. Our aim is to promote and encourage an awareness of the Iranian culture and to act as a means for Iranian students at the University of London to get to know each other.
Imperial College London Iranian Society has always been very active. As always, its main aim has been to provide an opportunity for both Iranians and those interested in the Iranian culture to meet, exchange ideas and enjoy what this enriched culture has to offer.
Interfaith Paths to Peace
Contact Name: Terry Taylor - Executive Director of Interfaith Paths to Peace
Working with faith communities and others with parallel interests to educate, advocate, coordinate and empower the larger community in support of peace, human rights, and justice through interfaith dialogue.
Payvand
Payvand.com (www.payvand.com) was established in Silicon Valley (San
Francisco Bay Area) in late 1995 as one of the first web sites dedicated to
Iranian issues. Our mission is to bring the Iranians and those interested in
Iran together. As an Iranian-American web site, we are especially focused on
issues of importance to the Iranian communities abroad. We believe these
communities, including the Iranian-American community, can and should play a
bigger role in the social and political arena. And we hope that our active
coverage of the community achievements will strengthen us as a group and
encourage activism. Also, our goal is to open a window into our homeland
through which we can promote understanding, dialogue and peace with our
adopted homes.
Teach Peace Foundation
Contact Name: David Dionis
Teach Peace Foundation teaches individuals and organizations how to work for peace.
Teach Peace:
- offers a caring way to engage the general public in discussion.
- fosters collaboration among existing peace groups locally, nationally and internationally.
- serves as a lightening rod of courage for other people to stand up for justice.
- empowers local communities and unites peace pieces into a cohesive force teaching peace.
Teach Peace mission is to help people acquire sufficient background for their role as citizens of a democracy. Teach Peace helps transform the peace movement from a movement of pieces into a cohesive force for non-violent change and promote transparency, democratic processes, and addressing the issues that are often considered by schools and other organizations to be to controversial.
Miles for peace
On May 10th, 2007 after three months of planning and hard working,
14 Iranians embarked on a journey to convey Iranians pacifist message
to the world.
We Iranians are peace-loving people.
We Iranians, love all other nations.
We Iranians wish to be constructive members of the international community.
The trip lasted 70 days and started from Rome,Italy and was to continue on 18 more cities in four more countries.
Iranian Student Association at Georgia State
Contact Name: Negar Mohammadi
The primary objective of the Iranian Student Association (ISA) is to promote Iranian culture and
heritage within the Georgia State University community. The ISA also strives to assist Iranian students at GSU throughout their scholastic careers, and to promote Iranian culture outside of Georgia State University and within Metro Atlanta.
Middle East Socio-Political Association (MESPA)
Contact Name: Brett Duvall (the president of MESPA)
The Middle East Socio-Political Association (MESPA) is a student organization at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. The primary focus of MESPA is to address the cultural and political issues that frame our understanding of the modern Middle East.
Additionally, MESPA is highly involved in promoting out-reach between American communities and communities from the Middle East. MESPA is also involved with Model Arab League from the Political Science Department at Georgia State.
The Mossadegh Project
Contact Name: E. Norouzi
Peace and reconciliation between Iran and the West requires recognition of the history that led us here. In 1953, a CIA coup toppled a legitimate, secular and highly popular leader, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, crushing Iran's young, emerging democracy in the process. Over 50 years later, most Americans still have no knowledge of this event.
The Mossadegh Project was founded to help enlighten the public about the coup and its effects, the life and ideals of Iran's former Prime Minister Mossadegh, and their relevance to the present critical US-Iran situation by providing information and analysis of this important history.
Middle East Citizens Assembly - Iran
People's Initiative for Peace, Progress and Political Pluralism in the Broader Middle East Region
The Middle East Citizens Assembly founded at the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue on Terrorism and the New War Seminar on December 10, 2001, in Istanbul, is initiating series of workshops to promote active grass root participation of individuals and non-governmental organizations for peace, reconciliation and cooperation in the Greater Middle East Region.
CASMII
Contact Name: Alex Patico
CASMII is an independent campaign organisation with the purpose of opposing sanctions, foreign state interference and military intervention in Iran.
The on-going demonization of Iran as part of the "axis of evil" first initiated by George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Speech, together with the more recent, growing threats of sanctions and military action by the US and Israel against Iran, all continue to seriously escalate international tension.
They are likely to lead to a catastrophe even more horrifying than the present disaster in Iraq, threatening international peace and security. The future of Iran, and its political system and leadership, must be determined solely by the collective will of the Iranian people themselves and not through foreign state interference or intervention.
Increasing international tensions and conflict are destructive to the causes of peace, justice and democracy. We appeal to people of all faiths as well as to people with a secular outlook and those of all political and ideological persuasions, to join us in building an effective international campaign for peace and dialogue, and against
sanctions, foreign state interference, destabilization and military intervention in Iran.
