Department of Peace Conference

Blessed are the peacemakers Especially today

Make sense. Make peace. Make history.

Join us in our nation's capitol to lobby for a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, as the legislation is re-introduced in the House of Representatives as a tribute to victims of September 11th.

From a culture of peace comes a world without war.

FEATURING

Walter Cronkite Azim Kahamiza Dennis Kucinich Marianne Williamson Patch Adams Barbara Marx Hubbard

Join us for a conversation with legendary journalist Walter Cronkite and Congressman Dennis Kucinich about building a culture of peace, and more specifically the Department of Peace.

John Titus, from September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/ will share at a nondenominational service on Sunday Sept. 11th.

contact: info@dopcampaign.org

Going on the Peace Path

by Michael Meade Going on the ‘war path’ involves raising a clamor of accusations, stirring up elemental fears and basic instincts for protection as well as aggression. Going to war calls on collective feelings of fight and flight that are just under the surface of human exchanges. Once stirred, the winds of war carry the heat of furor into all fields of life, penetrating homes and offices, farms and plants, schools and churches. The idea of war converts all fields to battlefields; a radical condition that supercedes other concerns and can convert all roads and networks into channels of the warpath. While the super-charged atmosphere of war spreads quickly and widely, paths of peace develop more slowly and require a specific attention for finding ideas and places of refuge. Each attempt at peace means creating a new sense of sanctuary. Just as the war path involves the fashioning of weapons, the paths of peace require the reinvention of sanctuary. Peace is a re-creation of refuge at the edges of conflict. Either path can require a great sacrifice on the part of individuals. Whereas the call to war quickly becomes collective and general, the paths of peace involve a ‘calling’ to something uniquely individual in a person. War is a collective effort that can evoke heroic responses from individuals. The call to peace is heard in the deepest areas of the soul, where character is formed and the sense of culture as refuge originates. It must have been a keen awareness of the differences between the war path and the paths of peace that caused tribal people like the Winnebago to elect two chiefs instead of one. Read Entire Article More Articles