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Profound Peace

Profound Peace is resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct, personal, collaborative action. We can step out of the cycle of violence and establish meaningful,...

Visionary Society

Anchorage, USA

This Project created by Visionary on May 05, 2017

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Tim King

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Profound Peace includes:

– Topics to learn about transformative responses to conflict in general. Topics on specific conflicts.
– A public event to present Profound Peace to show how we can reimagine conventional approaches to conflict.
– The formation of a Peace Brigade for any conflict, in which participants take a pledge for deep understanding of opposing sides and, most of all, to create peace in themselves and their personal life.
– Requests to Prisons and Security Guards to start taking steps to change aggression into cooperation.
– Pledges that soldiers, police, judges and lawyers can take for basic humanity and helpfulness in their profession.

Principles
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand your own role in aggression.
Active collaboration with any and all peace organizations.

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Requests for Security Guards, the Military, Courts & Prisons

Prisons: Humane Jails Everywhere
Transform Security Guards into Security Guides
Military: Reinvent your mission to Help, Build and Protect

Challenges for police, soldiers, lawyers and judges

A new kind of 'Hippocratic Oath' for to make a pledge for basic humanity and helpfulness in their profession.

Form a Profound Peace Brigade

Profound Peace Brigades are composed of 'stakeholders' in a conflict: civilians and soldiers on any and all sides. The goal is to establish genuine communication, and to act at the root level of a conflict. Participants accept the Deep Profound Peace Challenge: Become capable of peace, and put an end to war in yourself.

Offer Topics

General
Understand the causes of war. Understand meaningful responses to conflict. Understand what is simplistic peace

Specific conflicts
Hear and understand opposing views. Understand the causes of war. Understand the grievances of all sides. Understand the suffering of all sides. Discover who is engaging in aggression.

Public event

1. Present events in a public or quasi-public space.
2. Engage the local media.

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