{"id":14418,"date":"2018-11-21T19:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=14418"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:37:46","slug":"is-a-u-s-department-of-peace-a-realistic-political-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=14418","title":{"rendered":"Is a U.S. Department of Peace a realistic political goal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dept.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dept-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dept-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dept.png 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 46%;\">\n<p>Anne Creter, the author of the article listed below about the Toronto Conference, responds as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need a whole new system of governance devoted to the culture of peace.<\/p>\n<p>One logical way would be to enhance the existing global movement calling for governmental Departments and Infrastructure for Peace (I4P) worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current U.S. bill in Congress (H.R.1111) to establish a Department of Peacebuilding is a great example of your points. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/115\/bills\/hr1111\/BILLS-115hr1111ih.pdf \">https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/115\/bills\/hr1111\/BILLS-115hr1111ih.pdf<\/a>  and <a href=\"https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/issues-advocacy\/department-of-peace\/ \"> https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/issues-advocacy\/department-of-peace\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UN Development Programme has much evidence of governmental I4P effectiveness in certain countries where they are operational and have been shown to reduce violence. (Journal of Peacebuilding &#038; Development Special I4P Issue, volume 7, Number 3, 2012 ISSN: 1542-3166).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So let us develop a viable institutional framework for peace. Let us advocate our legislators for governmental Departments &#038; I4P NOW.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\">Here are the CPNN articles on this subject:<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=23783\">USA: Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2021 deserves support<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21876\">Why I Work for a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding With Its Rich History<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=16623\">Marianne Williamson: U.S. needs Department of Peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=14048\">2018 \u201cWorld Beyond War\u201d Toronto Conference Included Workshop on Departments and Infrastructures for Peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 Links for the following articles published prior to 2015 do not work because they were made by a version of PERL programming that is no longer supported. With three easy steps, you can find the article by its number.  First, click on it before returning to this page. Your browser will say that the article is not available but in the address listed you can see that it was located at ViewArticle=xxxx where xxxx is the number of the article. Returning to this page, then click <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.cpnn-world.org\/\">here<\/a> for the listing of all years.  Then click on the year that contains the number for the article you seek. It will send you to the page where you can easily search for the article by its title. \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=454\">Creating culture of peace is goal of New Mexico Senate Bill 374<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=139\">Kucinich Prepares for Peace<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Creter, the author of the article listed below about the Toronto Conference, responds as follows: &#8220;We need a whole new system of governance devoted to the culture of peace. One logical way would be to enhance the existing global movement calling for governmental Departments and Infrastructure for Peace (I4P) worldwide. &#8220;The current U.S. bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=14418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is a U.S. Department of Peace a realistic political goal?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-democratic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37232,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions\/37232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}