Peace Partnership International - About the National Peace Academy

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.

The goals for the National Peace Academy are to:

Create an interdisciplinary graduate program that intersects with and ties together the many disciplines within the social and physical sciences, the natural and life sciences, the arts and humanities, and the professional fields of engineering, business, medicine, and law.
Provide a core competency in ethics and character education, emphasizing the development of one’s own peace capacities.
Research, develop, and offer peacebuilding policy at the local, state, federal levels and action options for the peaceful resolution of domestic and international tension and conflict.
Coordinate peace studies, research, and advocacy. The academy can be a unifying force in efforts toward peace across the globe. Establish a peace library and link to other peace literature, writings, and information via the internet.
Collaborate with war colleges and military service academies to strategize peaceful ways of addressing worldwide security issues and to provide training and experiential fieldwork in peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding.
Engage with the growing peace education field in developing peace education as an integral component of education from pre-school to graduate school.

We are designing the National Peace Academy utilizing Appreciative Inquiry, an inclusive co-creative design process that calls forth from the group the vision of what is possible while drawing forth the best of what all of us have to offer. It is exciting and on the cutting edge of what is emerging in these very challenging times.

Clearly what we are doing today is not working. We are exhausting all possibilities and yet we are still at war, have the highest incarceration rate in the world, the highest homicide rate in the developed world, and struggle with a culture of violence.

We think the founding of a National Peace Academy will bring us a quantum leap closer to the society we all wish for.