Department of Peace
This is a page about an old idea whose time has come....
Origins of Department of Peace
- 1793: Benjamin Rush, Founding Father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Peace
- 1947: Representative Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois) introduced a bill for “A Peace Division in the State Department”. 1955 to 1968: Eighty-five Senate and House of Representative bills were introduced calling for a United States Department of Peace.
This legislation was introduced into the U.S. Senate (S. 1756) and re-introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 3760) in September of 2005.
Evolving Idea
- EDUCATION ~ what would be included/excluded/questioned for curriculum on all levels of learning, including Occupational Centers and TradeTech’s. Let Love be the teacher. ~ Rumi.
- SPIRITUALITY/INTERFAITH
- RELATIONSHIPS ~ Inclusive, democratizing Education and workplace. Yan Golding, Sheri Herndon
- ECONOMY ~ Circular/Donut,
- ARTS ~ Uplifting and positive inspirations, eg. Touched by an Angel, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Dream the Impossible Dream, Imagine, Stairway to Heaven, Father and Son,seeing life from all sides as exemplified in this depiction, etc.
- GOVERNANCE ~ A bold idea to replace politicians, César Hidalgo’s TedTalk has a radical suggestion for fixing our broken political system: automate it!
- MEDIA ~ Empowering Communications, Positive and uplifting programming. Will Smith.
- ENVIRONMENTEMVIRONMENT ~ Paul Hawkin
- JUSTICE ~ What others sections would encompass your dept.
- HEALTH ~ available for ALL. Holistic, homeopathy, various healing modalities experimented/researched with allopathy when needed,
- SCIENCE ~ Neal DeGrasse Tyson, Greg Braden, Bruce Lipton.
- RESOURCES ~ Share The World’s Resources