As an HRF minister, I am inspired to learn, live, and teach the twelve HRF principles. As a parent, and as a man of conscience, I am committed to live by the principles of Peace, Justice, and Nonviolence.

Recently, I sat in the midst of Dennis Kucinich, Marianne Williamson, Michael Negler, Van Jones, Lynn McMullen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and  Marshall Rosenberg. Collectively, they galvanized a passion in me to focus my ministry to support this Department of Peace process they were proposing, and ultimately, change the world. My work, as a minister, is to take a leadership role to create the common ground within our minds, hearts, and communities, throughout the world, to build a force of consciousness founded on the principles of Peace, Justice, and Nonviolence.

Out of our thinking we create beliefs.  From those beliefs, we build expectations which then lead to attitudes.  Our attitudes dictate our behaviors. As we build a pattern of behaviors, we create a record of performance. My goal is to learn, live, and teach the principles of Peace, Justice, and Nonviolence and support each person who joins with me to step up to changing the violence in our world with our thinking, beliefs, expectations, attitudes, behaviors and performance, by first recognizing and engaging an Inner Department of Peace.

I am offering a half day workshop which you and your organization can use to discover and build Departments of Peace in your minds and hearts, and at your dining tables and board rooms.  As you and your organizations engage with me in this process, the organizations begin to develop organizational Departments of Peace. Out of this process, we will be introducing the DOP to the city, county, and state governments. 

As cities across the country develop and integrate this program into their policies and priorities, the United States Congress will ultimately, naturally, choose to create the nation's Department of Peace. The polarizing adventure of our previous eight year election cycle psychologically tore me from limb to limb.  Out of that experience, I attended a conference promoting legislation to establish a Cabinet level US Department of Peace (DOP).  The experience rekindled my hope, and now I want to pass that hope along to others. The Department of Peace will address global and home-based community issues.  

The international focus is on nonmilitary peaceful conflict resolution, the prevention of violence and the promotion of justice and democratic principles that expand human rights.  At home, in our communities, DOP is to address gang and domestic violence, education, media-violence, child abuse, mistreatment of elderly, and other issues of environmental and cultural violence.

Funding for DOP is projected to be 2% of the U.S. Defense Budget, providing $8 billion.  Much of this would be directed into local communities. Internationally, the funds are to be used to gather research, analyze foreign policy, and by law, make recommendations to the President and Secretaries of State and Defense.  The focus will be how to address the root causes of war and propose methods of intervention before violence begins.

The Department of Peace vision embraces living and creating in a community and country whose organizing principles are Peace, Justice and Nonviolence. We are not alone on this planet here. There was an international gathering in the United Kingdom following the September Department of Peace Conference. Canada is also in the peace network.

You now have the opportunity to take a stand for, as well as witness a Personal/Cabinet Level Department of Peace Resolution.  People are already signing this resolution here in the U.S. and in France and it is being carried to who knows how many other places.  As people experience the significance of taking this witnessed stand, some will want to share those experiences and others will want to hear about them.  

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