There is a standard higher than national victory.
Principles for soldiers
– There is a standard higher than national victory.
– Take responsibility for your actions as a soldier.
– Be sensitive to your own humanity and the humanity of your opponents.
– Accept costs to oneself. Be willing to sacrifice.
– Understand the causes of the conflict and the suffering, grievances and needs of all sides.
– Join with friend and foe, soldier and civilian.
Pledge for civilians
– Understand the causes of the conflict, and the suffering, grievances and needs of all sides.
– Recognize your own part in creating conflict (including what you do for work, entertainment and in your daily life). Repent for your own brutality.
– Put an end to war in yourself. Become capable of peace.
– Find a deeper resolution and transform the conflict situation itself.
– Look at evil with the eyes of a mother.