[GMW
#3806] Create Departments Of Peace - World-Wide
Idea Dream - Robert
Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4201 ~
Create a US
Department of Peace - The Time For Peace Is Now
Legislation Introduced to Create a US Department of Peace For
Release: July 11, 2001 Washington, DC -- Congressman Dennis
Kucinich of Ohio today introduced legislation to create a
cabinet level agency dedicated to peacemaking and the study of
conditions that are conducive to peace.
"The time for peace is now," Congressman Kucinich said. "At
the dawn of a new millennium, there is no better time to
review age old challenges with new thinking that peace is not
only the absence of violence, but the presence of a higher
evolution of human awareness with respect, trust and integrity
toward humankind.
Our founding fathers recognized that peace was one of the
highest duties of the newly organized free and independent
states. But too often, we have overlooked the long-term
solution of peace for instant gratification of war. This
continued downward spiral of violence must stop to ensure that
future generations will live in peace."
Kucinich's legislation to create a Department of Peace focuses
on individual, group and national responsibilities of holding
peace as an organizing principle. The Department of Peace
would focus on nonmilitary peaceful conflict resolutions,
prevent violence and promote justice and democratic principles
to expand human rights.
A Peace Academy, similar to the five military service
academies, would be created: its graduates dispatched to
troubled areas around the globe to promote nonviolent dispute
resolutions.
"The challenges inherent in creating a Department of Peace are
massive," said Congressman Kucinich. "But the alternatives are
worse. Violence at home, in the schools, in the media, and
between nations has dragged down humanity. It's time to
recognize that traditional, militant objectives for peace are
not working, and the only solution is to make peace the goal
of a cabinet level agency."
SUMMARY OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACE LEGISLATION
Legislation introduced today by Congressman Dennis Kucinich to
create a Department of Peace includes the following:
Establish a cabinet-level department in the executive branch
of the Federal Government dedicated to peacemaking and the
study of conditions that are conducive to both domestic and
international peace. Headed by a Secretary of Peace, appointed
by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
The mission of the Department shall be to hold peace as an
organizing principle; endeavor to promote justice and
democratic principles to expand human rights; strengthen
nonmilitary means of peacemaking; promote the development of
human potential; work to create peace, prevent violence,
divert from armed conflict and develop new structures in
nonviolent dispute resolution; and take a proactive, strategic
approach in the development of policies that promote national
and international conflict prevention, nonviolent
intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict and
structured mediation of conflict.
The Department will create and establish a Peace Academy,
modeled after the military service academies, which will
provide a 4 year concentration in peace education. Graduates
will be required to serve 5 years in public service in
programs dedicated to domestic or international nonviolent
conflict resolution.
The principal officers of the Department, in addition to the
Secretary of Peace will include: the Under Secretary of Peace;
the Assistant Secretary for Peace Education and Training; the
Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peace Activities, the
Assistant Secretary for International Peace Activities; the
Assistant Secretary for Technology for Peace; the Assistant
Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament; the Assistant
Secretary for Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict
Resolution; the Assistant Secretary for Human and Economic
Rights; and a General Counsel.
The first day of each year, January 1st will be designated as
Peace Day in the United States and all citizens should be
encouraged to observe and celebrate the blessings of peace and
endeavor to create peace in the coming years.
Upon receipt of these texts, I asked Carolyn Hawkins, my
co-worker on these 5000 ideas, to produce a computer extract
of my ideas on the creation of Ministries of Peace. The
document (19 pages) was sent to Congressman Kucinich.
http://RobertMuller.org/topics/#Demilitarization%20&%20Disarmament
- list of ideas on Demilitarization & Disarmament
http://RobertMuller.org/ideas - lists the first 4000 ideas,
with an alphabetic index in the top section of the first page.
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Robert's
The Miracle,
Joy and Art of
Living,
Volume III - The
Seasons of Life
Chapter
7 - Return to Mother Earth
Humans continue to live after 'death', through
their children and the good they have done. They might also
leave behind a journal, correspondence, year-end family
letters and possibly books of cherished memories, successes
and anecdotes.
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