Aug 12,2004 Walter Cronkite endorsed the DOP in an editorial Read it here.

Now, you can participate in an historic citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace (HR 1673), sponsored in the House of Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. 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. The peace that this department will uphold, promote and protect is a part of our heritage. In 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously declared the independence of the 13 colonies, and the achievement of peace was recognized as one of the highest duties of the new organization of free and independent States.

The mission of the new department will be:

1. hold peace as an organizing principle, work proactively and interactively with each branch of the Federal Government on all policy matters relating to conditions of peace
2. serve as a delegate to the National Security Council
3. call on the intellectual and spiritual wealth of the people of the United States and seek participation in its administration and in its development of policy from private, public, and nongovernmental organizations; and
4. promote the development of human potential
5. work to create peace, prevent violence, divert from armed conflict, use field-tested programs, and develop new structures in nonviolent dispute resolution
6. 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;
7. address matters both domestic and international in scope; and
8. encourage the development of initiatives from local communities, religious groups, and nongovernmental organizations.

Find a group of like hearted individuals, let your friends and neighbors know. Better yet collect signatures on the petitions available at www.dopcampaign.org and get them to your elected U.S. Government officials or visit an official yourself. (In the U.K. you cando the same to support the establishment of a Ministry for Peace.)

Please do what you can.

Department of Peace Site                                                   Read the Bill

Existing DOP Activist Groups                                            Frequently Asked Questions