About Us

We are a network of member organizations, individuals and partners throughout Wisconsin, working to create a better world. WNPJ serves to promote and enhance their work, and provide opportunities for collaboration.

What we offer

The Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice (WNPJ) was founded and incorporated as a 501c3 nonprofit organization in 1991 as a coalition of activist groups and citizens of conscience within Wisconsin. Each of our member organizations operates independently. Individuals and families also join our network, and we work with partner organizations.

  • Free Movement, Inc is focused on the basic human needs and issues women are facing, when returning home from incarceration.

Mission

Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice advances a sustainable world free from violence and injustice by connecting, engaging, and strengthening member groups and serving as a catalyst for community organizing and education.

​​Our guiding principles

  • We welcome all people in a collaborative effort toward social justice.
  • We value coalition building and support grassroots efforts within our local communities.
  • We work through consensus to find common ground.
  • We respect and celebrate the dignity of all humans and all of life.
  • We uphold the virtues of compassion and nonviolence.
  • We are passionate about creating a just, vibrant, peaceful and sustainable world for ourselves and future generations.
  • Our vision of justice includes ending all systems of oppression.
  • We recognize that racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression are systemic and we challenge those oppressions in all of our work.
  • Peace is possible.

Just Transition is defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) this way: “Greening the economy in a way that is as fair and inclusive as possible to everyone concerned, creating decent work opportunities and leaving no one behind.”

Learn more from the Climate Justice Alliance

Member Organizations

Our member organizations operate independently. WNPJ serves to promote and enhance their work, and provide opportunities for collaboration.

Annual Reports

Bylaws

Revision – October 11, 2014

Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice is a 501c3 Nonprofit Organization. Please contact us if you need documentation or more information.

History

Photo by Jeff Miller / University of Wisconsin-Madison

On February 23, 1991, more than 350 people representing over 60 communities throughout the state rcrowded into the Assembly Chambers of the State Capitol to gather strength from one another in their frustration and concern about the Gulf War. ​On that day, the ground war began.

Out of that gathering arose the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice. Since that time, the Network has grown to include over 100 peace, human rights, religious, labor, and environmental organizations throughout the state.

Read more WNPJ history: 1991-2012 (PDF)