P5Y :: Give Peace a Deadline
It's not just music that gets us out of bed in the morning. Peace In 5 Years is a bold global movement to create world peace by 2014. P5Y changes global perceptions about what peace actually is and how to attain it. P5Y clearly defines world peace, places a deadline on attaining it, + invites all people of vision + action--including governments, non-government organizations, businesses + individuals -- to take the actions that create peace.
The P5Y movement asks the question:
Do you agree that achieving world peace in next 5 years would be good?
If you answer "yes," the next question becomes,
What are you willing to do about it in the next 5 years?
Basically you're one of these categories:
- You moralling support with little or no commitment to action
- You're willing to adopt new attitudes + behaviors + incorporate them into daily life... or
- You're repurposing to give your Dharma to align with the P5Y movement.
Each answer is ok.
For P5Y, peace is not a fluffy term or about just being nice, nice.
Peace IS NOT the absence of conflict or disagreement. Peace = Safe Conflict. War = Violent Conflict. They're just different approaches with very different values + price tags.
P5Y is about educating + establishing a new context for human conflict that removes violence as an acceptable means for dealing with conflict among the family of nations. This is a radical departure from traditional notions of the peace movement, in which organizations typically engage in a perpetual cycle of protest + activism that has become cliched, polarized, rarely making true advances towards a more peaceful world.
In fact, some so-called humanitarian organizations have a distinct disincentive to attain peace because it would mean the end of their fundraising capability, positions + prestige of the leadership.
What might at first glance seem to be youthful naivety or radical over-simplification, P5Y is in reality a completely new perspective that refuses to accept established premises. P5Y is about tapping into the deep, often hidden or suppressed, wish of nearly every person that the world would be a safer + more fulfilling place to live for everyone, despite what they have been told is possible or impossible.
P5Y is over in 5 years.no matter what. Success or failure in attaining total global peace is not the most important factor in the success of P5Y. It's about changing perceptions, asking deep questions, + providing a means for people to take effective action, no matter how great or small.
Watch the P5Y Launch Video as an introduction. For more, visit P5Y dot Org to get started. Here's a free condensed eBook edition of Give Peace A Deadline here (or purchase from Amazon dot Com in trade paperback format or for Kindle.)
Your Dharma can contribute to creating a safer world to play in (+ actually save lives!)
