Call Congress: Youth PROMISE Act & US Dept. of Peacebuilding

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As part of our Lobby Days DC, Peace Alliance grassroots supporters from around the country are visiting our nation's Capitol over the next two days. They are advocating to their elected officials to support the Youth PROMISE Act, a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding and peacebuilding in general.

Tell Congress: Support International Violence Against Women Act

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The International Violence Against Women Act, H.R. 3571/S. 2307, formalizes the existence of a Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in USAID and the State Department Office of Global Women's Issues while expanding their role and powers. Under current law, both offices could be eliminated on a whim by an unfriendly President.

Become a Sponsoring Member of The Peace Alliance

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By becoming a Sponsoring Member of The Peace Alliance, you are upping your commitment to building a world where peace, and the policies and work of peacebuilding are national and global priorities. From current crises in Irag, Syria and many other global hotspots, to the serious struggles of violence faced in our own communities here at home, we must focus more heavily on solutions that will pivot us towards approaches that actually bring healing and restoration. We need your help to do it.

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).