PEACEDOCS is a website devoted to bringing together a wide variety of documents and resources across the spectrum of human activities in pursuit of peace and justice. Its emphasis is less on the strictly political aspects of antiwar activities and more on what peacemakers have said and done to envision and actively create a world based on peace and justice.  This vision takes full account of the work of the spirit — however defined — as well as the long-term work of the mind, heart and hands.

This site includes documents of various traditions of peacemaking from their earliest record to the present. These include books, articles, archives, narratives, original sources, bibliographies, and other reference materials, some hosted on this site, some linked to e-book sites and to digital archives of peace and justice.

We also offer other types of documents: visual (images, maps, filmographies and film clips, videos and other files) and verbal (audio and sound files), as well as interactive maps, timelines, and pages on peacemaking in theater, dance, architecture, sculpture, painting, and the other arts.

Because we see peacemaking as a process of building a new world, we examine how peace and justice emerge from our most basic needs and daily life: our food, clothing, shelter, transportation and leisure.

In addition, PeaceDocs hosts a page of  links to other peace and justice Resources, a Calendar of people, places and events of current interest to peacemakers, and a collection of brief Essays where we try to reflect on these issues.

Many of these sections are works in progress and the growth of this site is an ongoing process.

We hope that we’ll learn, enjoy, teach and contribute as this site continues to grow and joins other resources in the online peacemaking community.