Peace Partnership International is collaborating with The Weatherhead School of Management at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University and The Biosophical Institute to launch a design process leading to establishment of a National Peace Academy.
You can find out more about the National Peace Academy initiative at its website.
Since the April 2008 National Peace Academy Vision Meeting in Cleveland, we have been delighted with the overwhelmingly positive response. We have made great strides in putting an infrastructure in place for the design process and have set a date for the Global Stakeholder Summit, a critical stage in the design process.
Our National Peace Academy initiative is not quite two months old yet and already the task teams set up at the April Vision Meeting in Cleveland are hard at work developing a list of stakeholders to be invited to the Global Stakeholders Summit next April, researching peace training and education programs and curricula already out there as part of a needs assessment for the National Peace Academy, and developing a case statement and other materials to support outreach and fundraising.
"Change" is the big buzz word in the United States this year. Why? Because Americans recognize the need for a serious rethink in the way this country operates, both domestically and internationally. Troubled with a trillion dollar war, a homicide rate 10 times that of other leading industrial nations, and a prison population that includes 1 in every 100 citizens, Americans are seeking solutions that are less costly and more sustainable.
That is why, in 2009, the first-ever National Peace Academy will be formally launched in the United States.
Peace Partnership International along with Case Western Reserve
University and The Biosophical Institute comprise the consortium that
is convening a National Peace Academy design process.
