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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.

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U.S.-Mexico Border Program

The US-Mexico Border Program advances the human rights and self-determination of migrant communities through base-building, alliance-building, policy-impact, and by documenting civil and human rights abuses.

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Asia Young People for Action

The Asia Young People for Action (AYA) initiative fosters peer-to-peer learning, transformative experiences, and collective action on structural peace-related issues.

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California Healing Justice

The California Healing Justice Program works to reduce reliance on incarceration and policing and replace them with restorative, healing practices. We concentrate on three areas: ending mass incarceration, demilitarizing police, and the promotion of healing alternatives.

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Action Center for Corporate Accountability

The Action Center for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) exposes, isolates, and reduces corporate complicity in state violence. Using economic activism and corporate social responsibility mechanisms, it targets corporations involved in mass incarceration, immigrant detention, border militarization, and Israeli apartheid. ACCA helps movements engage with large corporations on a more equal footing, build leverage to change corporate policies and practices, and limit corporations political influence and reach.

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Michigan Criminal Justice

AFSC addresses the state violence of the criminal, legal, and imprisonment systems in our communities. We disrupt the paradigm of punishment and build healing, wellness and full liberation for all.

Kenya: Peaceful Youth & Communities

Kenya: Peaceful Youth & Communities

In Kenya, AFSC works to promote a culture of peace among youth and the communities in which they live. We also work with grassroots leaders to enhance effective community and national-level engagement around issues of peace.

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.

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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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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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