Links in relation to the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF)
The Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF) has, based on shared principles, identified selected organizations to which links are provided below.
The list includes PIEF-related groups, specialized church ministries, and other groups who are seeking a just peace in Palestine-Israel. The purpose is to underline the collaborative intentions of PIEF and to support access to similar information bases for the work.
- Churches and church agencies
- Palestinian and Israeli organizations
- International organizations and campaigns
Churches and church agencies
ACT Alliance /ACT Palestine Forum (APF)
The APF's objective is to increase the effectiveness and impact of the humanitarian assistance and development work being undertaken by members through improved coordination. One of the projects of the APF is to conduct joint advocacy on behalf of the members of the forum.
AFP is a part of the ACT Alliance which is a coalition of more than 140 churches and affiliated organisations working together in over 140 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality in keeping with the highest international codes and standards. Members are associated with the World Council of Churches or the Lutheran World Federation. Read more...
Christian Aid
Christian Aid insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty.Christian Aid’s focus on the Middle East is based on studies and practical support to people who fall victim to the conflict.Christian Aid has worked in Israel and what are now the Occupied Palestinian Territories for more than 50 years to protect human rights, access to services and resources, and to build a peace based on justice for all. Read more...
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP)
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is a coalition of 23 public policy offices of national churches and agencies -- Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant. The work of Churches for Middle East Peace focuses on Washington in the knowledge that sound United States policy is crucial to achieving and maintaining just and stable relationships throughout the Middle East. Among principal advocacy concerns are: the avoidance and resolution of armed conflicts, human rights, arms control, foreign aid, and the unique nature of Jerusalem - sacred to Christians, Jews and Muslims. Read more…
Comité Catholique Contre la Faim et pour le Développement (CCFD)
The Conference of Catholic bishops of France has mandated the CCFD with the mission of mobilizing Christian solidarity in order to promote solidarity between peoples by acting for development. In order to accomplish this mission CCFD has a focus on development initiatives and public awareness on international issues. CCFD has a series of solidarity initiatives with for justice in Palestine. Read more...
Diakonia
Diakonia is a Swedish organization whose goal is a fair and sustainable development in which living standards for the most vulnerable people are improved, and democracy, human rights and gender equality are respected. Bearing in mind the fragile political, social and economic situation in Palestine, Diakonia believes it is crucial to continue working for change that will add value to every-day life of Palestinian people. Diakonia is cooperating with Israeli and Palestinian partner organizations that are working for peace and respect for international humanitarian law and human rights. Read more…
Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine Israel (EAPPI)
The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) brings internationals to the West Bank to experience life under occupation. Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs) provide protective presence to vulnerable communities, monitor and report human rights abuses and support Palestinians and Israelis working together for peace. When they return home, EAs campaign for a just and peaceful resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through an end to the occupation, respect for international law and implementation of UN resolutions. Read more...
Finn Church Aid (FCA)
Finn Church Aid (FCA) operates in more than 30 countries, wherever the need is greatest. Its work is with the poorest people, regardless of their religious beliefs, ethnic background or political convictions. FCA believes that lasting change requires the realization of peace and human rights through long-term cooperation with local communities and people. In the Middle East FCA recognizes political uncertainty, lack of democracy, war and conflict as factors that make people's lives difficult. Read more…
Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP)
Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) promotes peace between Israel and Palestine, via two states, that meets the fundamental needs of both peoples. The Foundation is dedicated to promoting, a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that brings peace and security to both peoples. FMEP offers speakers, sponsors programs, makes small grants, and publishes the Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories containing analysis, commentary, maps, and others. Read more…
Kairos Palestine
Kairos Palestine is a document that has become the foundation of a global resistance movement against the Israel occupation of Palestinan territories. Palestinian Christians hope that the Kairos document "will provide the turning point to focus the efforts of all peace-loving peoples in the world" in ending the ccupation. Kairos members believe that liberation from occupation is in the interest of all peoples in the region because the problem is not just a political one, but one in which human beings are destroyed.They make their call on God to inspire all, particularly leaders and policy-makers, to find the way of justice and equality, and to realize that it is the only way that leads to the genuine peace we are seeking. Read more
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives is a web of people and partnerships dedicated to a faithful and decisive response to God’s call for respect for the earth and justice for its people. A faith-based ecumenical organization, inspired by a vision of God’s compassionate justice, KAIROS effects social change through advocacy, education and research programs.Read more...
