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Profiles of Peace
One way to facilitate a culture of peace is to use the power of story to demonstrate what peace looks like in practice. These Profiles of Peace are intended to do just that. If you have a Profile you'd like to have us consider for this space, please send an email describing your idea, and, if it looks like a fit, we'll ask you to write it up for possible publication here.
Elise Boulding: The Legacy of a Peacemaker
Mary Lee Morrison, Founding Director of Pax Educare, Inc., offers this Profile of Peace. Both Mary Lee Morrison and Elise Boulding are on the Advisory Board for the National Peace Academy.
"Elise Boulding has been called the “matriarch” of the twentieth century peace research movement. Boulding, sociologist emeritus from Dartmouth College, is noted for her scholarly accomplishments in three key academic areas of study -- peace, women and futures. She was in “on the ground floor” of each of these emerging disciplines and eventually played pivotal leadership roles within each."
Treasures of Discovery and Peace along the Silk Road
Marla Mossman travels the ancient Silk Road in search of her roots. Along the way she finds peace. Marla shares her discoveries through her photography and writings. She says: “People involved in the culture of peace hold notions of peace as practical and necessary. We don’t have to be a perfected deity in order to achieve a sense of enlightenment. We are already divine in the moment. That’s the kind of positive energy we should start from in our institutions. That’s what the culture of peace is about.”
Robert M. Weir provides Marla Mossman's Profile of Peace.
The mission at World Peace Emerging
is to be the driving force behind real change. The strategy is to
champion people with working solutions, who are already making strides,
so that they can expand their reach. World Peace Emerging also publishes a monthly magazine in a free,
digital format featuring inspirational news, stories, and color photos.
Face Up to Peace is a project of Alive Today Enterprises, which provides an opportunity for people from around the world to creatively share the vision of peace. Through mask making and related interaction, the organization works to support and raise awareness of efforts to create Departments of Peace (DOP) and Ministries for Peace (MFP) in governments around the world.
The term Wo-lakota means peaceful, responsible and caring - a
compassionate and generous people. Wolakota Foundation encourages
people to step forward in recognizing the value of their own cultural
roots and in so doing, reconnect with the strengths and wisdom that all
traditional cultures hold in common - our connection to each other and
to the Earth.
Peace Registry Manager Theresa McGallicher provides this Profile of Peace.
Montana. More than 147,000 square miles, the fourth largest state in
the nation. Eight cities, 56 counties and nine Indian reservations.
Eight hundred thousand people with a reputation for being
individualists live in this Big Sky Country, which commands 13 hours to
drive from the Canadian border in the northwest to the Wyoming border
in the southeast. There is but one Congressman in the U.S. House of
Representatives and one key advocate for the U.S. Department of Peace
and Nonviolence.
Robert M. Weir provides Debi Strong's Profile of Peace.
Radical Conferencing for Crime and Conflict Management
“We do the incredibly radical thing of getting people to talk to each
other,” says Lauren Abramson, Ph.D., founder and executive director of
the Community Conferencing Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The people
she and her staff of five bring into discussion are criminal offenders,
their victims and the supporters of each. The forum is face-to-face and
everyone has an equal voice. The purpose is to introduce dialogue, gain
understanding, create win-win resolution and, ultimately, transform
attitudes.
Robert M. Weir provides Lauren Abramson's Profile of Peace.