"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. 

This process began in April 2008 with a Vision Meeting at Case and is now moving ahead at full throttle toward a Global Stakeholder Summit in spring 2009.

  David Cooperrider of Case facilitates the Vision Meeting
using Appreciative Inquiry

Elise Boulding, who led the nationwide campaign in the 1970s for a National Peace Academy, told the Cleveland Vision Meeting gathering, "This is the most important thing we can be doing right now."

For more information, visit the National Peace Academy website .
 

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