The mission of the Near East Council of Churches Committee for Refugee Work (NECCCRW) in the Gaza Area aims to empower and strengthen Palestinian individuals and communities for a better quality of life. The Gaza Area Committee serves the Palestinian people irrespective of religion, faith, political affiliation, geographical locality, gender or creed. It is part of the Department of Service to the Palestine Refugee (DSPR) and is a department of the Middle East Council of Churches. Read more…
The Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) encourages congregations and presbytery mission committees, task groups and other entities toward specific mission goals to create currents of wider and deeper involvement with Israel/Palestine. It seeks to demonstrate solidarity, educate about the facts on the ground, and change the conditions that erode the humanity of both Israelis and Palestinians, especially those who are living in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza.Read more…
The United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL) was established by the Division for Palestinian Rights in response to successive General Assembly mandates. The main collection contains the texts of current and historical United Nations material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation and the search for peace. Read more...
Pax Christi International is a non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues in the fields of human rights, human security, disarmament and demilitarisation, just world order and religion and violent conflict. Read more...
Peace Not Walls is a special ELCA campaign calling for efforts toward a viable, contiguous Palestinian state; a secure Israeli state at peace with its Arab neighbors; and a shared Jerusalem with equal access and rights for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.Read more...
The General Board of Church and Society is an agency of The United Methodist Church that seeks to project plans and programs that challenge the members of The United Methodist Church to work through their own local churches, ecumenical channels, and society toward personal, social, and civic righteousness. The agency also encourages Christian lines of action that assist humankind to move toward a world where peace and justice are achieved. Read more...
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition is a broad-based, non-partisan, democratic, and charitable organization of grassroots activists and students committed to comprehensive public education on the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin, and to full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International law and the numerous United Nations Resolutions upholding such rights . Read more…
Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization based in Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Al-Haq documents violations of the individual and collective rights of Palestinians in the OPT, irrespective of the identity of the perpetrator, and seeks to end such breaches by way of advocacy before national and international mechanisms. Read more…
AIC is an internationally oriented, progressive, joint Palestinian-Israeli activist organization. It is engaged in dissemination of information, political advocacy, grassroots activism and critical analysis of the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The AIC strives to promote full individual and collective social, economic, political and gender equality, freedom and democracy and a rejection of the philosophy (ideology and praxis) (weltanschauung) of separation. Read more…
The Alternative Tourism Group (ATG) is a Palestinian NGO specializing in tours and pilgrimages that include critical examinations of the history, culture, and politics of the Holy Land. ATG operates according to the tenets of justice tourism, that is, tourism that holds as its central goals the creation of economic opportunities for the local community, positive cultural exchange between guest and host through one-on-one interaction, the protection of the environment, and political/historical education. Read more...
Working with youth, women and educators, the Arab Educational Institute-Open Windows is engaged in the field of community education to contribute to the general causes of participation in public life and in peace and justice; the building of a free, democratic and culturally pluralistic Palestine; and the sharing and communication of the daily life reality of Palestine with broader audiences. Read more...
BADIL Resource Centre is registered with the Palestinian Authority and legally owned by the refugee community and is composed of activists in Palestinian national institutions and refugee community organizations.BADIL has consultative status with UN ECOSOC, a framework partnership agreement with UNHCR, and is a member of the global Palestine Right-of-Return Coalition, al-Awda Right-to-Return Coalition (USA), and BDS Campaign National Committee. Read more…
Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC) The goal of the BNC includes strengthening spreading the culture of boycott as a central form of civil resistance to Israeli occupation and apartheid. The Palestinian Call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel launched in July 2005 with the initial endorsement of over 170 Palestinian organizations represents three major components of the Palestinians - the refugees in exile, Palestinians under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza and the subjugated Palestinian citizens of the Israeli state. Read more...
Center for Research and Development pursues a comprehensive approach to community development in Palestine. Through its mission, the Bisan Center has successfully initiated 50 community centers throughout the West Bank and Gaza, provided thousands of Palestinians with vocational training, and produced scores of studies and research reports about Palestinian community development. Read more...
B'tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories endeavors to educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and create a human rights culture in Israel. B'Tselem acts primarily to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories and ensure that its government, which rules the Occupied Territories, protects human rights and complies with its obligations under international law.Read more...
The Combatants for Peace movement was started jointly by Palestinians and Israelis, who have taken an active part in the cycle of violence; Israelis as soldiers in the Israeli army (IDF) and Palestinians as part of the violent struggle for Palestinian freedom. After brandishing weapons for so many years, and having seen one another only through weapon sights, these former combatants have decided to put down their guns, and to fight for peace. Read more...
DCI-Palestine is the national section of the international non-governmental child rights organization and movement, Defence for Children International (DCI), established in 1979. DCI-Palestine develops its own programs according to Palestinian children’s needs and priorities. Read more...
