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AFSC works with communities worldwide to challenge injustice and build conditions for lasting peace. We are steadfast in our commitment to nonviolence and our belief in the transformative power of love to overcome conflict and oppression.

Featured Programs

Burundi: Youth & Community Empowerment

Burundi: Youth & Community Empowerment

AFSC’s Burundi Program aims to create a society where all people can enjoy peace and dignity, meet their basic needs, and make meaningful contributions to peace and community development. 

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Photo: Zareen Kamal/AFSC

Chicago Peacebuilding

Chicago Peacebuilding is peacebuilding work for the 21st Century. We work to dismantle militarist practices and support the well-being of those targeted and criminalized by state violence.

New Hampshire

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New Hampshire

AFSC’s New Hampshire Program works to nourish a growing movement of people calling for social, racial, and economic justice.

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Photo: Sameh Ruhmi

Jerusalem, Ramallah & Gaza

AFSC started working in Israel and Palestine in 1948 when the organization was asked by the United Nations to respond to the needs of those displaced during the 1948 war.

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Photo: Core-Visual

New Mexico: People and the Land

AFSC’s New Mexico program works to create systemic change in the food system to support small farmers and increase access to healthy, local food in the community, including local schools.

Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)

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Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)

The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), located in Geneva and New York, represents Quakers through Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC).

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Twin Cities Healing Justice

The Twin Cities Healing Justice program works to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline through anti-racist youth organizing, restorative practices, coalition building and centering the voices of youth of color.

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Photo: Beth Ronk

Oregon Project Voice

AFSC’s Project Voice Immigrant Rights Program advances the human rights of immigrants through alliance-building, documentation, and policy impact.

Issues

Standing with those most impacted by injustice, we work on some of the most urgent issues of our time. We use an intersectional approach to build peace and transform systems of oppression.

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Global peace

Peaceful ends can only be achieved through peaceful means. AFSC works for a future free of militarism and violence.

Prisons & policing

Prisons & policing

It’s time to end our reliance on criminalization and retribution in the U.S. We must adopt transformative alternatives rooted in healing and human dignity.

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Migration & Immigrant Rights

AFSC works for a world where all people have the power to determine where they live and the opportunity to thrive.

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Economic justice

Economies should work for all people and our planet. They should also promote thriving communities. AFSC challenges growing inequality and the corporate abuse of human rights.

Join our Campaigns

Communities in the U.S. and around the globe are working for a more just, peaceful future for all. See how you can make a difference.

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History of our Work

AFSC was founded in 1917 to create alternatives to military service during World War I. Throughout our history, we have stood with communities around the globe taking bold action to overcome injustice and build peace.

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