We call on all Iranians and non-Iranians alike to join us to build a strong independent international campaign to stop another disastrous war in the Middle East before it starts.** Our strategy focuses upon:
* raising a strong voice in the media (Internet, radio & TV and the press), and challenging questionable new allegations and threats as they arise
* holding public meetings to raise the issues and to provide a critique of the increasingly belligerent threats against Iran
* lobbying members of parliament and opinion-makers
* extending the campaign to an international level
* working in full and close collaboration with all groups sharing similar aims to build public pressure against all forms of foreign state interference in Iran
Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support
Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support(SCWVS) is a Non Governmental Organization which has been approved by the Ministry of Interior according to NGOs registration rule (part A, article II of 584,585 domestic law, July1998).
The SCWVS has been established to conduct medical, social, legal and cultural support for more than 50,000 Iranian gas attack survivors (including some 7,000 civilian victims) who are suffering from the long term effects of exposure to chemical weapons employed by the Iraqi regime during eight years of the Iraq-Iran war and to try to improve their quality of life as well as that of their family members.
Iran-US Peace Forum
Message of peace and friendship to the people of United States of America.
We are a group of independent Iranian civil society representatives engaged in scientific and humanitarian work in our country. Some of us are also engaged in social service activities beyond our borders. While working for common causes, we often hold hands with civil society partners from other parts of the world, including members of the US scientific and civil society community. Because of the many compatriots we have in your country, we feel a special human bond linking us together. We are non-partisan and have no political agenda.
Tehran Peace Museum
The Tehran Peace Museum is a space to make peace. It is
everyone’s place to learn, contemplate, dream, and work for realization of a more peaceful world. The Peace Museum is dedicated to displaying, preserving, creating, encouraging and celebrating the artifacts of peace that further its mission: to inspire a culture of peace.
Iran Alliance
Tapesh 2012
Each plan, each project and each vision needs its time. Each successful plan needs to be carried out by many people sharing the same believes and aims. Our foremost goal is to play in Tehran by 2012. We believe in an open, peaceful and positive future. With the positive energy of people, creating a fair world in the future would be a feasible task.
Tapesh 2012 is the winner of the 2006 "creole-Preis für Weltmusik aus NRW" (the "creole NRW" [North-Rhine Westphalia] world music award). Besides being a band, Tapesh 2012 is a growing community and organization. We have a huge and definite aim. Democracy, steadiness, peace and prosperity for IRAN and the Middle East. The future of Iran and the Middle East ought to and can be best managed by the own populations.
The producers of Tapesh 2012 work together with different singers & rappers like Shahin Najafi & Omid, Wojna (German) and Toni T. (English). Tapesh 2012 doesn't associate itself with any political party. We see ourselves as a bridge between all the parties and organizations that share the same aims and above all who accept global human rights.
Canadians Against War
Canadians Against War (CAW) is an independent organization of dedicated and passionate Canadians committed to promoting peace around the world. Through the creation of an interactive community website and the use of communications and conferencing technology, CAW plans to organize member groups across Canada while also establishing a foundation from which members can plan, organize and promote peace and anti-war activities. CAW will act as an umbrella organization to these community based groups and individuals to assist in the creation and organization of a unified anti-war movement. Through group oriented interaction provided through the website, CAW will facilitate the planning and execution of peace events and awareness campaigns executed by member groups across Canada. In addition to this, CAW will engage in discussion with other anti-war and peace organizations with the goal of assisting to create more unified Canadian peace campaigns.
As a Canadian peace promoting organization, CAW first and foremost opposes any military action or intervention by Canadian forces. We also oppose all wars around the globe and oppose pre-emptive attacks because we encourage active dialogue to prevent conflicts instead. Considering our strong opposition to war, CAW accordingly encourages community education, diversityand pushes Canada to help protect human rights and civil liberties rather than violate them.
Our justification for such an organization originated because we discovered that there are many groups and individuals with the desire to participate in the advocacy of peace but lack the appropriate means to do so. As a result, CAW will provide the guidance and the means of national and international communication to help support a unified movement of peace groups, members and organizations across Canada.In line with our desire to promote our purpose to stop war and protect human rights is also our emphasis on co-operative action of groups and organizations with the same goals and aspirations.
Mohajer Foundation
Mohajer is a non-profit foundation of Iranian Diaspora.
Campaign Iran
Contact Name: Naz Massoumi
Campaign Iran is independent of all political groups and governments and holds universal respect for human rights as its core value. We oppose any form of sanctions and believe that military intervention against Iran will lead to another major humanitarian, environmental and economic catastrophe for the people of the country and the region, profoundly damaging any efforts towards democracy and a better future. The continued US-lead terror in the Middle East must stop. The facts remain: 1 Iran has not breached its international treaty obligations regarding nuclear proliferation. 2 Iran poses no imminent threat to any nation. 3 There is no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons or supplying weapons to insurgents in Iraq. Whilst an attack on Iran remains a possibility, we must unite to prevent another disastrous war.
Iran Heritage
Iran- Heritage goal is to raise the awareness of the public about Iran’s culture and natural resources by holding conferences and conducting research on important issues.
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