Peace movements -- Middle East -- History -- Sources

The papers of Eli and Sybil Jones, 19th century Quaker missionaries, most notably to the Middle East where they established missions on Mt. Lebanon and in Ramallah, Palestine; the correspondence of Charles and Ellen Jones, also 19th century Quaker missionaries in Ramallah; and the letters of Quaker James Parnell Jones, son of Eli and Sybil Jones, who fought in the Civil War.

Founded in 1987, the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East grew out of three interreligious study tours to the Middle East and exploratory consultations with more than 100 Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders between 1985 and 1987.