Here are just two organizations of long standing which engage in public policy. Much of the community concern "radiates" out to this level as well; thus the selection is somewhat arbitrary.

Center for Defense Information (Organization)
CDI is a group of career military men who have come to realize that many current policy decisions are bringing us closer to war, not adding to our security. This is a well-respected secular source of technical and policy information.

Bread for the World (Organization)
This grass roots lobby begun by Art Simon has worked for a number of years, both to educate church members about the complexity of foreign aid and to influence food policy legislation. It is one of the "justice" lobbies that many church people are involved in and provides excellent training for grass roots organizing.

If you browse bibliographies, you will be overwhelmed by the amount and diversity of material available. Let us simply reiterate that education has the task of formation, information, and transformation. Much of the material that has been produced deals only with the informational aspect. Be resourceful yourselves and use people resources as often as possible. Storytelling is still one of the best forms of education. Remember, too, the four levels of awareness:

• feelings
  
• story
  
• community
  
• and only then, ideas and opinions.

Here is one more resource that puts some of those pieces together.

Transforming Violence: Linking Local and Global Peacemaking (Book)
Robert Herr and Judy Zimmerman Herr, Editors. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1998.
This collaborative effort of the Historic Peace Churches and the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) explores the biblical basis for peacemaking and practical strategies for its implementation. Doug Hostetter’s piece on FOR’s Bosnian Student Project tells of bringing 150 Bosnian students—Croatian, Muslim, and multi-ethnic—to the United States to finish their schooling which had been interrupted by war. One strength of the program was that "it was elegantly simple, it empowered individuals, it offered a positive statement of faith, and it offered a participatory model of interfaith cooperation." One Muslim student said, "I had never before met a Christian who did not want to kill me." Powerful stuff in the lives of these young people, and transformative for the families with whom they lived. This is an empowering collection of stories by people who are doing the work of peace and justice from a faith perspective.