Gush Shalom aims to influence Israeli public opinion and lead it towards peace and conciliation with the Palestinian people. It seeks an end to the occupation, accepting the right of the Palestinian people to an independent and sovereign State, in all the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, and establishing Jerusalem as the capital of the two states, with East Jerusalem including the Haram al-Sharif as the capital of Palestine and West Jerusalem (including the Western Wall) serving as the capital of Israel. It recognizes in principle the Right of Return. Read on...
Global Ministries
Global Ministries are North American churches in the Reformed tradition. Their faith heritage and family roots are grounded in the Middle East and Europe. Because of this they accompany many churches, faith-based organizations, and institutions in the Middle East and Europe on human rights, advocate for justice and peace, engage in interfaith dialogue; respond to emergencies, including natural disasters and war; promote community and economic development; Provide opportunities for education—from primary schools through seminaries and universities; and witness to their faith even in challenging contexts. Read on...
ICAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. It engages in issues of land expropriation, settlement expansion, by-pass road construction, policies of "closure" and "separation," the wholesale uprooting of fruit and olive trees and more. ICAHD's activities extend to resistance and protest actions in the Occupied Territories; bring the reality of the Occupation to Israeli society; and mobilizing the international community for a just peace. Read more...
MachsomWatch,is an organisation of peace activist Israeli women against the Israeli Occupation of the territories and the systematic repression of the Palestinian nation. It calls for Palestinian freedom of movement within their own territory and for an end to the Occupation that destroys Palestinian society and inflicts grievous harm on Israeli society. Read more...
New Profile is a feminist movement working to demilitarize society and state in Israel. Read more...
Sabeel is an ecumenical grassroots liberation theology movement among Palestinian Christians that seeks to deepen the faith of Palestinian Christians, and to promote unity among them toward social action. Read more...
The Jewish Fast for Gaza is an ad hoc group of rabbis, Jews, and people of conscience who have committed to undertake a monthly daytime fast in support of lifting of the blockade that prevents the entry of civilian goods and services into Gaza. It also provides humanitarian and developmental aid to the people of Gaza; and encourages the American government to vigorously engage both Israelis and Palestinians toward a just and peaceful settlement of the conflict. Read more...
The Palestine Monitor is an informal network of writers and activists who seek to highlight an alternative narrative from inside occupied Palestine. Palestine Monitor and present the occupation of Palestine from a Palestinian perspective. It highlights the fact that a credible lasting peace settlement is only possible with full scale democracy, equality for Palestinians, and internationally recognized human rights that are implemented and adhered to across Israel and Palestine. Read on...
Peace Now is the oldest peace movement and one with a significantly broad public base. Its basic principle affirms the right of Israel to live within secure borders and the right of our neighbors to do the same, including the right of Palestinians to self-determination. Peace Now operates through public campaigns, advertisements, petitions, distribution of educational materials, conferences and lectures, surveys, dialogue groups, street activities, vigils, and demonstrations. Read on...
The Coalition of Women for Peace brings together independent women and 10 feminist peace organizations who work relentlessly for peace and justice. The Coalition is a leading voice in the peace movement and is committed to the struggle to end the occupation. It seeks the full involvement of women in peace negotiations; to an end to the excessive militarization of Israeli society; to equality, inclusion, and justice for Palestinian citizens of Israel; to equality and social justice for all inhabitants of Israel. Read more...
Wi'am focuses on helping to resolve disputes within the Palestinian community by complementing the traditional Arab form of mediation, called Sulha, with Western models of conflict resolution within the occupied and oppressed state of Palestine. Read more...
A Just Peace for Palestine is a grassroots, multi-agency campaign that is committed to a just peace for Palestine that affirms the dignity of the Palestinian people, in accordance with their civil, political and human rights under international law. Read more...
Peace for Life is a global faith-based movement resisting militarised globalisation and creating life-enhancing alternatives. Read more...
The United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL) was established by the Division for Palestinian Rights in response to successive General Assembly mandates. The main collection contains the texts of current and historical United Nations material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation and the search for peace. Read more...
The Question of Palestine site United Nations maintained by the Division for Palestinian Rights & provides information and links to a wide range of relevant documents on the history, and various questions and issues pertaining to 'Peace and Security' in Palestine and Israel from a UN perspective. Read more...
OCHA's mission is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors.Over the past ten years, while the percentage of Palestinians living in poverty has sharply grown, coordination of UN response has continued to improve, particularly with regard to developing a more integrated approach and facilitating better prioritization of activities at both the local and central level. Read more...
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. Amnesty has taken significant actions if contesting human rights violations in the OPT and there have been many studies carried out in this regard. These studies have galvanized advocacy and other actions designed to change the situation for the better. Read more...
