LOBBY WASHINGTON TO CREATE A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF PEACE! "What marching through the streets was to the Sixties, walking through the halls of Congress is now." ~Marianne Williamson

Participate in an historic citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace, sponsored in the House of Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. http://www.kucinich.us/(The bills re-introduction for the 2005/2006 congressional session is forthcoming. To read our update, click here.) This bill establishes nonviolence as an organizing principle of American society, providing the U.S. President with an array of peace-building policy options for domestic and international use.

Just as the passage of the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery took years to pass; just as the nineteenth amendment providing women's suffrage took years to pass; just as the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960's took years to pass, this legislation provides substance and meaning to the political yearnings of our generation. It systematically applies the power of peace to the eradication of root causes of violence.

The Department would focus on nonmilitary peaceful conflict resolutions, prevent violence and promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights. Domestically, the Department would be responsible for developing policies which address issues such as domestic violence, child abuse, mistreatment of the elderly, and other issues of cultural violence. Internationally, the Department would gather research, analyze foreign policy and make recommendations to the President on how to address the root causes of war and intervene before violence begins, while improving national security, including the protection of human rights and the prevention and de-escalation of unarmed and armed international conflict.

In the words of president Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Politics should be the part-time profession of every American." We think he was right.

Join us now. Create a Department of Peace. We can do this.