The Big Picture: Why Lobbying for Legislation to Create a Department of Peacebuilding Matters

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House bill HR 808 to create a federal Department of Peacebuilding (DoP) is comprehensive, cost-effective, evidence-based and transformative legislation designed to build a culture of peace by reducing violence at all levels of society. It prescribes developing various strata of peacebuilding structure proven conducive to the nonviolent resolution of conflict. The “peace” humanity has forever craved may be possible at long last if nonviolence becomes an overarching operational organizing societal principle (what DoP is all about).

2014 Global Peace Index Released

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last week the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) released the 2014 edition of its annual Global Peace Index (GPI), which “ranks nations according to their level of peace.” The world has become less peaceful every year since 2008, highlighting the importance of better understanding conflict and violence risk and greater investment in peacebuilding.

Action Tool: Support SB 2078: An Act Promoting Restorative Justice! (MA)

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Join us for another Virtual Town Hall on Restorative Justice! Last year, The Peace Alliance and Restorative Justice on The Rise played a role in supporting a successful passage in Colorado of the Restorative Justice Pilot Project (now law)! Once again, we are working steadfastly to support a similar effort in Massachussetts, with SB-2078: An Act Promoting Restorative Justice Practices.

Summer of PROMISE!

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Friends, this Summer is a very important one for the Youth PROMISE Act. Momentum has been building in Congress. Our goal over the Summer is to get thousands of phone calls to Senators and Members of the House of Representatives to pass the bill. We need YOU to help reach that goal! We are asking you to commit to calling all three of your federally-elected Congressmembers, and to commit to enrolling at least three others to do the same.

Tell Congress: Fund International Peacebuilding

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Right now, Committees in the House and Senate are drafting the State Department and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bills, and this year, because of how Congress has scheduled votes, there will be virtually no opportunities for amendments. That means that we have to act right now to make sure important Peacebuilding programs will be fully funded in 2015. Your voice matters.

“Reclaiming Our Democracy” Book Discussion Group w/ Author

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Are you ready to be inspired? If so, join The Peace Alliance for a three session national book discussion group via conference call with author Sam Daley-Harris. Sam will lead us in a discussion of the 20th anniversary edition of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break between People and Government. Read the book along with others around the nation and world and then join in with Sam for a global conversation. Sign-up today!