A Doorway to Peace

If we lead, our leaders will follow

People often ask us what makes our Communities of Peace program different from other approaches to peace – after all, human beings have been trying to create e a peaceful world for many thousands of years.

Rather than depending on a “top down” approach, of governments, politicians, officials of any sort, designing or negotiating peace, our approach takes the position that it is the responsibility, joy and indeed mission of everyone to create a peaceful world. We've formatted this program in the hope that each person's intrinsic reason for being will be evoked, and that each person's nature will be therefore fulfilled -- rather like a flower coming to full blossom in a beautiful garden. If people are happy and fulfilled, they don't create wars.

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A Miracle at the U.S. Capitol?

On Sunday, March 25 , 2007, The Communities of Peace Foundation partnered with The Beloved Community for a peace event on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Peace Troubadour James Twyman sang, as part of a 64-day U.S. tour commemorating the Season of Peace and Nonviolence. The entire Children's Cloth of Many Colors was shown.

The Children's Cloth of Many Colors in a peace-sign pattern in front of the U.S. Capitol.

For fifteen minutes during the afternoon, the CCMC was reconfigured in the peace symbol. Something special happened during that time.

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