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- Sustained goodwill creates friendship. Sustained friendship creates trust.
- Sustained trust creates empathy.
- Sustained empathy creates compassion, and Sustained compassion creates peace.
–Azim Khamisa
There is currently a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives to establish a Department of Peacebuilding. This historic measure will augment our current problem-solving options, providing practical, nonviolent solutions to the problems of domestic and international conflict. The legislation will pass from bill to law under one condition: that a wave of citizen interest rise up from the American people and make itself heard in the halls of Congress. During the 20th Century, over 100 million people lost their lives to war — most of whom were non-combatants. Now, at the dawn of the 21st century, the extent and current speed of nuclear proliferation makes the achievement of non-violent alternatives to war the most urgent need of the human race.
The Building Bridges, Not Walls – A Day of Inspirational Speakers – “Peace In” segments from Sunday, September 20, 2020, are on our YouTube Channel here. Speaker bios are here.
The United Nations Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, offered in Segment #3, is here.
Thank you to all who participated in Connecting with Congress. We have an additional co-sponsor as a direct result of an Advocacy Days Zoom meeting.
What you can do:
Take Action! Tell Congress to get behind H.R. 1111, legislation to establish a U.S. Dept. of Peacebuilding. If you call, email or otherwise contact your representative in support of a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding, please record your action!
Donate to the Department of Peacebuilding Campaign efforts here.
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work for it.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt.
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