Box 271 Nyack, New York The Fellowship of Reconciliation The Fellowship of Reconciliation is a non-profit religious membership association with approximately 12,000 members in the United States. it is affiliated with the International The Fellowship of Reconciliation, and through it with other national groups in some 25 countries around the world. The Fellowship was organized in England in 1914, and in this country the following year. The FOR is pre-eminently a fellowship of men and women who have rejected war completely and dedicated themselves to the search for non-violent, reconciling ways of resolving conflicts between individuals, groups, and nations. Members are expected to, and do, work out the purposes of the organization in their own communities and in their lives, and are found throughout the country in positions of active leadership in movements for peace, civil liberties, racial justice, abolition of capital punishment, and other similar causes. Members of the Fellowship through their contributions also support a national staff of 26 men and women, and 16 volunteer and semi-volunteer field workers. This staff works constantly at developing the Fellowship's purposes in terms of education, training and action. Education. Through the publication and distribution of a semi-monthly magazine Fellowship(now in its 26th year)and a large volume of leaflets, pamphlets, books, tape recordings and films, the Fellowship makes available informative, analytical and inspirational material on peace and related matters. Its traveling secretaries carry a heavy load of speaking and discussion engagements, working in churches, college campuses, and community groups. Because of its roots in the Christian community, a major emphasis has been and continues to be the effort to arouse Christians to the special obligation laid on them to be peacemakers through the use of love, forgiveness, and the willingness to suffer rather than inflict suffering. Partly this is done by its own secretaries, partly through the Church Peace Mission, in which the Fellowship plays a major role, partly through the efforts of affiliated peace fellowships in most of the leading denominations in the country. The Fellowship itself is a [non-creedal], interdenominational, interfaith group accepting into membership all those who can commit themselves in good faith to its Statement of Purpose. Training. The Fellowship's position has never been that passive surrender to evil, but rather of the active search for more effective means of resisting evil. Through the years its staff and members have experimented with the kind techniques associated with the Gandhian movement in India and with the recent successful nonviolent assaults on racism in the American south. Both at its national headquarters in Nyack, New York, and in the field, its staff has directed training sessions designed to equip men and women with a complete understanding of the (over)