First recommendation would be to familiarize yourself with the crime of genocide and atrocities like modern day slavery. Also, exploring the role of natural resources as it relates to foreign investment in countries that are rich in natural resources offers significant insights into ongoing regional conflicts.
Visit the websites of these non-governmental organizations and advocacy groups below for more comprehensive information. Many of these sites will have a “take action” or “get involved” link that offers ideas and specific steps on how to contact legislators, host delegations, devise special events and undertake other simple but meaningful grassroots actions. After reading through some of these, you may come up with additional ideas that can help make a difference. This is great, too!
But whatever you do, get involved. Find the thing that you can do - and then do it! Because when all of us work together for good, the impossible becomes attainable and the world becomes a safer, more peaceful place.
Aegis Genocide Prevention Initiative (www.aegistrust.org)
Here are just a few faith-based groups providing humanitarian aid, advocacy and development assistance among at-risk and post-conflict societies:
National Council of Churches USA (ncccusa.org)
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (www.uua.org)
Other Humanitarian Organizations
USAID (United States Agency for International Development) (www.usaid.gov)
U.S. State Department, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (www.state.gov/g/tip)
United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) (www.ungift.org)
